Mike Cannon-Brookes is the CEO of Atlassian, a company he co-founded alongside his university friend, Scott Farquhar, in 2002 from Sydney, Australia. Over the next 20 years, they built Atlassian to be a leader in collaboration software, focused on unleashing the potential of teams around the world. Today Atlassian has over 300,000 customers across all company sizes and industry sectors.

In his role as CEO, Mike is responsible for the overall strategic direction and product strategy for Atlassian. He continues to grow Atlassian’s product portfolio, which started as a bug-tracking tool for developers called Jira, to a suite of solutions to support every type of team.

Mike is on the Board of Directors for a number of organisations including Blackbird Ventures and is the Chair-Elect of Room to Read, a non-profit committed to improving literacy and gender equality in education in the developing world. A passionate clean energy evangelist, he continues to invest in sustainable solutions through Grok Ventures, and his philanthropic initiative, Boundless Earth. He is also a member of Australia's Nation Brand Advisory Council and serves as an adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales' School of Computer Science and Engineering.

He is a global technology leader, passionate philanthropist and a sporting enthusiast, with minority ownership in sporting teams across Australia and the US.

Paul Scully is the NSW Minister for Planning and Public Spaces.
He previously served as Shadow Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, Shadow Minister for Police and Counter Terrorism and Shadow Minister for Natural Resources.

Paul was first elected to Parliament as the Member for Wollongong at a by-election in November 2016.

His background in politics, economics and innovation allows him to understand the many challenges of planning and urban development in NSW.

His focus is on working with all levels of government, the community and industry to solve housing, jobs and infrastructure challenges in NSW.

David Thodey AO, FTSE became the 19th Chancellor of the University of Sydney on 1 July 2024. He is widely recognised for his contributions over 30 years to science and technology, business, public service and the community, with significant experience in driving innovation in start-ups, large companies and public sector bodies.

An advocate for the real-world impact of research translation, David is known for prioritising people across all the fields he has worked in and is dedicated to delivering a great experience for our students and staff, and great partnerships beyond the University.

In addition to his role as Chancellor, he is currently Chair of Xero and Chair of Ramsay Health Care. Prior to becoming Chancellor, he had been a member of the University Senate’s Finance Committee since 2022. Just this month he began serving on the Reserve Bank of Australia's new Governance Board.

He is passionate about environmental sustainability and co-chairs the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. He is also co-chair of the Climate Leaders Coalition.

His previous roles include serving as chief executive of IBM Australia and New Zealand and Telstra, and as chair of the CSIRO.

David is active in public policy and led an Independent Review of the Australian Public Service. He also chaired a New South Wales Government- review of Federal Financial Relations. Most recently, he led a user audit of the myGov government services digital portal.

In 2020, he was Deputy Chair of the Federal Government’s National COVID-19 Coordination Commission Advisory Board, supporting the Government to navigate the challenges faced during the early stages of the pandemic.

David is an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia for ethical business leadership. He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Science and Technology from Deakin University and an Honorary Doctor of Business from both University of Technology Sydney and the University of Sydney.

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.

As Managing Director APAC, Stuart FitzRoy leads the team in APAC and partners with the Chief Product Officer to design, build and deploy Rokt’s products. Stuart joined Rokt in 2015.

He came to Rokt from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he was a Principal in the firm’s Sydney office. While there, Stuart worked with clients on technology projects across a range of sectors including travel and tourism, infrastructure and mining. He has expertise in digital technology, commercial strategy, distribution, sourcing and procurement.

In the middle of his tenure at BCG Stuart left to join Jetstar, the low fares airline serving the Asia-Pacific region. He was responsible for distribution and product management of the airline’s technology platform for booking, payment and check-in. He returned to BCG after helping to grow the Jetstar Group from concept to $1 billion in revenue.

Stuart holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics & Finance as well as a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sydney.

James came to Square Peg after running Startmate, Australia’s leading seed fund and startup network. Prior to that, James was based in Silicon Valley where he helped scale Khan Academy from YouTube success to the world’s largest edtech organisation. Previously, James founded and sold a startup in digital archiving, and helped start the healthcare practice at McKinsey & Company, Australia. He holds a law degree and a university medal from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

Ticky Fullerton joined the Chamber as Chief Executive in March 2023 to lead the team as we look forward to the huge opportunity for our partners: the Free Trade Agreement, developments with AUKUS on the defence and security front and the exciting business generation around energy transition.

Ticky is a highly skilled and motivated thought leader with board and governance experience, an extensive network across governments, the top floor of business and the media.

She has a long-standing reputation as a highly credible voice in business. She is a trusted advisor to government, working closely with both Australian and UK government networks.

Most recently, Ticky was Business Editor at Large at The Australian newspaper. She is an award-winning journalist and a household name in Australian business circles with over twenty years at News Corp and the ABC.

She was Business Editor of Sky News in Australia and presented Business Weekend, the channel’s flagship business program for the ABC and was an investigative journalist with Four Corners.

Prior to journalism, Ticky spent ten years with investment bank CS First Boston in Britain and Australia.

She is a past director of the Australian British Chamber of Commerce and of the CRC for Irrigation Futures.

Ticky has a law degree from Oxford where she was also Treasurer of the Oxford Union.