About this episode

Haseeb Jawad discusses key talent retention strategies in M&A before the deal closes.

Haseeb Jawad, VP and Head of Corporate Development, Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) The people who leave post-close are usually the ones the deal depended on. Which means the problem starts with how you read culture before LOI and whether financial incentives are the only retention tool you are building with. Haseeb Jawad heads corporate development at Commvault, running a lean team with full accountability from sourcing through integration. He has led two to three acquisitions per year across multiple companies, sat on both sides of a transaction, and serves as his own IMO lead. The signals that tell you a deal will lose people are visible from the first founder conversation, if you know what to look for. What You'll Learn The three signals to read in every founder conversation before LOI How the TRUST framework applies across the full deal lifecycle Why retention runs heart, brain, pocket and what breaks when you invert it How to run employee-by-employee diligence without treating people as a cost line Why owning both deal and integration makes business case assumptions honest What one payroll timing issue did to months of trust-building after close If you're managing a post-close…

People in this episode

Host: Kison Patel

Guest: Haseeb Jawad

Topics covered

• talent retention
• M&A
• corporate development
• employee diligence
• deal lifecycle
• company culture

Keywords

• M&A
• talent retention
• corporate development
• employee diligence
• company culture
• financial incentives
• deal lifecycle

Sponsors

DealRoom

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Commvault, M&A Science, Buyer-Led M&A™, NASDAQ: CVLT

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