Veeam has appointed Michelle Graff as Senior Vice President of Global Partners and Channel, effective immediately. Graff takes responsibility for Veeam's worldwide partner ecosystem, spanning channel, service providers, distribution, resellers, and alliances.
Graff brings more than 25 years of experience scaling partner organisations across data protection, cloud, and cybersecurity. At Commvault, her most recent role, she served as SVP of Global Partners and Channel Sales, overseeing partner strategy for hyperscalers, managed service providers, resellers, and alliances. Prior to that she held senior positions at Securiti AI and was part of the leadership teams that took HashiCorp, Pure Storage, and Palo Alto Networks through their IPOs.
The appointment comes as Veeam leans harder into the AI infrastructure story. The company points to research suggesting 95% of organisations believe data challenges have slowed AI progress, framing its 35,000-strong partner network as a delivery mechanism for what it calls "trusted data for AI." John Jester, Veeam's Chief Revenue Officer, said Graff's record of building partner programmes that create "durable advantage" was the deciding factor.
In her new role, Graff will focus on simplifying partner engagement, increasing co-sell velocity, and helping customers build what Veeam terms a ResOps posture: resilience at the centre of how data is protected, optimised, and made available to AI workloads. That means ensuring data used by AI systems is secure, compliant, recoverable, and governed, so organisations can adopt agentic AI without the added risk of contaminated or inaccessible data.
Veeam, which is headquartered in Seattle and has offices in more than 30 countries, serves over 550,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500.
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