Cloudflare names Mark Hawkins to Board of Directors

KUALA LUMPUR, June 10 (Bernama) -- Cloudflare Inc, the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, announced that Mark Hawkins, former President and Chief Financial Officer of Salesforce, was elected to the company's board of directors at the Cloudflare 2022 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

Hawkins will lend his over 35 years of experience leading finance organisations at global software and technology companies including Salesforce, Autodesk, Logitech, Dell, and Hewlett Packard to support Cloudflare on its continued path of growth.

“We're honoured to welcome Mark to Cloudflare’s Board of Directors,” said co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince in a statement.

“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.”

Meanwhile, Hawkins said: “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 organisations in the world, I believe that Cloudflare is the future of the Internet.

“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.

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.

He joins the other members of Cloudflare’s board of directors, which include NEA Managing General Partner Scott Sandell; SimpleRose CEO Carl Ledbetter; Nike Foundation Founder and former Co-Chair Maria Eitel; and, Alteryx CEO Mark Anderson.

More details at www.cloudflare.com.

-- BERNAMA