Michelle Zatlyn (born July 1979) is a Canadian businesswoman. She is the co-founder, president, and chief operating officer of American content delivery network provider and cybersecurity firm Cloudflare.
Personal life and education
Michelle Zatlyn was born in July 1979
in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada where she grew up.
She attended Carlton Comprehensive High School where she was once the captain of the basketball team.
She graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 2001 and then got a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.
Zatlyn is married and has two children.
She lives in
San Francisco.
Career
After a summer internship at
Google and a stint as a product manager at
Toshiba,
Zatlyn joined the founding team of Toronto-based startup I Love Rewards (later
Achievers), a global employee rewards program.
She 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.
Speaking about her co-founding of Cloudflare, Zatlyn 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 of; 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, in September 2021.
She is also a member of the cybersecurity team of
Aspen Institute.
Recognition
Zatlyn was named as one of
Fortune magazine's "40 Under 40" (2017)
and
Forbes "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 of the World Economic Forum.
estimated her net worth at billion.
Zatlyn was also listed among the world's richest self-made women by Forbes in 2024.
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