Michelle Zatlyn is co-founder, president, and chief operating officer of the cybersecurity firm

Cloudflare Cloudflare, Inc. is an American content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company, founded in 2009. It primarily acts as a reverse proxy between a website's visitor and the Cloudflare customer's hosting provider. Its headquarters are in San ...

. She also serves on the company's

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Early life and education

Zatlyn was raised in

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, Canada. She graduated from

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...

with a

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degree in chemistry in 2001 and then got a

Master of Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

from

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

Career

After working at

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and

Toshiba , commonly known as Toshiba and stylized as TOSHIBA, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure system ...

, Zatlyn joined the startup I Love Rewards (later Achievers), a global employee rewards program. Zatlyn co-founded Cloudflare with Harvard Business School classmates Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway in 2009. She sits on Cloudflare's board and serves as the company's president and COO. In speaking about her co-founding of Cloudflare, she states:

When we came up with Cloudflare, I knew nothing about internet security, but I care a lot about liking what I'm doing. I knew if I could help create internet security, that's something I could work hard for and be proud f 10 years later, we have 165 data centres, 12 million domains and more than 800 employees.

Zatlyn was appointed to the board of directors for Australian software company,

Atlassian Atlassian Corporation () is an Australian software company that develops products for software developers, project managers and other software development teams. The company is domiciled in Delaware, with global headquarters in Sydney, Australi ...

, in September 2021. She is a member of the Cybersecurity team of the

Aspen Institute The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1949 as the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. The institute's stated aim is the realization of "a free, just, and equitable society" through seminars, policy programs ...

Awards

Zatlyn was named as one of ''

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'' magazine's "40 Under 40" (2017) and "50 Self-Made Women" (2021); she was also nominated as C100's "Icon of Canadian Entrepreneurship" (2019). As of 2021, she is a member of the

Young Global Leaders Forum of Young Global Leaders, or Young Global Leaders (YGL), was created by Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum. The YGL, a non-profit organization managed from Geneva, Switzerland, is under the supervision of the Swiss government ...

of the

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References

External links

Cloudflare’s Michelle Zatlyn on getting funding for crazy ideas
- TechCrunch Disrupt 2020 interview - September 17, 2020 {{DEFAULTSORT:Zatlyn, Michelle Year of birth missing (living people) Living people McGill University alumni Harvard Business School alumni Chief operating officers Women corporate executives Canadian women business executives World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Cloudflare people