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.

Anu Bharadwaj is the President 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.

Joe Binz is Atlassian’s Chief Financial Officer where he oversees the company’s Accounting, Finance, Internal Audit, Investor Relations, Tax, and Treasury teams. He brings more than 25 years of finance leadership and experience in the technology industry. As CFO, he will help spearhead Atlassian’s next chapter of growth as the company continues to successfully scale its operations.

Prior to joining Atlassian in September 2022, Joe was Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President, Finance, where he led the company’s financial planning and analysis, investor relations, acquisition integration, and procurement functions. Over his twenty-year career with Microsoft, he was a pivotal finance leader where he most notably guided the company’s business transformation through its multi-billion dollar move to the cloud. Prior to his time at Microsoft, Joe spent eight years at Intel Corporation where he held a variety of finance roles supporting manufacturing operations, product groups, and Intel Capital. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

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.

Rajeev Rajan is the Chief Technology Officer at Atlassian where he oversees Atlassian Engineering, IT, Security and Trust, and the Engineering Operations teams. As CTO, he is focused on our Cloud transformation and continuing to grow Atlassian into a world-class engineering organization.

Rajeev previously acted as the Vice President and Head of Engineering for Meta and spent over two decades at Microsoft, where he held a number of roles, including building and leading the team responsible for Office 365's Cloud Infrastructure.