Veeam® Software, the Data and AI Trust Company, today announced the appointment of Michelle Graff as Senior Vice President (SVP), Global Partners and Channel responsible for leading Veeam's global partner ecosystem across channel, service providers, distribution, resellers and alliances, accelerating growth with the company's worldwide ecosystem. Graff brings more than 25 years of experience building and scaling global partners, channel, and alliance organizations across data protection, cloud, and cybersecurity.
Michelle Graff appointed SVP of Global Partners and Channel at Veeam.
25+ years experience; most recently SVP at Commvault leading global partner strategy.
Previously held leadership roles at Securiti AI, HashiCorp, Pure Storage, and Palo Alto Networks.
Veeam has 35,000+ partners globally.
95% of organizations believe data challenges have slowed AI progress.
Veeam serves 550,000+ customers including 80% of Fortune 500.
John Jester, Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Veeam, stated: "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. Michelle has a proven track record of putting partners first and building high-performance ecosystems that create durable advantage for partners and customers."
Michelle Graff, SVP of Global Partnerships at Veeam, stated: "The convergence of AI, cybersecurity, and data resilience is one of the most significant shifts of our generation. 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."
In her new role, Graff will focus on delivering greater partner advantage through a unified ecosystem approach, helping partners expand services and solutions opportunities, improving consistency across routes to market, and accelerating joint customer outcomes around data resilience, cyber readiness, and trusted data for AI across any environment. This includes enabling partners to help customers ensure the data used by AI systems is secure, compliant, recoverable, and trusted.
About Veeam Software
Veeam®, the Data and AI Trust Company, delivers a unified data and AI trust layer that connects security, governance, compliance, privacy and resilience, powered by shared intelligence across the entire data estate. Veeam helps organizations establish, operationalize and continuously validate trust in their data so it can be used safely to accelerate AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security, Veeam helps organizations reduce risk and strengthen control across the full data lifecycle.
