Our people

This is our team, a lot of smiling happy people who work hard to empower your teams.

Our leadership team

With over 100 years of combined experience, we've got a well-seasoned team at the helm.

Mike Cannon-Brookes

CEO & Co-Founder

Mike Cannon-Brookes is the CEO and Co-Founder of Atlassian, a collaboration software company that helps teams organize, discuss and complete shared work. More than 300,000 large and small organizations across the world, including companies like Reddit, NASA, Mercy Ships, Sotheby's and Visa use Atlassian’s collaboration products to help their teams work better together.

Mike was the youngest person ever to be awarded the ‘Australian Entrepreneur of the Year’ in 2006 by Ernst & Young alongside Co-Founder and then Co-CEO Scott Farquhar. In 2016 they were awarded Australian Financial Review's 'Australian Business Person of the Year' and in 2017 Forbes named them on their ‘Global Game Changers’ list. Mike was recognised by the World Economic Forum as a ‘Young Global Leader’ in 2009.

Outside Atlassian, Mike is a technology investor in the areas of software, fintech, agriculture, and energy and sits on the board of Zoox. He also cares deeply about giving back and sits on the board of Room to Read. A passionate clean energy evangelist, Mike was a driving force behind Australia getting the world's biggest lithium-ion battery and the "Fair Dinkum Power" movement.

He serves as an adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales' School of Computer Science and Engineering and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Scott Farquhar

Co-founder & Co-CEO

Scott Farquhar is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian, a collaboration software company that helps teams organize, discuss and complete shared work. More than 300,000 large and small organizations, NFPs, and government agencies across the world, including companies like ANZ bank, Spotify, Twilio, Mercy Ships and Visa use Atlassian’s collaboration products to help their teams work better together.

In 2015, Scott helped spearhead Pledge 1%, a corporate philanthropy movement dedicated to making the community a key stakeholder in every business. 300,000+ companies around the world have now joined.

Scott was the youngest person ever to be awarded the ‘Australian Entrepreneur of the Year’ in 2006 by Ernst & Young alongside Co-Founder and Co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes. In 2016 both Scott and Mike Cannon-Brookes were awarded Australian Financial Review's 'Australian Business Person of the Year' and in 2017 Forbes named them on their ‘Global Game Changers’ list.

Outside of Atlassian, Scott co-founded a private investment fund, Skip Capital, which focuses on fast-growing technology companies, with a particular interest in the intersection of big data and health. Scott holds a BSc (Business Information Technology) from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Amy Glancey

Chief of Staff

Amy Glancey is the Chief of Staff at Atlassian. Joining Atlassian in 2016 as the Director of Communications for APAC, Amy expanded her remit to Director of Communications for Global Markets covering APAC & EMEA footprints. In 2018 Amy took the position of Chief of Staff in the Office of the CEO. Prior to Atlassian, Amy spent four years at Groupon where she led the communications team across 14 markets in APAC. Prior to Groupon, Amy held various roles across the U.S, U.K, and APAC in both the private and public sector. Amy has a degree in Communications and a Masters in Journalism both of which she graduated with Distinction.

James Chuong

Chief Financial Officer

James Chuong is Atlassian's Chief Financial Officer, leading the company's global financial and legal teams. Prior to joining Atlassian, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of LinkedIn, leading LinkedIn’s financial operations that support the company’s business strategy, from July 2021 to March 2026. He previously held several finance leadership roles since joining LinkedIn in 2013, leading global teams responsible for financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, international finance, and financial planning systems. Prior to LinkedIn, James spent several years as an investment banker for notable financial institutions, including J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, and Bank of America Securities. He holds an MBA in Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and B.A. in Business Administration from the University of San Diego.

Vikram Rao

CTO Enterprise, Chief Trust Officer

Vikram Rao is Atlassian's CTO Enterprise, Chief Trust Officer, holding dual leadership over enterprise engineering and trust, two foundational pillars of Atlassian's platform. He drives enterprise engineering across the Enterprise & Emerging businesses, including Service Collection, Enterprise Foundations, and Public Sector, while overseeing the company's end-to-end trust framework encompassing security, privacy, compliance, governance, and risk management.

Vikram has over two decades of experience in security and engineering fields serving consumer, enterprise and cloud customers. Prior to Atlassian, Vikram was the Chief Trust Officer at Salesforce, empowering organizations everywhere to leverage trust as a key enabler of innovation in a digital economy. Before joining Salesforce, he spent 18 years at Microsoft in various engineering leadership roles.

Tamar Yehoshua

Chief Product and AI Officer

Tamar Yehoshua is Atlassian’s Chief Product and AI Officer, driving the company’s vision for the future of teamwork in the age of AI. She leads Atlassian’s Teamwork Collection and AI strategy, uniting product, design, and intelligent experiences to help teams work smarter, faster, and more creatively. Her goal: build AI-native, world-class products that set the standard for how millions of knowledge workers get things done.

She most recently served as President of Product and Technology at Glean, advancing intelligent search and knowledge discovery. Previously, as Chief Product Officer at Slack, she led product, design, and research through a tenfold revenue increase, a public listing, and acquisition by Salesforce. Earlier in her career, she held numerous roles leading product and engineering for Search, Identity, and Privacy at Google.

Stan Shepard

General Counsel

Stan is the General Counsel of Atlassian, where he leads the Legal, Policy and Government Affairs, Sustainability, and Social Impact teams. He has served in several leadership roles during that time, including Deputy General Counsel and Head of Commercial Transactions.

Prior to joining Atlassian, Stan practiced technology transactions at Charles Schwab and spent several years in private practice. He also sits on the boards of Business Software Alliance and the Atlassian Foundation. Stan holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science from the London School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University.

Charlie Sutton

Chief Design Officer

Charlie Sutton is a senior design executive with over two decades of experience leading high-performing design teams at influential technology companies. His career spans the full spectrum of design—from speculative R&D and innovation strategy to global consumer mobile experiences, enterprise software platforms, and service delivery.

Charlie's leadership is defined by his ability to bridge disciplines and cultures. He has guided interdisciplinary teams tackling everything from long-range hardware projects to next-generation digital products.

Charlie lives in the Northern Rivers region of Australia, where he balances his creative pursuits with a love for surfing and the outdoors.