Atlassian announces promotion of Avani Prabhakar to Chief People Officer
Bengaluru, May 09, 2024: Atlassian Corporation (NASDAQ:TEAM), a leading provider of team collaboration and
productivity software, and the maker of Jira, Confluence and Loom, announces
the promotion of Avani Prabhakar to Chief People Officer.
In her new role, Prabhakar will assume leadership of
Atlassian’s People organisation, encompassing Human Resources (HRBP),
Employment Relations, Talent, Total Rewards, People Insights, People M&A,
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Team Anywhere across Atlassian’s
global footprint. She'll continue to focus on supporting business
transformations, developing world-class distributed-first teams, and building
the processes, policies and practices that enable Atlassians to unleash their
full potential.
Erika Fisher, Chief Administrative and Legal Officer,
Atlassian said: “In the past
four years alone, Atlassian’s headcount has almost doubled, and as we continue
to scale at speed, I couldn’t think of a better people leader to steer our
future growth.
“Avani is laser-focused on a people strategy that
delivers outcomes and drives success across the whole business. She naturally
excels at unlocking and emphasising the power of cross-functional teams and
partnerships to deliver high-impact results.”
Avani Prabhakar added: “I am thrilled to step into this new role in
such an exciting period of growth at Atlassian. We aspire to be an employer of
choice, and a company where people are given the opportunity to do the best
work of their careers. That’s no small feat, but it’s an honour to be at the
helm of the teams delivering on this ambition for our 11,000+ Atlassians across
the world.”
Prabhakar joined Atlassian as Head of HR Partners for
Asia Pacific in 2019 and assumed leadership of the People M&A team in 2020.
In 2021, she expanded her team to include all HRBPs as Global Head of HRBPs,
and last year, further broadened her remit to include Talent, Employee
Relations, and DEI teams.
Prabhakar is an accomplished People executive with
more than 20 years of international experience across APAC, the Middle East and
the US, in the technology, aviation, insurance, research and analytics
industries.
About Atlassian
Atlassian unleashes the potential of every team. Our
agile & DevOps, IT service management and work management software helps
teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. The majority of the Fortune
500 and over 300,000 companies of all sizes worldwide - including NASA, Tata
Consultancy Services, Infosys and Salesforce - rely on our solutions to help
their teams work better together and deliver quality results on time. Learn
more about our products, including Jira, Confluence and Loom at https://atlassian.com.