Professional Background:
Sanjay Mirchandani has served as Commvault’s President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors since joining the Company in February 2019. Prior to Commvault, he served as CEO of Puppet, Inc., an IT automation company, from 2016 to 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Mirchandani served as VMware’s Corporate Senior Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific and Japan from October 2013 to April 2016. From June 2006 to October 2013, Mr. Mirchandani held various senior leadership positions at EMC Corporation, including Chief Information Officer and leader of the Global Centers of Excellence, as well as various positions at Microsoft Corporation.
Qualifications:
Mr. Mirchandani holds an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Drew University. He brings extensive global leadership, operational, and entrepreneurial experience, gained through a distinguished career spanning established technology enterprises and high-growth organizations.
As President and CEO, Mr. Mirchandani provides the Board with valuable insight into the Company’s strategic priorities, financial performance, operational execution, and long-term growth opportunities. His deep understanding of Commvault’s business, industry dynamics, and future direction contributes significantly to the Board’s oversight and decision-making responsibilities.
Since 2023, Mr. Mirchandani has also served as a director of Itron, Inc., a technology company that delivers innovative solutions and services for energy and water resource management.
Professional Background:
Nicola Adamo has served as the Chair of the Board since April 2019 and has served as a director of the Company since August 2018. Mr. Adamo is a former senior executive of Cisco Systems (“Cisco”), where he served in a variety of sales and leadership roles over a 22-year career prior to his retirement in 2016. While there, Mr. Adamo served as the Senior Vice President of the Americas, where he managed Cisco’s largest geographic region, with annual IT and communications sales of more than $26 billion, and was responsible for 6,500 employees working across 60 different countries. Mr. Adamo also served as the Senior Vice President of Cisco’s $12 billion Global Service Provider organization, leading sales, service delivery, and development for the company’s top service provider customers, among various other roles. Prior to his tenure at Cisco, Mr. Adamo spent more than a decade at IBM in various sales and management assignments. Since leaving Cisco in 2016, Mr. Adamo has consulted with a range of tech companies, and currently serves on the board of directors of Lookout, Inc. Mr. Adamo is also the Founder and President of Making A Mark, Inc., which is a charitable foundation located in Monmouth County, New Jersey, dedicated to empowering change through awareness, knowledge and inclusive opportunities targeting the environment and education.
Qualifications:
Mr. Adamo holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Columbia University. Mr. Adamo is an experienced executive in the information technology industry, who brings a deep working knowledge of the industry and experience from both enterprise and service provider segments, that he can deploy to provide valuable insight and perspectives to our Board. He also has extensive experience and successes as a leader who is able to balance strategy and execution, foster long-standing strategic relationships, and guide business and technology discussions and decisions for shared success. This combination makes him an effective leader for our Board.
Professional Background:
Martha Bejar has served as a director of the Company since July 2018. Ms. Bejar is a Senior Partner at DaGrosa Capital Partners. Previously, she was the Co-Founder/CEO of Red Bison Advisory Group, LLC. Ms. Bejar was also the CEO of several private telecommunications and technology companies, including Unium Inc., Flow Mobile Inc., and Wipro Infocrossing Inc. She has also held executive positions at Microsoft Corporation, Nortel Networks Corporation, and Bell Communications Research. Ms. Bejar currently serves on the board of directors of Lumen Technologies and Sportsman's Warehouse, and previously served on the board of directors of Quadient S.A. from 2019 to 2025.
Qualifications:
Ms. Bejar earned an Advanced Management Program degree from Harvard Business School, graduated cum laude with a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Miami and earned an MBA from Nova Southeastern University. Ms. Bejar has a strong track record of leadership with some of the world's leading corporations where she evidenced a proven ability to drive and support innovation in the technology and software space. She also brings significant executive, governance, strategic, and financial expertise to the Board. Her experience leading complex global organizations and driving transformational growth initiatives enables her to provide valuable insight on strategy, operations, capital allocation, talent development, and long term shareholder value creation.
Professional Background:
Keith Geeslin has served as a director of the Company since May 1996. Mr. Geeslin has been a partner at Francisco Partners, a global private equity firm, since 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. Prior to joining the Sprout Group, Mr. Geeslin was the general manager of a division of Tymshare, Inc., a provider of public computer and network services and held various positions at its Tymnet subsidiary from 1980 to 1984. He was also previously a staff member of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.
Qualifications:
Mr. Geeslin obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and MA from University of Oxford. Mr. Geeslin also serves on the board of directors of Synaptics, Inc. Mr. Geeslin’s private equity and venture capital experience, with a focus on technology sector companies, has given him an understanding of finance and of growth strategies, as well as experience in evaluating businesses in our industry, all of which is very helpful to the Board. Originally representing one of the Company’s initial investors, Mr. Geeslin has a long history with Commvault and its management, providing continuity to Board deliberations. Mr. Geeslin has held various public company directorships and brings that experience to the Board.
Professional Background:
Vivie "YY" Lee has served as a director of the Company since February 2018. Ms. Lee served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of Anaplan, a SaaS software company, from 2018 to 2021. Prior to joining Anaplan, Ms. Lee served as CEO for FirstRain, a business analytics platform company, where she served as Chief Operating Officer before becoming CEO. Prior to joining FirstRain, Ms. Lee served as General Manager of Worldwide Services at Cadence Design Systems leading an advanced technology operation with P&L responsibility spanning research and development, go-to-market, sales, and support across global regions. She has held executive and operational responsibility in businesses with a broad range of technology, software, and systems products and services, requiring awareness and oversight of digital security risks and practices. Before Ms. Lee’s tenure at Cadence, she co-founded the software company, Aqueduct Software, an enterprise-class software engineering solution for automating application data collection, profiling and analysis enabling iterative development and deployment. Bootstrapping the company from the ground-up, she secured top-tier VC financing, and ultimately led the company through acquisition by NetManage in 2000. In addition to Commvault, Ms. Lee serves on the board of directors of Synaptics, Inc. and Belden, Inc. Ms. Lee began her career at Bell Labs, Inc. and was part of early technical and product teams at Synopsys, Inc. and 8x8, Inc. (formerly Integrated Information Technology, Inc.).
Qualifications:
Ms. Lee earned a BA in Mathematics from Harvard University. Through her tenures at numerous start-up and mature Silicon Valley-based technology companies, she brings significant entrepreneurial and executive-level experience in the technology and software industry to the Board. Her expertise in the IT space is broad, and provides the Board with tech-focused insight and perspective in the critical areas of operations, marketing and strategic development.
Professional Background:
Chuck Moran has served as a director of the Company since July 2018. Mr. Moran founded Skillsoft Plc. (“Skillsoft”) in 1998, and served as its CEO and President from its beginning until his retirement in December 2015. He was also a director on the Skillsoft board. Since Skillsoft was one of the first ever SaaS/cloud companies and there were no commercial SaaS providers available, he had to help manage building Skillsoft’s own infrastructure to host its SaaS solution offering for its customers. This undertaking included, among others, a deep understanding of cybersecurity matters. Skillsoft provided solutions to many customers, some with the highest level of sensitive information such as the NSA, CIA, FBI, DHS, White House, IRS, VA, DOD, US Air Force, US Army, and many more. Prior to Skillsoft, Mr. Moran was the President and CEO of National Education Training Group (“NETg”), a computer-based information technology training company, from 1995 to 1997. Prior to NETg, Mr. Moran was the CFO and Chief Operations Officer of Softdesk, Inc, where he helped lead the company's successful initial public offering. 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 boards of directors of private companies Exostar, TCP, and OverseeAI, and public companies Manhattan Associates, Inc. and Intapp, Inc. Mr. Moran previously served on the board of directors of Duck Creek Technologies from 2016 to 2022.
Qualifications:
Mr. Moran earned an MBA from Suffolk University and a BS from Boston College. With more than two decades of experience working with technology companies, Mr. Moran has extensive leadership experience in the industry and expertise in critical areas including operations, finance, sales, marketing SaaS, which are valuable to our Board.
Professional Background:
Shane Sanders has served as a director of the Company since December 2022. He spent more than 25 years at Verizon Communications Inc., a global telecommunications and technology company, holding a series of increasingly senior executive leadership positions across finance, accounting, audit, and enterprise transformation.
Most recently, Mr. Sanders served as Senior Vice President of Business Transformation from March 2020 to December 2022, leading enterprise-wide operational excellence initiatives to drive efficiency and cost transformation. From 2015 to 2020, he served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance, responsible for enterprise financial planning and analysis, long-range planning, capital allocation, and corporate financial strategy, while partnering with executive management and the Board on long-term financial plans, capital deployment, performance against shareholder expectations, and investor communications.
Earlier in his career, he served as Senior Vice President of Internal Audit and Chief Audit Executive, reporting directly to Verizon’s Audit Committee. In this role, he oversaw global internal audit, enterprise governance, compliance, and enterprise risk management, including developing Verizon’s enterprise risk management framework and overseeing financial, operational, regulatory, and technology risks. He also played a leading role in reestablishing company-wide focus on cybersecurity governance by partnering with Verizon’s Chief Security Officer to establish the Enterprise Security Council, which provided enterprise-wide oversight of cybersecurity and IT risk.
Mr. Sanders currently serves on the board of directors of Danaher Corporation.
Qualifications:
Mr. Sanders’ leadership experience spans a broad range of financial and operational areas including financial planning and analysis, accounting, internal audit, public reporting, capital allocation, mergers and acquisitions, public company governance, regulatory compliance and enterprise risk management. His risk management experience, including cybersecurity, his insights into all aspects of the business, and his leadership in business transformation and long-term value creation make him well qualified to advise the Board and management.