Starr Corbin

About Starr Corbin

Technology moves fast. The executives who navigate it well are the ones who stay close to what\'s actually happening — not just in the boardroom, but in the research.I\'ve spent over 20 years at the intersection of enterprise technology and organizational change — at Cloudflare, Diligent Robotics, iHeartMedia, Capgemini, and as a U.S. Army Signal Corps Officer. The thread across all of it: translating complex technology decisions into clear strategy, and seeing that strategy through to execution.Alongside that work, I\'m completing a PhD with research focused on applied AI — specifically building an agent-based LLM framework that ingests multimodal data (images and text) for feature extraction and correlation in the fight against human trafficking. It\'s the kind of problem that demands both technical rigor and real-world stakes, which is exactly where I want to operate.In 2020, I developed a machine learning model that classified U.S. counties by COVID-19 risk — before most organizations had a framework for thinking about it. I\'m drawn to hard problems that matter and to building the systems that help solve them.

Experience

1. VP, Enterprise Applications

   Cloudflare

   Feb 2024 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Responsible for the enterprise application strategy and delivery across Cloudflare\'s corporate technology portfolio — spanning Finance, Sales, Legal, Marketing, and People functions — in a SOX-compliant, high-growth public company environment.My work sits at the intersection of business stakeholder partnership and technical execution: aligning system investments to business value, maintaining service quality and stability, and driving down total cost of ownership across the stack.Increasingly focused on how AI can be embedded into enterprise business technology — not as a layer on top, but as a core part of how work gets done. This includes identifying where intelligent automation and AI-driven workflows create genuine leverage for Cloudflare, and building the organizational and technical foundation to deliver on it responsibly.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Master of Arts - MA, Women’s and Gender Studies

• Texas Christian University

  Bachelor's degree, General Studies

• Texas McCombs School of Business

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management and Operations

• Southern Methodist University

  PhD - Student (in-progress), Computer Science

  2026