Cloudflare welcomes Mark Hawkins to its Board of Directors

– USA, CA –  Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today announced the election of Mark Hawkins to its Board of Directors at the 2022 AGM.

“We’re honored to welcome Mark to Cloudflare’s Board of Directors. Mark brings an exceptional background in financial operations for enterprise technology to our board, having helped companies like Salesforce, Autodesk, Dell, and HP successfully grow and scale, and I am looking forward to leveraging his expertise as we continue in our mission to help build a better Internet,” said co-founder and CEO, Matt Prince.

Mark Hawkins joins the other Board members including:

• Scott Sandell, NEA Managing General Partner;
• Carl Ledbetter, CEO SimpleRose;
• Maria Eitel, Nike Foundation Founder, and former Co-Chair;
• Mark Anderson, CEO Alteryx;
• Katrin Suder, Chair of the Advisory Council on Digitalization to the German Federal Government;
• Matt Prince, Co-Founder and CEO, Cloudflare;
• Michelle Zatlyn, Co-Founder, President, and COO, Cloudflare.

About Mark Hawkins

During his more than 7 year career at Salesforce, Mark Hawkins helped the company grow its revenue from $4 billion to $26 billion, eventually rising to President and CFO. Hawkins will lend his 35+ years of experience leading finance organizations at global software and technology companies including Salesforce, Autodesk, Logitech, Dell, and Hewlett Packard to support Cloudflare on its continued path of growth.

“The Internet is now indispensable to our daily lives, whether we’re using it to do business, connecting with loved ones, or relying on it to secure our infrastructure. As the company operating one of the world’s largest networks, and bringing fast, reliable, secure, efficient, and private Internet to some of the largest organizations in the world, I believe that Cloudflare is the future of the Internet,” said Mark Hawkins. “I’ve long been impressed by Cloudflare’s rapid product innovation, and I look forward to working with a team and board that’s committed to helping to build a better Internet for all of us.”

In addition to his new role with Cloudflare, Hawkins currently serves as a board member for Toast, Plaid, DataRobot, and Secure Works. He is the recipient of the 2021 Lifetime Achievement award from the San Francisco Business Times Bay Area CFO of the Year and inducted into the CFO Hall of Fame.

Mark Hawkins holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Colorado, a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University, and he completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

About Cloudflare

Cloudflare, Inc. is on a mission to help build a better Internet. Cloudflare’s suite of products protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures 2018 list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in 2019. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Cloudflare has offices in Austin, TX, Champaign, IL, New York, NY, San Jose, CA, Seattle, WA, Washington, D.C., Toronto, Dubai, Lisbon, London, Munich, Paris, Beijing, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.

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