Cloudflare vs PepsiCo: Founders, CEOs and History

Cloudflare

Founded

2009

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Current CEO

Matthew Prince

Employees

5,156

PepsiCo

Founded

1965

Headquarters

Purchase, New York, United States

Current CEO

Ramon Laguarta

Employees

306,000

Cloudflare

• Matthew Prince

  Matthew Prince is Cloudflare's co-founder, CEO, and board chair. In 2004 he and Lee Holloway built Project Honey Pot, which let website owners track spammers harvesting email addresses but could not stop them.

• Michelle Zatlyn

  Michelle Zatlyn is Cloudflare's co-founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer, and a member of its board. She met Matthew Prince at Harvard Business School, where the two developed the business plan that became Cloudflare in 2009.

• Lee Holloway

  Lee Holloway co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 and was its first lead engineer and systems architect. He had earlier built Project Honey Pot with Matthew Prince starting in 2004, and he designed much of Cloudflare's early software infrastructure.

PepsiCo

• Caleb Bradham

  Caleb Bradham created "Brad's Drink" at his New Bern pharmacy in 1898, renamed it Pepsi-Cola and incorporated the Pepsi-Cola Company in 1902.

• Donald M. Kendall

  Donald M. Kendall led Pepsi-Cola and engineered its 1965 merger with Frito-Lay to form PepsiCo, which he ran as CEO until 1986.

• Herman W. Lay

  Herman W. Lay (1909-1982) started his career as a snack food salesman. In 1932, he opened a snack food operation in Nashville, Tennessee, eventually purchasing the manufacturer and renaming it H.W. Lay & Company.

Cloudflare

1. Matthew Prince2009–present

   Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chair

   Co-founded Cloudflare in 2009, led it through its September 2019 NYSE IPO, and has grown annual revenue past $2 billion (2025) while expanding from web security into Zero Trust, developer, and AI services.

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2. Michelle Zatlyn2009–present

   Co-Founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer

   Co-founded Cloudflare in 2009 with Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway and, as President and COO, has led operations and company-building as Cloudflare scaled to more than 5,000 employees.

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3. Thomas Seifert2017–present

   Chief Financial Officer

   As CFO, he consistently delivered high revenue growth while carefully controlling capital expenditures, allowing Cloudflare to heavily invest in its serverless Edge computing network.

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PepsiCo

1. D. Wayne Calloway1986–1996

   Chief Executive Officer

   He more than doubled PepsiCo's revenues during his tenure and heavily invested in the restaurant division before it was later spun off.

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2. Roger Enrico1996–2001

   Chief Executive Officer

   He dramatically simplified the company's structure, allowing it to focus resources on its core grocery and convenience store distribution networks.

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3. Steven Reinemund2001–2006

   Chief Executive Officer

   He oversaw significant international expansion and revenue growth, setting a strong operational foundation before handing leadership to Nooyi.

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4. Indra Nooyi2006–2018

   Chief Executive Officer

   Under her 12-year tenure as CEO, PepsiCo's revenue grew by more than 80%, and she fundamentally reshaped the company's identity from a junk-food purveyor to a diversified global food and beverage giant.

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5. Ramon Laguarta2018–present

   Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer

   He sustained strong organic revenue growth and protected operating margins through historically challenging supply chain conditions, while committing the company to major sustainability and packaging reduction goals.

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Cloudflare

• Human Native2026Undisclosed
• Astro Technology Company2026Undisclosed
• VoidZero2026Undisclosed
• Replicate2025Undisclosed
• Nefeli Networks2024Undisclosed
• Baselime2024Undisclosed

PepsiCo

• poppi2025$1.9B
• SodaStream International2018$3.2B
• The Quaker Oats Company (including Gatorade)2001$13.4B
• Tropicana Products1998$3.3B