Mike Cannon-Brookes

Mike Cannon-Brookes was born in November 1979,[6] the son of a global banking executive, also named Mike, and his wife, Helen.[3] He was educated at Cranbrook School in Sydney,[2] and graduated from the University of New South Wales with a bachelor's degree in information systems on a UNSW Co-op Scholarship.[7]

With Scott Farquhar, Cannon-Brookes is the co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, a collaboration software company. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales' School of Computer Science and Engineering. Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar were recognised as the Australian IT Professional of the Year award in 2004, and Australian 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year. Cannon-Brookes was also honoured by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2009 and is a member of The Forum of Young Global Leaders.[7]

He is married to Annie Todd[2] with four children,[8] and lived in Sydney's eastern suburbs in Centennial Park;[2][5] in 2018 he bought Fairwater, Australia's most expensive house for around $100m, next door to Scott Farquhar's A$71 million house Point Piper harbourside mansion, Elaine. He also acquired the 1923-built heritage residence Verona, designed by architect Leslie Wilkinson and located in Double Bay, for $17 million.[9] The house previously belonged to New Zealand philanthropist Pat Goodman. Prior to that, in 2016 Cannon-Brookes bought $7.05 million SeaDragon house, built in 1936, designed by Leslie Wilkinson and updated by architect Luigi Rosselli.[10] His Centennial Park home sold for $16.5 million.[11] In 2019 he purchased the house near Fairwater for $12 million.[12]

Alongside his business partner, Farquhar, Cannon-Brookes debuted on the 2007 BRW Young Rich list of the richest Australians aged under 40; and on the BRW Rich 200 in 2013 with an estimated net worth of A$250 million.[2] In 2016, his net worth was estimated by Forbes on the list of Australia's 50 Richest people as US$1.69 billion;[13] by BRW Rich 200 as A$2.00 billion;[14] and by the Sunday Times Rich List as GB£906 million.[15] As of 2019, his net worth was estimated to be A$10 billion, being considered by Forbes the youngest billionaire in Australia and the 5th in Australia's 50 Richest 2019 list.[16][17]

Wealth rankings

Year	BRW Rich 200		Forbes Australia's 50 Richest		Sunday Times Rich List
	Rank	Net worth (A$)	Rank	Net worth (US$)	Rank	Net worth (GB£)
2013[18][19]	190	$0.25 billion	n/a	not listed
2014[20][21]	35	$1.07 billion	n/a	not listed
2015[13][22]	42	$1.14 billion	25	$1.10 billion
2016[14][13][15]	18	$2.00 billion	14	$1.69 billion		£906 million

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