Leadership, mentors, motivators

Our leadership team inspires and guides us to unlock potential in data, technology and each other.
Together, we create the freedom to reimagine what is possible.

Sanjay Mirchandani
Director, President &
Chief Executive Officer

Brian Brockway
Technology

Tom Broderick
Strategy

Martha Delehanty
People

Riccardo Di Blasio
Revenue

Anna Griffin
Marketing

Rajiv Kottomtharayil
Development and Products

Gary Merrill
Finance

Sarv Saravanan
Customers

Danielle Sheer
Legal

Board of Directors

Nicholas Adamo

Sanjay Mirchandani

Martha Helena Bejar

Keith Geeslin

YY Lee

Charles “Chuck” Moran

Allison Pickens

Shane Sanders

Arlen Shenkman


SEE BOARD COMMITTEE PLACEMENTS

Sanjay Mirchandani

As a customer-driven CEO, Sanjay Mirchandani is dedicated to delivering solutions for customers’ hardest data protection problems.

Since joining four years ago, Sanjay has dramatically innovated Commvault’s industry-recognized portfolio; strengthened its robust partner ecosystem; transitioned the company from a perpetual to subscription business model; and accelerated its revenue growth. This includes launching Metallic, an award-winning SaaS offering that surpassed 4,000 customers and $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in just three years.

As CEO of software maker Puppet, Sanjay grew the company’s user base to more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 100. Sanjay, who earned his bachelor’s from Drew University and MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, previously spent two decades as a senior leader at Microsoft, EMC Corp., and VMware. In addition to serving on Commvault’s Board of Directors, Sanjay is a director at Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI).

Brian Brockway

Since 2015, Brian Brockway has been driving Commvault’s technology strategy, product innovation and integration expansion across the partner ecosystem. He has served in a variety of product management and marketing roles at Commvault, which he joined after working as a strategic consultant at Gartner and an equities analyst at Schwab Soundview Capital Markets. He holds an MBA degree from NYU Stern and an Aerospace Engineering Bachelor of Science degree from SUNY Buffalo, and served in the U.S. Navy Reserves. After years of working to spot global market shifts and acting as his family’s technology guru, he’s challenged daily by his daughters’ mastery of emerging (social) media platforms. He’s called MacGyver by his neighbors for his problem-solving skills and fondness for spy novels, and dreams of joining a surfer band when he’s not finding innovative solutions for customers.

Gary Merill 

Gary Merrill is Commvault’s Chief Financial Officer.

Prior to this role, Gary was Commvault’s Chief of Business Operations, applying his deep financial and operational expertise to implement creative strategies and practical solutions to transform the company’s finance, sales, and operations organizations. This includes driving Commvault’s simplify, innovate, and execute operating framework and leading all go-to-market operations; business technology; customer success management; deal desk; renewals; and financial planning and analysis.

Gary has held a number of critical leadership positions during his tenure at Commvault, including Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President of Finance, and Controller. He began his career with Arthur Anderson LLP in its audit practice serving companies in various industries and gained finance experience working with several global publicly traded companies. Gary obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Elizabethtown College in 1997.

Martha Delehanty

With people at the heart of our growth, innovation and opportunity, we need to, “get ‘em, build ‘em and keep ‘em” for the future. Chief People Officer Martha Delehanty joined Commvault to do just that.

Martha uses her decades of human resources experience at Verizon Operations and Verizon Wireless to guide and coach our team members to build fantastic, life-changing careers. All while helping ensure that Commvault is a naturally relevant contributor to our customers’ value chain.

Martha earned her bachelor’s in psychology from Mount Holyoke College and master’s in business from the University of Texas. When she’s not working, she’s working out; advocating for young women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM); and serving on the board of trustees for 180 Turning Lives Around, a non-profit organization dedicated to eliminating domestic violence.

Rajiv Kottomtharayil

Rajiv Kottomtharayil wasted no time making his mark at Commvault. Starting as a software developer in 1998, Rajiv quickly moved up the ranks – development manager, senior development manager, product development director, and finally, vice president of product development. When he’s not managing Commvault production backup, Rajiv can be found running outdoors or watching the Commvault team play cricket; unless it’s Christmas Day, that’s when he answers customer emails. Rajiv received his Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Monmouth University and Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics from Bombay University.

Riccardo Di Blasio

Whether he is cheering on his favorite European soccer (or football to others) team or coaching his field and partner squads, Riccardo Di Blasio is driving to the goal as Commvault’s Chief Revenue Officer. A 25-year industry veteran, Riccardo has grown numerous technology companies in multiple countries across three continents.

In addition to speaking five languages, he is particularly well-versed in helping enterprise and mid-market customers tackle their private, hybrid and multi-cloud transformations. Riccardo has extensive experience leading sales at DXC Technology’s Cloud Platform Solutions business, as well as within Cohesity, VMware and EMC. Before joining DXC, he was CEO at Globetouch, an Internet of Things company. Riccardo also advises several startups, venture capital funds and established technology companies.

Anna Griffin

Inspired by innovators and visionaries, Chief Marketing Officer Anna Griffin was tapped to propel Commvault’s pioneering and innovative brand and award-winning software and SaaS offerings further and faster.

With more than 25 years as an agency, brand, and global marketer leader, Anna has driven business transformations, implemented successful digital strategies, and created compelling marketing campaigns for global brands such as Apple, Sony, Saturn, Lands’ End. Juniper Networks, CA Technologies, and Smartsheet.

Anna, who earned her Bachelor’s in Marketing from East Carolina University, has been honored with many prestigious marketing and advertising industry awards, including the Golden Effies, the Edgar R. Murrow Award for Social Media, and Moves Magazine Power Woman. She resides with her family in Raleigh, NC.

Tom Broderick

Tom Broderick leads Commvault’s Strategy and Business Readiness teams. An eternal optimist, Tom always searches for the best way to connect our technology with our customers by taking an outside-in approach to design the business from their perspective. It is in this way that Commvault is business ready to deliver a great experience to our customers at every touch point throughout their journey with us.

Tom draws on a career that spans customer-centric, operational and globalization responsibilities. Before Commvault, he enjoyed the food-cart-lunch life in Portland, Ore., as Chief of Staff for Puppet, and spent more than 16 years at EMC leading Product Marketing, Global Operations and Talent Portfolio strategies. Early in his career, Tom cut his teeth in product management and sales for the eyewear company, Uvex. He has an MBA from Babson College and a Bachelor’s in Marketing from Bryant University. Tom and his wife have two children and live in Georgia.

Sarv Saravanan

In today’s SaaS-driven and security-centric hybrid cloud world, it’s not enough to have the best solutions – you must also deliver truly exceptional customer experiences. As Commvault’s Chief Customer Officer, Sarv Saravanan is responsible for doing just that.

Saravanan has extensive experience building and driving global customer-centric development and delivery organizations for two of the top technology powerhouses. Most recently, he led Microsoft’s Global Delivery Center, which engaged with the company’s biggest customers and their strategic partners to accelerate cloud transformations. Prior to that, he led the Centers of Excellence in Asia Pacific and Japan for Dell EMC.

Saravanan, who has a master’s in computer science from Bharathidasan University, was recognized by Zinnov for creating and mentoring industry leaders.

Danielle Sheer

Modern legal teams need to be predictive, proactive, and data-driven to meet the speed, agility, and growth of global business. Danielle Sheer, our Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, enables Commvault to do just that.

A strategic leader with deep experience managing complex global data privacy systems, Danielle has repeatedly scaled legal operations for public technology companies, led IPOs and other transformative strategic transactions, and counseled leaders and boards on significant governance and shareholder matters.

Prior to joining Commvault, Danielle served as General Counsel at financial technology services company Bottomline (NASDAQ:EPAY) and at cloud-backup SaaS solutions provider Carbonite (NASDAQ:CARB). She currently serves on the Board of Directors of LinkSquares; the Leadership Board at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and on the Steering Committee for TechGC.

Shane Sanders

Shane Sanders is a transformational and strategic finance executive. Since 2000, Mr. Sanders has driven numerous enterprise initiatives and counseled executives and directors on critical matters including value creation, capital allocation, and enterprise risk management and compliance. In addition to Commvault, Mr. Sanders is an independent public board director and audit committee member for Danaher Corporation. He also serves on the Council for Economic Education and the Executive Advisory board for the Meinder School of Business at Oklahoma City University. Mr. Sanders earned his Master of Business Administration from Rockhurst University and Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from Oklahoma City University.

Independent Director
Audit Committee

Nicholas Adamo

Nicholas Adamo is a former senior executive of Cisco Systems, where he served a variety of sales and leadership roles over a successful career. While there, Nick served as the SVP of The Americas, managing Cisco’s largest geographic region, with IT and communications sales of $26B+, with 6,500 employees working across 60 countries. He also ran the company’s $12 billion Global Service Provider organization, leading sales, service delivery and development for Cisco’s top service provider customers. Since leaving Cisco, Nick has been consulting with a range of tech companies, while serving on the boards of Lookout, Blue Danube and GTT Communications.

Martha Helena Bejar

Martha Bejar is the co-founder and has been Chief Executive Officer of Red Bison Advisory Group, LLC since April 2013. Previously, Ms. Bejar held the position of the Chief Executive Officer of Unium Inc., Flow Mobile Inc., and Wipro Infocrossing Inc., as well as various executive positions at Microsoft Corporation, Nortel Networks Corporation, and Bell Communications Research. Ms. Bejar currently serves as a member of the board of directors of CenturyLink Inc. and Mitel Corporation. She previously served on the board of directors of Polycom Inc. Ms. Bejar received an Advanced Management Program degree from Harvard Business School. She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Miami and also holds an M.B.A. from Nova Southeastern University.

Member of the Nominations and Governance Committee

Keith Geeslin

Keith Geeslin has served as a director of our company since May 1996 and is chairman of our Compensation Committee. Mr. Geeslin became a partner at Francisco Partners in January 2004, prior to which Mr. Geeslin spent 19 years with the Sprout Group, the venture capital arm of Credit Suisse’s asset management business, which conducts its activities through affiliates of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC. Prior to joining the Sprout Group, Mr. Geeslin was the general manager of a division of Tymshare, Inc. and held various positions at its Tymnet subsidiary from 1980 to 1984. Mr. Geeslin obtained his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and master’s degrees from Stanford University and Oxford University. Mr. Geeslin also serves on the board of directors of Blue Coat Systems, Inc., Hypercom Corp. and Synaptics, Inc.

Independent Director
Chair of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee

YY Lee

YY Lee has been a director of our company since February 2018. She served as Chief Strategy Officer of Anaplan from 2018 until October 2021, leading performance planning across corporate functions and incubating strategic internal initiatives and market collaborations during the period through and following the company’s IPO. Previously, she was chief executive officer of FirstRain Inc., an enterprise SaaS data science company, from 2015 until its acquisition by Ignite Technologies in August 2017, and was the company’s chief operating officer, responsible for engineering, analytics, and data science since 2005. Prior to FirstRain, YY served as the general manager of Worldwide Services at Cadence Design Systems, a global advanced technology division of the company. She previously co-founded the software company Aqueduct Software, an automated enterprise application profiling and analysis solution, and led this company through bootstrapping, venture financing, commercial growth, and acquisition by NetManage in 2000. 

In addition to Commvault, YY serves on the Board of Directors of Synaptics (Nasdaq: SYNA), a company that is changing the way people engage with connected devices and data at work, home, and on the go. YY began her career at Bell Labs and has held various product management roles at Synopsys and 8×8 (formerly Integrated Information Technology Inc.). She holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Harvard University.

Independent Director
Member of the Compensation Committee

Charles “Chuck” Moran

Charles Moran is the founder and served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Skillsoft Corporation, from 1998 to December 2015. Prior to Skillsoft, Mr. Moran was the President and Chief Executive Officer of NETg National Education Training Group, a computer-based information technology training company, from 1995 –1997. Prior to NETg, Mr. Moran was the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer of Softdesk, Inc. Mr. Moran has previously held senior level sales and marketing positions at Insite Peripherals, Inc. and Archive Corporation. Mr. Moran currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Manhattan Associates, Inc., and has in the past served on the boards of Skillsoft Corporation, including as chairman from 1998 to 2002 and again from 2006 to 2016, Higher One Holdings, Inc., Workgroup Technology Corporation, and Duck Creek. Mr. Moran holds an M.B.A. from Suffolk University and a B.S. from Boston College.

Member of the Audit Committee

Allison Pickens

Allison Pickens is a technology executive with significant experience driving growth and strategic transformation initiatives at SaaS companies. Ms. Pickens most recently served as Chief Operating Officer and previously held other executive roles at Gainsight, a SaaS company, from 2014 to 2020. She is the co-author of the book “The Customer Success Economy,” published by Wiley in spring 2020. Ms. Pickens previously worked at Bain Capital Private Equity, where she evaluated investments in a range of industries, and Boston Consulting Group, where she was a management consultant to both public and private companies.

Ms. Pickens is a member of the Board of Directors of Rainforest QA, a venture-backed SaaS company, and is a member of the Technology Advisory Network at Boston Consulting Group, where she advises on strategic transformations of technology companies. She also has served as an Executive-in-Residence at Bessemer Venture Partners, advising portfolio companies on how to grow and retain subscription revenue. Previously she served as a member of the Board of eCompliance, a privately-funded SaaS company, until its successful acquisition by Alcumus. Ms. Pickens has an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Yale University.

Member of the Nominations and Governance Committee

Arlen Shenkman

Arlen Shenkman has substantial experience helping to lead large-scale business transformations for growth of SaaS and working with companies that specialize in complex-cloud environments and enterprise application software. He is currently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Citrix Systems, Inc., where he is responsible for all of the company’s financial and capital management strategies, budgeting and planning, financial accounting, tax and treasury, investor relations, strategic alliances and M&A. He joined Citrix in September 2019 from SAP, where he most recently served as Executive Vice President and Global Head of Business Development and Ecosystems. Prior to that role, Mr. Shenkman served as Chief Financial Officer of SAP North America, the company’s largest business unit. Mr. Shenkman previously served as Global Head of Corporate Development for SAP and was a principal architect of SAP’s rapid transformation into a cloud company.

Mr. Shenkman has a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law, an MBA from the Fox School of Business at Temple University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from George Washington University.

Chair of the Operating Committee

Member of the Audit Committee