Cloudflare opens its fourth EMEA office in Paris
Cloudflare has appointed Boris Lecoeur as Head of France to lead the company's expansion in the country. The Paris office joins existing Cloudflare locations in London, Munich, and Lisbon, making it the fourth in the EMEA region. The move is aimed at supporting growing customer demand, recruiting local talent, and building on the company's existing success across the region.
Lecoeur brings over two decades of technology experience to the role, including nine years spent opening and growing Amazon Web Services' France office. During that time, he advised companies across various industries and sizes on migrating from on-premise infrastructure to cloud and SaaS architectures. He observed that this transition has significantly increased the complexity of modern IT environments, which now often span public cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployments. This shift is pushing enterprises to rethink how they address security, performance, and reliability at the network layer, he notes.
Why Lecoeur joined Cloudflare
Lecoeur cites four main factors behind his decision to join the company.
Customer base and growth
Cloudflare currently services more than 3.2 million Internet properties globally, including approximately 16 percent of the Fortune 1000. The customer base spans the public sector, enterprises, and startups, with thousands of new customers signing up daily.
The global network
Cloudflare's network spans more than 200 cities in over 100 countries. It sees more than 1 billion unique IP addresses pass through it every day, acting as a learning system that adapts to threats and optimizes itself for all customers. The network operates within 100 milliseconds of 99 percent of the Internet-connected population in the developed world—compared to a blink of an eye at 300-400 milliseconds. Last quarter, the network blocked an average of 76 billion cyber threats each day.
Pace of innovation
Lecoeur points to the company's continuous release of new products available at massive scale. Notable examples include Cloudflare One, a platform for connecting and securing distributed teams; Cloudflare Workers, a serverless solution for deploying applications at the edge; Magic Transit, which extends Cloudflare services to on-premise and hybrid networks; Argo Smart Routing, which reduces latency by routing around congestion; and Cloudflare Web Analytics, a privacy-first analytics tool.
Company culture
During the interview process, Lecoeur met a diverse team that he describes as smart, curious, kind, and committed, with a strong builder mindset. He was drawn to Cloudflare's culture of openness, collaboration, and transparency—as well as its mission to help build a better Internet by making powerful technologies accessible to organizations that previously couldn't afford the cost and complexity of implementing them.
Cloudflare's existing French footprint
France has been a Cloudflare market since the company's early days. Today, thousands of French customers use Cloudflare services, spanning startups, SMBs, enterprises, government, education, and non-profit organizations. More than 25 percent of the CAC 40 are Cloudflare customers, including L'Oréal, Solocal, Criteo, Allianz France, and DPD Group. Additionally, more than 30 percent of the Next40—France's index of top startups—are equipped with Cloudflare's security, performance, and reliability solutions, with customers including Back Market, Happn, Wildmoka, and SendinBlue.
The growing demand for secure, fast, and reliable Internet services—accelerated by the rise in remote work and cyber threats—has made this an opportune time for the expansion, according to Lecoeur. Cloudflare is now building its initial team in Paris, hiring for roles including Account Executives, Channel Managers, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, and Customer Success Managers. Lecoeur also invites system integrators, consulting companies, and managed service providers to explore partnership opportunities.
