Founder Profile
Michelle Zatlyn
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Michelle Zatlyn?
Michelle Zatlyn is a founder of Cloudflare, Inc., which was founded in 2009 with Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway.
- Company founded
- Cloudflare, Inc.
- Founded
- 2009
- Co-founders
- Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway
Background
Michelle Zatlyn is Canadian and studied chemistry at McGill University before working in product and business roles at companies including Google and Toshiba. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School, where she met Matthew Prince and co-wrote the business plan that became Cloudflare. Her focus since 2009 has been operations, go-to-market, and building the company's organization.
Founding Story
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. She has led go-to-market, operations, and company-building functions as Cloudflare grew from a startup into a public company with more than 5,000 employees.
Michelle Zatlyn was born in 1979 in Prince Albert.