Michelle Zatlyn

Michelle Zatlyn holds a deeply strategic background in product management and corporate scaling. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School, where she met Matthew Prince, and previously gained highly rigorous operational experience working at Google and Toshiba. This elite background in managing massive corporate product launches and structuring early-stage business plans provided the essential operational and financial foundation required to transform Cloudflare from a student project into a global tech giant.

Michelle Zatlyn is the Co-Founder and President of Cloudflare, responsible for overseeing the company's global operations, engineering, and the continuous expansion of its physical network infrastructure. Alongside Matthew Prince, Zatlyn developed the original concept for Project Honeytrap while they were students at Harvard Business School, and she was instrumental in the critical decision to pivot the company's technology from email security to web performance and DDoS mitigation. Zatlyn has led the complex logistical and legal efforts required to negotiate peering agreements and lease space in colocation facilities across 120 countries, building the physical foundation that allows Cloudflare to process over 100 million HTTP requests per second. Her operational leadership has been critical in scaling the company's engineering teams and maintaining the high availability and reliability of the network as it has grown to power roughly 20% of the entire internet.