Mike Cannon-Brookes is the founder of Atlassian, the world-leading J2EE software development and professional services company based in Sydney, Australia.
Atlassian produces the popular JIRA issue tracker, manages the java.blogs online community and recently released Confluence , the professional J2EE wiki.
He is also the founder of the global OpenSymphony group , which produces Open Source J2EE components such as OSCache, WebWork, SiteMesh and OSWorkflow, as well as a major driver of the Weblog phenomenon through Atlassian's creation of the javablogs.com blog community.