Board of directors

Scott Farquhar co-founded Atlassian and has served as our Co-Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since October 2002 and as chair of our board of directors from December 2016 to April 2018. Mr. Farquhar holds a Bachelor of Science in business information technology from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Michael Cannon-Brookes co-founded Atlassian and has served as our Co-Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since October 2002. Mr. Cannon-Brookes has also served as an adjunct professor of computer science & engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia since April 2014. Mr. Cannon-Brookes holds a Bachelor of Commerce in information systems from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

James Beer has served as our Chief Financial Officer since February 2018. Before joining Atlassian, Mr. Beer served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of McKesson Corporation, a Fortune 10 healthcare services and information technology company. Between 2006 and 2013, Mr. Beer was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Symantec Corporation, a cybersecurity company, where he managed the worldwide finance organization. Previous to his work at Symantec, Mr. Beer was Chief Financial Officer of AMR Corp. and American Airlines, AMR’s principal subsidiary. Mr. Beer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College, London University, and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Mr. Beer currently serves on the board of directors for Alaska Air Group, parent company of Alaska Airlines, and DocuSign, Inc., an e-signature solutions company.

Anu Bharadwaj is the Chief Operating Officer at Atlassian. Anu leads transformative projects across product lines at Atlassian, including the enterprise business, cloud platform teams and operations.

An accomplished executive with a track record of growing $500M+ businesses, building great teams and shipping blockbuster products, Anu joined Atlassian in 2014 as the Head of Product for Jira, and has held a variety of roles at the company during her tenure. Prior to joining Atlassian, Anu was at Microsoft, launching several products for Microsoft Visual Studio for over 10 years. Anu is passionate about making the world a better place through technology and effective philanthropy. She is a member of OutSystem’s board of directors and serves as the Director of Atlassian Foundation.

Cameron Deatsch has served as our Chief Revenue Officer since March 2020. From October 2012 to March 2020, Mr. Deatsch served multiple roles at Atlassian, including Senior Director of Advocacy, Head of Server Business, Head of Corporate Development, Head of Server and Enterprise Marketing and Head of Growth and Online Sales. From June 2008 to August 2010, Mr. Deatsch served as a Product Marketing Manager at Jive Software and became their Senior Director of Marketing from June 2010 to October 2012. Mr. Deatsch holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Montana and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from The University of California, Davis.

Erika Fisher is the Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel at Atlassian, where she oversees the company’s global administrative functions, including human resources, recruiting, legal, compliance and government affairs. She also manages Atlassian’s board of directors and sits on the board of Business Software Alliance. Ms. Fisher joined Atlassian in April 2016 and has served in several leadership roles during that time, including commercial and product counsel, as well as Head of Privacy. Prior to joining Atlassian, Ms. Fisher spent several years in private practice at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Goodwin Procter LLP. Her practice focused on advising early stage, high growth companies in licensing and technology transactions. Ms. Fisher holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania where she was awarded the Silverman-Rodin merit scholarship, a Certificate in Business and Public Policy from the Wharton School, and a bachelor’s degree in art history and political science from the University of Miami, where she was awarded the Foote Fellows merit scholarship.

Sri Viswanath has served as our Chief Technology Officer since January 2016. From April 2013 to December 2015, Mr. Viswanath served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Product and Engineering at Groupon, Inc., a global local commerce company. From September 2012 to April 2013, Mr. Viswanath was the Vice President of Research and Development for mobile computing at VMware, a provider of cloud and virtualization software and services. From September 2009 to November 2011, Mr. Viswanath served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Ning, Inc., an online SaaS platform company, which was acquired in November 2011 by Glam Media, a media company, where he became Senior Vice President of Engineering and General Manager of publisher products from November 2011 to August 2012. From 1999 to July 2008, Mr. Viswanath led the development of a number of open-source and business-to-business products at Sun Microsystems. Mr. Viswanath is currently a director of Splunk Inc., a company that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data. Mr. Viswanath holds a Master of Science in computer science from Clemson University and a Master of Science in management from Stanford University.