Veeam Appoints Rashmi Garde as Chief Legal Officer for the Data and AI Trust Era

Engineer-turned-attorney brings deep cybersecurity, IPO-readiness, and complex M&A experience to scale Veeam’s global legal organization

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veeam® Software, the Data and AI Trust Company, today announced the appointment of Rashmi Garde as Chief Legal Officer (CLO). Garde will lead Veeam’s global legal and compliance function, providing the foundation for trust as the company scales its operational pace and governance priorities in an AI-first world.

"At Veeam, we are building the Data and AI Trust Company, a mission that demands a legal executive who thinks like a builder and moves as an operator," said Anand Eswaran, CEO of Veeam. "Rashmi began her career as a software engineer at Apple. That technical DNA, combined with her experience scaling legal organizations from $20 million startups to $2 billion global enterprises, makes her the perfect executive to lead our teams as we enable safe AI in the agentic era. We are delighted to welcome Rashmi to Veeam.”

Garde joins Veeam with over two decades of experience at the intersection of data, security, and transformation. Most recently, as CLO at Informatica, she navigated the company’s $8 billion acquisition by Salesforce. Her track record includes building a 75-person global legal organization at VMware through its $1 billion IPO, as well as leading Sophos through high-stakes private equity transactions and cybersecurity integrations.

"Trust is the business of the agentic era, and I am excited to join Veeam at a moment when ensuring data is understood and resilient has never been more critical," said Rashmi Garde, CLO at Veeam. "I look forward to partnering across the business to turn complexity into momentum and help the company to scale with clarity and confidence”.

Garde holds a B.A. in Computer Science and a J.D. from UC Berkeley. Her career trajectory - from engineer to attorney - has seen her build and lead legal organizations for high-growth tech leaders including VMware, Marin Software, Bloomreach, Centrify, and Sophos. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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About Veeam Software

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk.

Veeam delivers deep contextual intelligence across every data asset, identity, and AI model. The company governs access for both humans and AI agents, automates privacy, compliance, and remediation processes, and protects and recovers organizations from modern threats – including ransomware, disasters, AI errors, and ensuring the restoration of clean, trusted data. Veeam empowers organizations to move beyond simply protecting data, enabling them to activate and unlock its full potential.

Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.