Jay Simons is president of Atlassian, a leading enterprise collaboration software company with more than 30,000 customers worldwide. Atlassian's products -- including JIRA, the industry-leading issues management software, Confluence, its enterprise collaboration software and its developer product portfolio including Stash and Bitbucket -- are used by more than 85 percent of the Fortune 100 to plan, build and launch great software. Jay has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry. He began his career in sales and marketing at Plumtree Software before becoming vice president of marketing at BEA Systems, later acquired by Oracle in 2008. As president of Atlassian, Jay has overseen the company's global expansion, introduced its Starter License program -- called Causium, it's a mashup of freemium and cause marketing - grown its worldwide customer community and programs and helped introduce the company's cloud-based offering, Atlassian OnDemand.
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