INDUSTRY APPOINTMENTS & ACQUISITIONS
Commvault announces leadership appointments
Commvault has announced two leadership appointments, effective immediately, to support the company’ s continued growth strategy. Both roles report to Commvault’ s President and CEO Sanjay Mirchandani.
Gary Merrill has been named Chief Financial Officer( CFO). With more than two decades of experience at Commvault, Merrill spent 15 years in the finance organisation, including as CFO from 2022 – 2024. As CFO, Merrill utilised his financial expertise to transform the company’ s finance organisation, accelerate its successful transition to a durable, highgrowth subscription and SaaS business model and build relationships with the investment community.
Geoff Haydon has been appointed President of Customer and Field Operations and will oversee the end-to-end customer experience, from sales and partnerships through Customer Support and Success. He brings deep security expertise to Commvault as the company gains momentum with security-focused customers.
Merrill said:“ I’ m honoured to return as CFO of Commvault as we embark on our next chapter of innovation for our customers. The company has a strong foundation with thousands of customers and a rapidly expanding subscription and SaaS revenue base. I look forward to working with Sanjay, Geoff and leaders across the company to deliver sustainable growth and profitability in FY 2027 and beyond.”
Gary Merrill
Geoff Haydon
Haydon said:“ Commvault has never been more relevant in cyber-resilience. With an extensive background in AI-native security, international markets and cross-functional leadership, I’ m excited to lead the customer and partner operations teams and deliver greater value for enterprises globally with a customer experience that is best-in-class.”
ServiceNow completes Armis acquisition
ServiceNow has completed its acquisition of Armis. Armis, a leading cyber-exposure management and security company, delivers an AI-powered solution that sees, protects and manages cyber-risk across every connected asset – from OT, IoT, medical devices, physical AI to code and cloud – in real time.
The acquisition extends ServiceNow’ s security platform into the physical and operational layers of the enterprise, adding the cyber-asset intelligence foundation and business context that enterprises need to deploy Agentic AI with trust and control at scale.
The close follows ServiceNow’ s completion of the Veza acquisition in March
2026. Veza brought AI-native identity intelligence to the ServiceNow AI Platform, giving enterprises continuous visibility into who and what has access to every digital, connected resource.
With the Armis acquisition, ServiceNow’ s identity intelligence and cyber-exposure management capabilities distinctively power critical pre-breach and post-breach security
Amit Zavery outcomes as enterprises deploy Agentic AI at scale. Together, Armis delivers realtime visibility and protection across every connected cyber-asset, while Veza maps every permission and access path across human, machine and AI agent identities.
Amit Zavery, President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Product Officer at ServiceNow, said:“ Armis gives us real-time, contextual awareness into the cyber-risk of every connected asset, including the devices and systems that conventional tools were never built to see. Combined with Veza’ s identity intelligence, that signal flows into ServiceNow’ s Context Engine and AI Control Tower, turning exposure into automated remediation with governance and a full audit trail built in at every step.” •
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