Atlassian Hires CFO

Atlassian, a company that sells collaboration tools to large enterprises, hired Erik Bardman as its CFO today.  Bardman replaces C. Alex Estevez who served as the company’s CFO from 2011 to last October.  This move is being viewed as a hint that the company is gearing up for an IPO.  Atlassian’s last funding round came with a valuation of $3.3 billion.

Atlassian is a member of the Triton Research IPO Watchlist, a continuously updating database of companies we expect to either IPO or be acquired.  The current IPO Watchlist is comprised of 108 companies organized by investment theme,