10 Cloudflare legal leaders
Patrick Nemeroff, VP, Legal; Risk, Litigation, and Employment at Cloudflare, is the most senior current person on this list of ten Cloudflare legal leaders, which also has a chief privacy officer, a head of commercial legal and associate general counsels. A reader can learn how legal leaders work at Cloudflare from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Chris Janisch
LinkedInExperience: Associate General Counsel · Cloudflare
Chris Janisch has been Associate General Counsel at Cloudflare since April 2026, with a profile headline of AGC, Head of Corporate Legal at Cloudflare, based in the Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area. Chris Janisch also lists a Senior Corporate Counsel row at Cloudflare from 2020 to 2026, and was Legal Counsel at Dell Technologies from 2015 to 2020.
Emily Hancock
LinkedInExperience: VP, Chief Privacy Officer · Cloudflare
Emily Hancock has been VP, Chief Privacy Officer at Cloudflare since October 2023, with a profile headline naming the Head of Product, Privacy & IP legal team, based in San Francisco, California. Emily Hancock also lists Chief Privacy Officer, Sr. Director (since 2022) and Data Protection Officer (since 2018) rows at Cloudflare with no end date, and was Director, Senior Associate General Counsel (Head of Product, Privacy & IP) Data Protection Officer there from 2019 to 2022.
Emily Terrell
LinkedInExperience: Associate General Counsel, Director, Litigation · Cloudflare
Emily Terrell has been Associate General Counsel, Director, Litigation at Cloudflare since October 2025 and also lists an Associate General Counsel, Litigation row there since January 2025, based in Washington, District of Columbia. Emily Terrell was Senior Counsel, Litigation at Cloudflare from 2023 to 2025 and Associate at Cooley LLP from 2015 to 2023.
Halsey Bertenthal
LinkedInExperience: Head of Commercial Legal · Cloudflare
Halsey Bertenthal has been Head of Commercial Legal at Cloudflare since January 2024, based in San Francisco, California. Halsey Bertenthal was Associate General Counsel, Commercial (2022 to 2024) and Senior Counsel (2020 to 2022) at Cloudflare, Senior Counsel at Optimizely from 2019 to 2020 and Commercial Counsel, Manager at Box from 2013 to 2018.
Laura Klick
LinkedInExperience: Associate General Counsel, Director - Trade Compliance · Cloudflare
Laura Klick has been Associate General Counsel, Director - Trade Compliance at Cloudflare since October 2025, based in Washington, District of Columbia. Laura Klick was Senior Global Trade Compliance Counsel (2022 to 2025) and Trade Compliance Counsel (2020 to 2022) at Cloudflare, and US-Qualified International Trade Attorney at Baker McKenzie from 2019 to 2020.
Linda Osman Nadeau
LinkedInExperience: Associate General Counsel, Commercial · Cloudflare
Linda Osman Nadeau has been Associate General Counsel, Commercial at Cloudflare since February 2024, based in the Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area, and was Senior Commercial Counsel, Manager there from 2023 to 2024. Linda Osman Nadeau was Regional Managing Counsel, US/Canada (2018 to 2023) and Senior Commercial Counsel (2012 to 2018) at ERM.
Lixian Loong Hantover
LinkedInExperience: Senior AGC, Chief of Staff to the CLO · Cloudflare
Lixian Loong Hantover has been Senior AGC, Chief of Staff to the CLO at Cloudflare since January 2024, based in Los Angeles, California. Lixian Loong Hantover also lists Associate General Counsel (Commercial) rows at Cloudflare from 2021 to 2023 and from 2023 to 2024, and was Senior Legal Counsel (APJC) there from 2020 to 2021.
Nathan Swinton
LinkedInExperience: Associate General Counsel, Director, Regulatory Strategy · Cloudflare
Nathan Swinton has been Associate General Counsel, Director, Regulatory Strategy at Cloudflare since January 2026, based in Washington, District of Columbia. Nathan Swinton was Chief Counsel for Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2024 to 2025 and Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2023 to 2024.
Patrick Nemeroff
LinkedInExperience: VP, Legal; Risk, Litigation, and Employment · Cloudflare
Patrick Nemeroff has been VP, Legal; Risk, Litigation, and Employment at Cloudflare since October 2025, based in Washington, District of Columbia, and describes leading a team that handles litigation, law enforcement requests, government investigations and other legal disputes. Patrick Nemeroff was Senior Director, Senior Associate General Counsel; RLE (2023 to 2025) and Director, Senior Associate General Counsel; RLE (2022 to 2023) at Cloudflare.
Tony Iweagwu
LinkedInExperience: Associate General Counsel - Investigations and Compliance · Cloudflare
Tony Iweagwu has been Associate General Counsel - Investigations and Compliance at Cloudflare since June 2025, based in the Washington DC-Baltimore Area. Tony Iweagwu was Senior Corporate Counsel - Investigations Ethics at Amazon from 2021 to 2025, Senior Legal Counsel at Uber from 2016 to 2021 and Assistant United States Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2009 to 2014.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01Which kinds of matters took up most of your time in your Cloudflare legal role, and how did you set priorities?
- 02How did you work with business colleagues when a legal question affected their plans?
- 03What experience from your earlier career turned out to matter most in the role, and what surprised you?
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