Eric Knauf

Eric leads Worldwide Talent Acquisition for Commvault. Commvault is a software company relentlessly focused on all things data. We are dedicated to providing organizations worldwide with a radically better way to protect, manage and access data and information. Not only is Commvault the leader of Gartner's 2014 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances (5 straight years!), it is also among Forbes most Innovative Growth Companies.Commvault, headquartered outside of New York, NY (Tinton Falls, NJ), has offices in London, Bangalore, Oberhausen, Paris, Chicago, Amsterdam, Sydney, Beijing, and Cupertino

Previously, Eric led global recruiting for Ariba, an SAP Company. Worked with finance, sales, engineering, and operational leaders to align the global recruiting strategy with the workforce plan across all regions. Led all global recruiting activities with recruiters in Sunnyvale, Pittsburgh, Alpharetta, Paris, Prague, Rio de Janeiro, & Bangalore (supporting North America, South America, South Africa, EMEA, APAC & India) across all functions.

"1 of 100 Great Disruptive Heroes" in Bill Jensen's new book, Disrupt!, Eric is also the Co-Founder and Trustee of Lean Communities. Eric has presented at ERE and #SOSUASIA (Sourcing Summit). He well be a panelist at SourceCon 2015. Eric established two Human Capital consulting and executive search firms and has led talent strategies for a strategy and process consulting firm. As a lean practitioner, he has led Talent-based Process Transformation at Fortune 500 corporations. Further, he led a Strategic Business Unit for a global, multi-billion dollar, enterprise Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO) provider.