Jay Simons

Jay Simons, Vice President, Marketing, Atlassian.

Atlassian develops affordable, lightweight software that helps enterprises collaborate better. Its products include Confluence, recognized as the most widely-used enterprise wiki, and JIRA, one of the world's most popular issue trackers for IT project management. The company has more than 15,000 customers worldwide, including 30 of the world's top 50 corporations.

Prior to Atlassian, Jay was a Vice President of Marketing at BEA Systems, where

he oversaw the planning, strategy and positioning of BEA’s business process management, portal, collaboration and enterprise social computing technologies to the global market.

Mr. Simons joined BEA through the acquisition of Plumtree Software in October 2005 where he served as the Vice President of Product Marketing and Strategy. Mr. Simons joined Plumtree in early 1998, helping the company grow from zero to $100M in revenue in a variety of sales and marketing roles in North America and abroad. Mr. Simons initiated and oversaw the company’s operations throughout Asia from 2000 through 2003 as the Managing Director for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. Prior to that, in early 1999, Mr. Simons initiated operations for Plumtree in the United Kingdom and helped establish offices through Europe.

Mr. Simons holds a Bachelors of Arts in Political and Environmental Science from the University of Washington.  He resides in San Francisco, California.