Kevin O’Donnell

Chief Financial Officer ValGenesis

Last Reviewed: September 27, 2026

Executive Summary

Kevin O’Donnell is Chief Financial Officer of ValGenesis, the Santa Clara company whose software lets pharmaceutical and other life sciences manufacturers run equipment, process and computer-system validation digitally instead of on paper. He joined in August 2021 as a seasoned technology-company finance chief: before ValGenesis he had been CFO of three companies, Virtual Instruments, PanTerra Networks and Cassatt Corporation, and SVP of Finance and Accounting at SugarCRM. ValGenesis brought him in, in its chief executive’s words, to support “the financial and contractual management of ValGenesis’ rapid global growth”, and he remains on its published leadership team.

Career Highlights

• Chief Financial Officer of ValGenesis since 2 August 2021.
• SVP of Finance and Accounting at SugarCRM before joining ValGenesis.
• Chief Financial Officer of Virtual Instruments, PanTerra Networks and Cassatt Corporation.
• Experience across VC- and PE-backed companies, including mergers, acquisitions and capital raises, according to ValGenesis.

Professional Journey

O’Donnell’s career has been spent as a finance executive in venture- and private equity-backed technology companies, a setting in which the CFO’s job extends beyond reporting into fundraising, deal work and advising operating managers. ValGenesis describes him as having experience in both private and public companies and “a broad range of merger, acquisition, and capital raise transaction experience.”

He was Chief Financial Officer of Cassatt Corporation, PanTerra Networks and Virtual Instruments, and later SVP of Finance and Accounting at SugarCRM, the customer relationship management software company. ValGenesis does not give dates for these roles.

ValGenesis appointed him Chief Financial Officer effective 2 August 2021. The company, led by chief executive and chief product strategist Dr. Siva Samy, sells validation lifecycle management software to life sciences manufacturers and describes itself as the first mover in paperless validation. Samy said O’Donnell added “finance and consulting expertise to our management team.” O’Donnell said ValGenesis had “a world class product with an enormous market opportunity” and that he looked forward to working with Samy and the management team “to further enhance the company’s strategy, financial and operational performance.”

ValGenesis’s leadership page continues to list him as Chief Financial Officer, alongside a chief operating officer, chief revenue officer and chief technology officer, with a board that includes a managing director of Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital.

Education

No education record was found in a first-party source.