Ex-Block APAC comms lead joins Atlassian.
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Ex-Block APAC comms lead joins Atlassian. May 21, 2026 9:56 Block's former regional comms lead Alice Coulthard has joined Atlassian to run communications for its billionaire CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes. Coulthard joins as Atlassian communications director in the office of the CEO, two months after exiting in Block's global layoffs. She was among roughly two dozen Australia-based staff across marketing and communications at Block and its brands Square and Afterpay laid off as CEO Jack Dorsey moved to cut about 40% of the global workforce. Writing on Linkedin about her new role, Coulthard said her arrival comes just after the wrap-up of Atlassian's global conference in Anaheim, California, "with one big idea front and centre: intelligence is the engine; context is the fuel." "With that, there's no shortage of stories to tell - AI is reshaping how teams work, and Atlassian is right at the centre of it," she wrote. Before joining global payments giant Block in May 2024, Sydney-based Coulthard was We Are Social's general manager for two years, and at Ogilvy PR, where she spent almost four years as a director. Her arrival at Atlassian comes as Australia's first tech unicorn - a start-up to reach a US$1 billion valuation - grapples with a plunging share price and growing pressure from the rise of artificial intelligence giants like OpenAI and Anthropic. As a result...
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