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Keepit, the independent, cloud-native data protection and recovery provider, has strengthened its global channel organization through consolidation and expanded regional leadership. This move reinforces Keepit’s 100 percent channel-led go-to-market model and its ambition to become “the most partner-friendly organization in the world,” prioritizing partners with consistent enablement, joint marketing, and collaborative execution across regions.
Jan Ursi, Global Vice President of Channels, leads the unified strategy, messaging, and coordination across regions. His approach positions the channel as the primary route to market, emphasizing long-term collaboration, trust, and generosity over transactional relationships. This structure aligns partner recruitment, enablement, and pipeline development under a single global narrative while allowing regional flexibility to address local needs.
“At Keepit, being partner-friendly isn’t just a slogan — it’s our culture,” said Jan Ursi, Global Vice President of Channels at Keepit. “All functions across the company empower partners with the tools, knowledge, and support they need to succeed, while building relationships based on trust and generosity, not transactions. Our mission is simple: make unlimited SaaS data protection accessible everywhere through simplicity, independence, and a culture of partnership.”
“The conditions are in place to build an exceptional partner-friendly organization — probably the most partner-friendly company of the next decade,” Ursi added. “Partners give us extra wind in our sails, help make deals bigger, and bring Keepit to every corner of the world.”
Southern Europe and DACH — Cyril VanAgt, Regional Vice President of Channel, EMEA South, leads this strategic growth engine from Paris. With extensive channel experience from Nutanix and NetApp, the focus is on rapid ecosystem expansion through local campaigns, PR-driven launches, and a structured Partner Academy with sales, technical, and marketing tracks. In DACH, efforts emphasize supporting top VAR and MSP partners while developing distribution for mid-market and SMB segments.
“Southern Europe and DACH are a strategic growth engine for Keepit,” said Cyril VanAgt. “Our goal is to create an ecosystem of fans and trusted advisors — partners who are confident in our technology, connected to our teams, and excited to grow with us.”
Northern Europe — Alex Walsh, Regional Vice President of Channel, EMEA North, drives expansion in the UK, Ireland, Nordics, Central Eastern Europe, and Benelux. With over 12 years in enterprise SaaS channel leadership from Veeam and AppSense, the strategy centers on tier-one VAR, MSP, and distributor relationships supported by data-led planning and consistent enablement.
“We’re focused on building strong, valuable partnerships that deliver measurable outcomes for customers and partners alike,” said Alex Walsh. “That means clear programs, consistent execution, and close collaboration with partners who want to scale and grow with Keepit.”
Americas — Jill Miracle, Director Channels Americas, maintains momentum with strategic partners while reinforcing Keepit’s long-term partner-only commitment. Efforts include synchronized global Partner Academy access, timely marketing assets, product updates, and certifications for U.S. and Latin American partners.
“Our Americas partners are critical to Keepit’s success,” said Jill Miracle. “We’re committed to supporting their growth with strong enablement, clear communication, and joint marketing that helps them win.”
Keepit’s consolidated channel structure delivers predictable economics, repeatable models, and vendor-independent SaaS backup and recovery that partners can confidently take to market across industries. The organization prioritizes ease of engagement, pipeline development, and scalable delivery, positioning partners for profitable, durable SaaS data protection practices.
This strengthened team sets the foundation for accelerated partner recruitment, certification expansion, and joint marketing in 2026, with the overarching goal of mutual growth in the evolving data protection landscape.
About Keepit
Keepit provides a next-level SaaS data protection platform purpose-built for the cloud. Securing data in a vendor-independent cloud safeguards essential business applications, boosts cyber resilience, and future-proofs data protection. Unique, separate, and immutable data storage with no sub-processors ensures compliance with local regulations and mitigates the impact of ransomware while guaranteeing continuous data access, business continuity, and fast and effective disaster recovery. Headquartered in Copenhagen with offices and data centers worldwide, over 20,000 companies trust Keepit for its ease of use and effortless backup and recovery of cloud data.
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