C liff Obrecht is an Australian technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Canva, the wildly popular online graphic design platform. He founded the company in 2012 with his now-wife, Melanie Perkins, and their friend, Cameron Adams. The idea for Canva was born from Perkins's experience teaching design programs at a university, where she realized there was a need for a much simpler and more accessible design tool.

As COO, Obrecht has been the driving force behind the company's business operations, scaling the company from a small Australian startup into a global technology giant. Canva's intuitive, user-friendly platform and its freemium business model have attracted hundreds of millions of users worldwide, allowing people with no design training to create professional-looking graphics. The company's massive growth and multi-billion dollar valuation have made it one of the most valuable private software companies in the world and have turned Obrecht and his co-founders into some of Australia's wealthiest people.