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

Brian Carolan
Finance

Martha Delehanty
People

Riccardo Di Blasio
Revenue

Isabelle Guis
Marketing

Rajiv Kottomtharayil
Products

Avinash Lakshman
Storage

Gary Merrill
Operations

Manoj Nair
SaaS

Danielle Sheer
Legal

Board of Directors

Nicholas Adamo

Sanjay Mirchandani

Martha Helena Bejar

Todd Bradley

Keith Geeslin

YY Lee

Charles “Chuck” Moran

Allison Pickens

Arlen Shenkman

David F. Walker

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Sanjay Mirchandani

As a customer-driven CEO, Sanjay is determined to deliver solutions that liberate customers to do amazing things with data. Since joining the company, he has done this by further innovating Commvault’s industry-recognized portfolio; incubating Metallic, an award-winning SaaS offering; and strengthening the Company’s robust partner ecosystem.

Prior to joining Commvault, Sanjay was CEO at software maker Puppet. During his tenure, he grew Puppet’s user base to more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 100 and extended the company’s presence to Seattle, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo. Before Puppet, Sanjay spent two decades in senior leadership roles at Microsoft, EMC Corp., and VMware.

Sanjay is a global citizen and firm believer that inclusion and diversity are critical to continuous innovation, which he instills throughout Commvault. He is the father of two daughters and a ridiculously passionate fan of cricket. Sanjay studied math at Drew University and earned his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. Sanjay is a Distinguished Board Fellow at Drew University.

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

Brian Carolan has been instrumental in transforming Commvault from a startup to the high-growth, global, publicly traded software company it is today.

Throughout his more than 20-year tenure, Brian has helped Commvault fund and navigate its IPO, global expansion, first acquisition, and most recently, the rapid incubation and launch of its award-winning Metallic SaaS portfolio. As CFO, Brian is focused on strengthening investor relationships and paving the way to double-digit annual recurring revenue to fuel the company for years to come. He is also executive sponsor of Commvault’s Women in Technology employee resource group.

After earning his Bachelor’s in Accounting from Villanova University, Brian went on to work for EY in its Technology, Entertainment and Communications audit practice and later obtained his Master’s in Business Administration from New York University. He is a member of Villanova’s Center for Business Analytics Advisory Council and President of its Alumni Club of the Jersey Shore, which has raised more than $100,000 for charity over the past five years.

Brian, a Certified Public Accountant, recently joined the Junior Achievement of New Jersey State Board of Directors, was named New Jersey BIZ CFO of the Year in 2016 and was inducted into the NJ Tech Council CFO Hall of Fame in 2019.

Gary Merill

Gary Merrill is Commvault’s Chief of Business Operations. A Commvault veteran, Gary has also served as Chief Accounting Officer and Vice President of Finance, as well as Controller. Gary’s accounting management experience spans several publicly traded companies over the course of his career, which he began at Arthur Anderson LLP in its audit practice.

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.

Manoj Nair

An avid foodie, Manoj knows you need more than a recipe for success; it requires vision, creativity, experience working the line, and an unstoppable drive to succeed. With an appetite and passion for creating cloud solutions, he and our nimbly driven Metallic team are focused on accelerating the innovation and growth of Commvault’s Software as a Service (SaaS) business. The former CEO and Co-Founder of HyperGrid, Manoj has served up cloud and security offerings for HPE, EMC, VMware and RSA, and holds more than 12 information management and security patents. He has a Master of Computer Science degree from Clemson University.

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.

Isabelle Guis

Isabelle Guis brings two decades of experience in B2B technology marketing to her role as Chief Marketing Officer. Her extensive experience includes multiple go-to-market motions including SaaS, direct and through channel partners, as well as product marketing and management across the IT industry.

Prior to Commvault, she was vice president of sales cloud product marketing at Salesforce, where she oversaw product messaging, launches and innovation for the Sales Cloud portfolio. She also held executive and senior management roles at Egnyte, EMCCorporation, Big Switch Networks, Avaya, Cisco Systems, and Nortel Networks.

Voted a Top 100 most influential B2B tech marketing in North America in 2016, Isabelle resides in Silicon Valley, California, where she provides pro bono consulting work to local Bay Area public and non-profit organizations. She also enjoys socially responsible traveling and spending time with her husband and cat.

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!

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.

Avinash Lakshman

Avinash is all about challenging the status quo. As an engineer at Facebook, he 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; playing tennis; listening to classical music; 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 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

Todd Bradley

Todd Bradley has significant leadership, finance, digital, marketing, technology and software experience. He previously served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mozido, a cloud-based mobile payment provider, from October 2015 to May 2017. Prior to that, Mr. Bradley served as the President of TIBCO Software Inc., a provider of infrastructure and business intelligence software, from June 2014 until it was acquired by Vista Equity Partners in December 2014. From 2005 to April 2014, Mr. Bradley served in a variety of roles at HP Inc. (“HP”), a manufacturer of computers and printing products, along with related technologies solutions and services, including most recently as Executive Vice President, Strategic Growth Initiatives from June 2013 to April 2014. Earlier in his career, Mr. Bradley served as President and CEO of Palm, Inc., a personal digital assistant and smartphone manufacturer, which was later acquired by HP.

Mr. Bradley is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Eastman Kodak Company and Mattel, Inc. and recently joined One Equity Partners as an Operating Partner. Previously, he served as a member of the Board of TrueCar Inc.

Mr. Bradley holds a B.S. from Towson University.

Member of the Compensation Committee

Member of the Operating 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 served as a director of our company since February 2018. Ms. Lee 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. She previously served as FirstRain’s chief operating officer, responsible for engineering, analytics and data science since 2005. Prior to FirstRain, Ms. Lee 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. Ms. Lee 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., and Workgroup Technology Corporation. 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

Gary B. Smith

Gary B. Smith 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, Mr. Smith served as our lead independent director. Mr. Smith is currently the president, chief executive officer and a director of Ciena Corporation, a global supplier of telecommunications networking equipment, software and services. Mr. Smith 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. Mr. Smith joined Ciena in November 1997, and previously served as the company’s chief operating officer and senior vice president, worldwide sales. Prior to Ciena, Smith served as VP for Sales and Marketing at Intelsat and held executive roles in several pioneering European communications companies, including Cray Communications Group, Tricom Communications PLC, and Case Communications Group. Mr. Smith received his master’s in business administration from Ashridge Management College, United Kingdom. Mr. Smith is a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) and serves on the Wake Forest Center for Entrepreneurship Advisory Council.

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

David F. Walker

David F. Walker has served as a director of our company since February 2006 and is chairman of our Audit Committee. Mr. Walker 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, Mr. Walker was with Arthur Andersen LLP, having served as a partner in that firm from 1986 through 2002. Mr. Walker earned a Master of Business Administration 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. Mr. Walker is a certified public accountant and a certified fraud examiner. Mr. Walker 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