Qlik Names New Global Channel Chief

Michael Gray joins the data integration and analytics company after a stint as channel chief at Arctera, bringing with him a long resume of sales and channel management experience.

Qlik has named former Arctera and Veritas channel and sales executive Michael Gray as the new global channel chief at the business intelligence and data integration tech developer.

Gray, whose formal title is senior vice president, global channels and alliances, fills the vacancy created in January when David Zember left the company.

“Michael will lead our global channels and alliances organization with a focus on driving alignment, increasing partner impact and enabling partner-led growth,” said Qlik CRO Brian Hamel in a LinkedIn post Monday announcing Gray’s appointment.

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“With his extensive experience in developing high-impact global partner programs, I know that he’s going to make a huge impact here,” Hamel said.

Gray joins Qlik, based in King of Prussia, Pa., at a time when the need for data analytics, integration and management technology is surging to meet the data demands of AI applications and agents. Last month, for example, Qlik unveiled the general availability of its agentic analytics in the Qlik Cloud platform.

Gray comes to Qlik from Arctera, a provider of data compliance, resilience and protection systems and services, where he served for nearly a year and a half as vice president, global channels and alliances.

Arctera was created in 2024 when Cohesity purchased the enterprise business of Veritas and that company’s data compliance and resilience business was spun off. Arctera was acquired by Cloud Software Group in December.

Before his stint at Arctera, Gray was regional vice president of cloud solution sales at Veritas Technologies for more than two and a half years. Before that he worked at Oracle for more than five years, including holding positions of regional vice president of North America alliances and channels for Oracle Open Cloud Infrastructure and regional vice president of Oracle Open Cloud software sales.

Prior to that, Gray worked at Carbonite for a year and before that spent 16 years in various leadership roles at IBM.

Zember recently posted on LinkedIn that he took on the job of vice president of worldwide partners and alliances at Chicago-based iManage, which develops a document and email “knowledge work platform” targeting law firms and legal professionals, financial service companies and companies in other verticals.