Veeam Software has appointed Rashmi Garde as Chief Legal Officer, adding a legal executive with technical roots and major enterprise transaction experience. Garde will oversee the company’s global legal and compliance functions, reporting to CEO Anand Eswaran. Her appointment comes as Veeam continues to focus on data resiliency, secure data management, and the governance demands created by AI adoption.
Garde joins Veeam with a background that includes starting her career as a software engineer at Apple. She most recently served as Chief Legal Officer at Informatica, where she managed the company’s $8 billion acquisition by Salesforce. Her experience also includes building a 75-person legal organization at VMware during its $1 billion IPO and leading legal functions at Sophos through private equity transactions and cybersecurity integrations.
This leadership shift occurs as Veeam prioritizes the development of a unified platform for AI-driven data protection. Eswaran stated that Garde’s technical background and experience scaling legal organizations from startups to $2 billion enterprises were key factors in the selection. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Garde will focus on converting regulatory and data complexity into operational momentum for the company’s global teams.