Veeam Software, the Data and AI Trust Company, has appointed Michelle Graff as Senior Vice President (SVP), Global Partners and Channel. In her new role, Graff will lead Veeam’s global partner ecosystem across channel, service providers, distribution, resellers, and alliances, with a focus on strengthening partner engagement and accelerating growth across the company’s worldwide network.
Graff brings more than 25 years of experience in building and scaling global partner, channel, and alliance organisations across data protection, cloud, and cybersecurity. She joins Veeam from Commvault, where she served as Senior Vice President, Global Partners & Channel Sales, leading the company’s global partner strategy and ecosystem execution across hyperscalers, managed service providers, resellers, and alliances.
At Veeam, Graff will focus on delivering a unified ecosystem approach that enables partners to expand their services and solutions, improve consistency across routes to market, and accelerate customer outcomes in data resilience, cyber readiness, and trusted data for AI. She will also work with partners to help customers ensure the data used by AI systems is secure, compliant, recoverable, and trusted.
“Partners are deeply rooted in the DNA of Veeam. In a world where 95% of organizations believe data challenges have slowed AI progress, there’s an incredible opportunity for Veeam partners to deliver tangible value to their customers helping them accelerate safe AI at scale,” said John Jester, Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Veeam. “Michelle has a proven track record of putting partners first and building high-performance ecosystems that create durable advantage for partners and customers. With more than 35,000 partners across the world, her leadership will help us simplify engagement, increase co-sell velocity, and unlock new growth opportunities across the Veeam vast partner community.”
“The convergence of AI, cybersecurity, and data resilience is one of the most significant shifts of our generation,” said Michelle Graff, SVP of Global Partnerships at Veeam. “As organizations adopt AI and agentic workloads, trusted, resilient data becomes the foundation – driving a ResOps approach that puts resilience at the center of how customers protect, optimize, and unlock value from their data.
“With the market’s leading partner ecosystem, Veeam is uniquely positioned to lead, helping customers keep data secure, governed, compliant, and recoverable so they can accelerate safe AI at scale and deliver measurable outcomes. I’m excited to join Veeam and help our partners turn resilient data into a strategic advantage.”
Prior to Commvault, Graff held leadership roles at Securiti AI and contributed to partner-led growth initiatives at HashiCorp, Pure Storage, and Palo Alto Networks, building extensive experience across security, storage, and cloud ecosystems.
