McGill University to Harvard Business School
Michelle Zatlyn completed her bachelor of science in chemistry from McGill University in Montreal before working in operational roles at Toshiba and Google. She subsequently attended Harvard Business School, where she met Matthew Prince.
The Co-Founding of Cloudflare
Zatlyn played a pivotal role in refining Cloudflare’s business model—convincing skeptical venture capitalists that enterprise-grade DDoS protection and CDN caching could be democratized to every website for free.
Public Scale & Board Leadership
Under Zatlyn’s leadership, Cloudflare expanded globally into edge compute (Workers), zero trust enterprise security, and AI inference (Workers AI), while Zatlyn also serves on the board of directors of Atlassian.
