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Archana Rao

Chief Information Officer at Atlassian

Archana Rao is the Chief Information Officer at Atlassian, where she’s responsible for building and scaling all the systems and processes used by business functions. Archana has more than 20 years of experience setting systems strategies and partnering with business leaders to scale corporate systems.

Before Atlassian, she was a Vice President at Veritas, where she managed the IT separation from Symantec during a record-breaking one-year period. Prior to that, Archana was a VP at Symantec and also worked in a variety of engineering and leadership roles at Cisco.

Archana served on the Board of Directors for Achieve Kids, a Palo-Alto-based school for special needs children.