The People You Lose in M&A: Key Talent Retention Before Close

Podcast: M&A Science · Kison Patel

Opublikowano: 2026-07-02

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...