Company: CVLT
Filing Date: 2025-06-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001169561-25-000059
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Company: COMMVAULT SYSTEMS INC
Filing Date: 2025-06-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 independent under these standards. In making this determination, the Nominations and Governance Committee (“NGC”), acting on behalf of our Board, considered all relevant facts and circumstances to ascertain whether there was any relationship between a director and Commvault that, in the opinion of the NGC, would interfere with the director’s exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director.

#### 10COMMVAULT SYSTEMS, INC. |2025 PROXY STATEMENT
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| PROPOSAL NO. 1: ELECTION OF DIRECTORS  |NOMINEES FOR ELECTION |

#### Nominees for Election
| Independent                 
 Age:61                      
 Director since2018          
 Chair of the Boardsince2019 
 Committees:Attends All      |     | Nicola Adamo                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
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 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, 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 (“SVP”) 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 SVP 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. 
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 Mr. Adamo holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Columbia University. Mr. Adamo is an experienced executive in the information technology industry, who brings