Michelle zatlyn biography net worth

Michelle Zatlyn is co-founder, president, and chief operating officer of the cybersecurity firm Cloudflare. She also serves on the company&#;s board of directors.

Zatlyn was born in in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada.

She was raised in Prince Albert with her sisters by her father, a lawyer, and her mother, a teacher.

Michelle zatlyn biography Michelle Zatlyn born July is a Canadian businesswoman. She is the co-founder, president, chief operating officer and a board member of American content delivery network provider and cybersecurity firm Cloudflare. After a summer internship at Google and a stint as a product manager at Toshiba , [10] [11] Zatlyn joined the founding team of Toronto-based startup I Love Rewards later Achievers , a global employee rewards program. 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 data centres, 12 million domains and more than employees.

She went to school at Prince Albert’s Ecole Holy Cross before attending Carlton Comprehensive High School, where she was the captain of the basketball team. As a teenager, Zatlyn worked in her father’s law office. She also spent a summer as a camp counselor at a special needs summer camp.

Zatlyn commented on her childhood, saying, “I was a very ambitious student and really lucky to have great teachers who supported me and parents and siblings who were cheerleaders along the way.”

She says being ambitious and pursuing opportunities is a part of her DNA.

When asked about her first-ever business idea, Zatlyn says, “I created a board game in my junior achievement class, which was my first exposure to learning to create something that people wanted.”

In , Zatlyn married an entrepreneur from Oakville, now have two children.

Once upon a time, Zatlyn dreamed of becoming a doctor.

That is, until she discovered her passion for an open and secure Internet. So, she built CloudFlare, a web performance and security company that launched in , along with two Harvard Business School friends, Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway. Today the company joins the unicorns with a billion-dollar valuation.

As head of user experience, Zatlyn is raking in the accolades: She was named one of &#;s &#;Women Who Rule Silicon Valley&#; by Elle magazine; a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, which also called CloudFare a Technology Pioneer; and Wall Street Journal selected CloudFlare as the Most Innovative Internet Technology company today.