Michelle Graff

Michelle Graff is Senior Vice President of Global Partners and Channel at Veeam Software, appointed in July 2026 to lead the company's global partner ecosystem across channel, service providers, distribution, resellers and alliances. She brings more than 25 years of experience building and scaling global partner, channel and alliance organizations across data protection, cloud and cybersecurity.

Graff joined Veeam from Commvault, where she served as Senior Vice President of Global Partners and Channel Sales from July 2025, leading global partner strategy and ecosystem execution across hyperscalers, managed service providers, resellers and alliances. Before Commvault she was Vice President of Global Channel Sales and Alliances at Securiti AI, where she built the data security company's indirect revenue engine. Earlier in her career she held partner and channel leadership roles through the growth phases of HashiCorp, Pure Storage and Palo Alto Networks, companies she helped scale from early stage through successful public listings.

Career History

• Senior Vice President, Global Partners and Channel, Veeam Software (2026 to present)
• Senior Vice President, Global Partners and Channel Sales, Commvault (2025 to 2026)
• Vice President, Global Channel Sales and Alliances, Securiti AI
• Partner and channel leadership roles, HashiCorp, Pure Storage and Palo Alto Networks

What Michelle Graff brings to Global Partners and Channel at Veeam: a record of building high-performance partner ecosystems across security, storage and cloud vendors at every stage of scale, direct experience running a global channel organization at one of Veeam's closest data protection rivals, and established relationships across the hyperscaler, distributor and reseller landscape on which Veeam's 35,000-partner ecosystem strategy depends.