Leaders. 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
CEO & President

Brian Brockway
Technology

Brian Carolan
Finance

Gary Merrill
Operations

Jesper Helt
People

Robert Kaloustian
Incubation

Rajiv Kottomtharayil
Products

Riccardo Di Blasio
Revenue

Sandra Hamilton
Customer Success

Tom Broderick
Strategy

Warren Mondschein
Legal

Chris Powell
Marketing

Avinash Lakshman
Storage Strategy

Board of Directors

Nicholas Adamo

Martha Helena Bejar

Alan G. Bunte

Frank J. Fanzilli, Jr.

Keith Geeslin

YY Lee

Charles “Chuck” Moran

Daniel Pulver

Gary B. Smith

David F. Walker

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Sanjay Mirchandani

Early in his career, Sanjay realized that – although he could write code – he was better at helping people use it. That’s why, as a customer-driven CEO, he is determined to deliver Commvault solutions that impact the business and lives of our customers.

Sanjay joins Commvault from the software maker Puppet, where he served as CEO for more than two years. During his tenure at Puppet, he grew the user base of Puppet’s open source and commercial solutions to more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 100. He grew Puppet’s global presence, opening new offices in Seattle, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Timisoara, Romania. Prior to that, he spent two decades in senior leadership roles at Microsoft, VMware and EMC Corp.

As a “global citizen,” Sanjay’s move to Commvault’s New Jersey headquarters is a return to his roots. He has family in the New Jersey area and is on the board of directors at Drew University, his alma mater. In addition to his board role at Drew, where he studied computer science and math, he serves on the boards of Datameer, Portland Center Stage and Puppet. He earned his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.

A father of two adult daughters, he recognizes and supports the importance of diversity in the workplace. He is also a “ridiculously passionate” fan of cricket – which is a source of good-natured teasing from his daughters.

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.

Brian Carolan

Commvault’s top numbers guy has been with the company since 2001 and has been chief financial officer since 2012. Before joining Commvault, Brian was crunching numbers at Ernst & Young LLP. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Villanova University, his Master of Business Administration degree from New York University, and he is a certified public accountant in New Jersey. When he’s not watching the bottom line, Brian is most likely watching a Villanova Wildcats basketball game, playing with his fiercely loyal eight-pound dog, Angus, or traveling to a new Major League Baseball park with his son every summer – a tradition he vows to complete until they have seen them all!

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Jesper Helt

Hailing from the tiny kingdom of Denmark – the land of hygge and happiness – Jesper oversees our people agenda and the quest to nurture happiness @ work as a sustainable way of stimulating continuous innovation. Jesper joined Commvault in 2014 following successful stints at Velti, SuccessFactors, Novo Nordisk and Hewlett Packard. Having earned his Ph.D. in Culture Sociology from Copenhagen University, Jesper kicked off his career in his native country. However, for the past 20-plus years he has lived and worked around the world, including Austria, the Czech Republic and the east and west coasts of the United States. An avid soccer player and long-standing Arsenal fan, Jesper can be found out of breath while competing in the Commvault Soccer League. Admittedly, his biggest kick comes from watching his daughter – who is the only girl on her high school football team!

Robert Kaloustian

Given his first power tool at 5-years-old, Rob has been building ever since. Since joining Commvault in 2000, he has been critical in building the business through a variety of customer-centric leadership roles – most recently as the Global SVP Technical Services & Support. Rob is currently responsible for leading Commvault’s New Business Incubation Team to drive new business concepts from ideation to execution.

Before Commvault, Rob worked at MTI in development and technical sales roles. He started his career in the U.S. Marine Corps (Semper Fi), rising to Executive Officer of a combat service and support unit. He earned his Master of Arts degree in Business at Webster University and his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. When he’s not delighting customers, he can be found spending time with his family, knee deep in a home improvement project or logging thousands of miles on his bike.

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 startup, venture capital funds and established technology companies.

Sandra Hamilton

Sandra Hamilton is a true citizen of the world. In fact, for the first 15 years of her career, she hardly worked in the United States. Sandy brings her global perspective to Commvault, where she will be helping to drive the end2end customer experience while directly leading the Systems Engineering, Professional Services and Support teams. She advocates for a workplace that provides inclusion for diversity of thought and bringing the organization together to provide an outstanding customer experience.

Before Commvault, Sandy led Puppet’s Customer Success team, which included technical pre-sales, post-sales delivery, support and renewals, direct and indirect enablement, and customer education teams. She worked at EMC for nearly 10 years, driving its Global Service team’s go-to-market strategy and planning, and serving as a leader for EMC’s consulting organization. Prior to EMC, Sandy was a senior executive in Accenture’s Communications and High Tech practice.

When she isn’t on-site with a customer, Sandy likes to add stamps in her passport and visit friends who live in all parts of the world. She equally enjoys her down time at home, where she hikes in the mountains with her four dogs.

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 now live in New Jersey. Being from Boston, this often presents challenges in rooting for their favorite sports teams, but they seem to make it work!

Warren H. Mondschein

Responsible for all things “legal” on a worldwide basis, Warren has been Commvault’s general counsel and secretary since 2004 and its chief compliance officer since 2010. Warren espouses a management philosophy that smart risk-taking is a valued skillset. Before Commvault, Warren worked in the legal department of Corvis Corporation and in private practice at Mayer Brown LLP. Warren earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and his J.D., cum laude, from The University of Michigan Law School. A self-described, above-average golfer, joke teller and Rice Krispies Treat® maker (he made us add the registered mark), Warren also uses his legal expertise to avoid tickets when he races his Porsche.

Chris Powell

Chris is the first person who will tell you he will do anything for a good story. Just how far would he go? How about the South Pole? In January 2018, that’s what he did – walking with Arctic explorer Robert Swan to the South Pole to raise awareness of renewable energy. Chris often talks about passion – how it can drive you in your work and life, and make a difference in the world. Beyond looking for a good story, he’s also a storyteller, as evidenced by his marketing career. Since joining Commvault in 2014, Chris has transformed the company’s global brand and drives the worldwide marketing strategy and operations. His experience includes 15 years at SAP, where he was a key contributor to its successful “Runs SAP” global brand. When Chris isn’t telling a great story, he can be found training for triathlons or hanging with his wife and three daughters.

Avinash Lakshman

The most recent addition to Commvault’s leadership team, Avinash was the founder and CEO of Hedvig, the company we acquired in October 2019.

He’s all about challenging the status quo. As an engineer at Facebook, Avinash created Apache Cassandra, a “big data” database originally built to handle Facebook’s inbox search feature. Facebook gave Cassandra away as a free, open-source software project; his technology is now a pervasive database used by many companies. Before starting Hedvig in 2012 with his brother, Srinivas, Avinash co-invented Dynamo while working at Amazon.

Armed with a passion for data and undeniable entrepreneurial spirit, Avinash took the helm at Hedvig and co-founded the world’s only private, hybrid and cloud management system for virtual and container environments.

In his downtime, Avinash can be found writing code or exploring a new project.  When he is not solving hard problems with cutting-edge technology, you will find him on the tennis court; listening to classical music; reading about ancient history and anthropology; and spending quality time with his wife and son.

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 22-year 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 small-scale 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, she 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. Martha 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. Martha 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 holds an M.B.A. from Nova Southeastern University.

Alan G. Bunte

Since 1999, Al Bunte has been driving Commvault’s operations; first as senior vice president, then as chief operating officer starting in 2003. Working in tandem with Bob Hammer, Al has been a driving force in establishing Commvault as an industry leader in data recovery and management. As he often states: “It is important customers have the ability to address a diverse range of management requirements. You have to be able to quickly and simply recover, manage, protect and use data.”

Before joining Commvault, Al was with Norand Corporation, serving as its senior vice president of planning and business development. He also worked at Andersen Consulting. Al is passionate about farming and often regales audiences with his down-home approach to business. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Iowa.

Frank J. Fanzilli, Jr.

Frank J. Fanzilli, Jr. has served as a director of our company since July 2002. Frank has extensive experience in the Information Technology field, as both an operating executive and board member. He was previously a managing director and the global chief information officer of Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was a member of the Operating Committee and Information Executive Board. At CS, Frank managed global applications, infrastructure and procurement for all resources worldwide for the firm. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Frank was an engineer with IBM, where he managed systems engineering and software development for Fortune 50 accounts.

Frank currently as a board member for several innovative companies in the technology sector, as well as an advisor to a number of VCs in the space. In addition to Commvault, Frank’s board memberships including iBoss, The Linux Foundation, EnterpriseDB and Skytap. Previously, he served on the boards of other notable companies in the tech sector, including Calypso (acquired by Bridgepoint/Summit Partners), where Frank was Lead Director, 1010Data (acquired by Advance/Newhouse), Avaya (acquired by Silverlake/TPG), Peoplesoft (acquired by Oracle), and a variety of others. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Management, cum laude, from Fairfield University and his M.B.A., with distinction, from New York University, where he was the Marcus Nadler Scholar. Frank maintains an active network of CIO and CTO relationships, which he uses to the benefit of Commvault and the other companies on whose boards he serves.

Independent Director
Member of the Compensation Committee

Keith Geeslin

Keith Geeslin has served as a director of our company since May 1996 and is chairman of our Compensation Committee. He became a partner at Francisco Partners in January 2004, having 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, Keith was the general manager of a division of Tymshare, Inc. and held various positions at its Tymnet subsidiary from 1980 to 1984. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and master’s degrees from Stanford University and Oxford University. Keith 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 served as a director of our company since February 2018. She was most recently chief executive officer of FirstRain Inc., an enterprise SaaS data science company, from 2015 until its acquisition by Ignite Technologies in August 2017. YY previously served as FirstRain’s chief operating officer, responsible for engineering, analytics and data science since 2005. Prior to FirstRain, YY served as senior vice president and 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. 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

Chuck is the founder and served as chief executive officer and president of Skillsoft Corporation, from 1998 to December 2015. Prior to Skillsoft, Chuck 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, he was the chief financial officer and chief operations officer of Softdesk, Inc. Chuck also held senior level sales and marketing positions at Insite Peripherals, Inc. and Archive Corporation. He 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., and Workgroup Technology Corporation. Chuck holds an M.B.A. from Suffolk University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston College.

Member of the Audit Committee

Daniel Pulver

Daniel has served as a director of our company since October 1999 and as our lead independent director since July 2013. Prior to serving as our lead director, Daniel was the chairman of our Nominations and Governance Committee. He is a founder and managing member of Pulver Capital Management. Daniel served as a director at Credit Suisse First Boston LLC from November 2000, when Credit Suisse First Boston LLC (now Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC) merged with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, until April 2005. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Daniel also serves on the board of directors of Data Center Infrastructure Holdings, Endstream Communications and Pulver Capital Management. In addition, he served on the board of directors of the NeuroMatrix Group from 2009 to 2012 and Accellent Inc. from 2005 to 2006. Prior to May 24, 2007, Daniel served on the Compensation Committee of our company.

Daniel has extensive private equity and investment banking experience in technology industries, which has given him both business and finance expertise that is valuable to the board. He brings financial management and financial analysis perspective to Board. In addition, he has held directorships, including a public company directorship, and brings that experience to the Board. The combination of his experience makes him well suited to serve as our company’s lead independent director.

Independent Director
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Nominations and Governance Committee

Gary B. Smith

Gary has served as a director of our company since May 2004 and is chairman of our Nominations and Governance Committee. Prior to serving as chairman of our Nominations and Governance Committee, he served as our lead independent director. Gary is currently the president, chief executive officer and a director of Ciena Corporation, a global supplier of telecommunications networking equipment, software and services. He began serving as chief executive officer of Ciena in May 2001. In addition to his existing responsibilities as president and director – positions he has held since October 2000 – Gary joined Ciena in November 1997, and previously served as the company’s chief operating officer and senior vice president, worldwide sales. From 1995 through 1997, he was vice president of sales and marketing for INTELSAT. He also previously served as vice president of sales and marketing for Cray Communications, Inc. Gary received his M.B.A. from Ashridge Management College, United Kingdom. He currently serves on the board of directors of Avaya Inc., as a commissioner for the Global Information Infrastructure Commission and is a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC).

Gary is an experienced chief executive officer of a company in the information technology industry. As such, he has leadership skills and industry experience, as well as perspectives on the operations, challenges and complex issues facing growing technology-based companies. He also has global sales and marketing experience that is useful to the Board. Gary’s experience as a director of a public company also benefits the Board. The combination of his experience makes him well suited to serve as the chairman of our Nominations and Governance Committee.

Independent Director
Chair of the Nominations and Governance Committee
Member of the Nominations and Governance Committee

David F. Walker

David has served as a director of our company since February 2006 and is chairman of our Audit Committee. He is the Director of the Accountancy Program and the Program for Social Responsibility and Corporate Reporting at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, where he has been employed since 2002. Prior to joining the University of South Florida, David was with Arthur Andersen LLP, having served as a partner in that firm from 1986 through 2002. He earned an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business with concentration in accounting, finance and marketing, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from DePauw University with majors in economics and mathematics and a minor in business administration. David is a certified public accountant and a certified fraud examiner. He also serves on the board of directors of Chico’s FAS, Inc., First Advantage Corporation and Technology Research Corporation, participating on the executive, audit and corporate governance committees of Chico’s and chairing its audit committee; chairing the audit committee of First Advantage; and participating on the compensation and nominating committees of Technology Research.

Independent Director
Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Nominations and Governance Committee