Mike Cannon-Brookes

Mike Cannon-Brookes is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian, a collaboration software company that helps teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. Atlassian has more than 200,000 customers globally, including Spotify, NASA, Mercy Ships, Sotheby’s, and Visa. Mike 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 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 recognized by the World Economic Forum as a ‘Young Global Leader’ in 2009.