
The People You Lose in M&A: Key Talent Retention Before Close
Haseeb Jawad, VP and Head of Corporate Development, Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT)
Most acquirers build retention around the bonus. Haseeb Jawad puts money third. His order is heart, brain, then pocket: win people through your actions from Day 1, convince them with a better-together story you actually believe, then get the financial package right. Even that can backfire. He shares how a delayed retention payment, caught up in payroll processing, undercut the goodwill his team had built.
Haseeb runs a lean corp dev team at Commvault that owns deals from sourcing through integration, and he leads the…
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