San Francisco, Ca., USA - July 20, 2012, San Francisco, Ca., USA - Atlassian, a software company, announced that Doug Burgum has joined the company as its chairman of the board.
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Mr. Burgum served on the Board of SuccessFactors during the company’s IPO in 2007 before becoming its Chairman in 2010 and serving in that role until the company’s acquisition by SAP in December 2011. Previously, he was a senior vice president at Microsoft, where he led the global Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) Group.
Mr. Burgum led Microsoft's acquisition of Navision A/S, a European-based mid-market software company which helped form the MBS Group. Before Microsoft, he was CEO and chairman of Great Plains Software, a software company that Microsoft acquired in April 2001. He initially seed-funded Great Plains in 1983. Mr. Burgum started his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
The company also anounced that Murray Demo and Kirk Bowman have been elected to the company’s board of directors.
Mr. Demo served as executive vice president and CFO of Dolby Laboratories, responsible for the company’s finance, investor relations, information technology, business operations, real estate, and facilities organizations. Prior to Dolby, he served as executive vice president and CFO at LiveOps, and he was previously executive vice president and CFO at Postini, a software company now part of Google.
Mr. Demo spent ten years with Adobe Systems, where his last role was executive vice president and CFO. He sits on the Board of Directors of Citrix Systems and Xoom Corporation. Mr. Demo holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.B.A. degree from Golden Gate University.
Mr. Bowman is a venture partner at venture capital firm Accel Partners. Prior to Accel, Mr. his most recent operational experience was as a sales executive at EqualLogic which was acquired by Dell in 2008.
In the 20 years prior to EqualLogic, Mr. Bowman held sales executive and general management positions at several category-defining companies including VMWare, Inktomi, Model N, Object Design, and Parametric Technology. He serves on the board of Nimble Storage, Coverity, Datameer, Delphix, Panologic and Code 42. ■