Carsten Graf

Vice President EMEA Sales | Cloudian

Seasoned VP Sales with 25+ years of experience building startups and driving revenue growth and market expansion for enterprise AI and SaaS companies across EMEA, with a strong focus on Central Europe.

Specialized in building and scaling high-performing sales, channel, and business development organizations that consistently outperform targets while maintaining a strong, collaborative team culture. My leadership style combines clear strategy, execution discipline, and trust-based team development — because great results and enjoying the journey are not mutually exclusive.

Currently, I lead Sales, Channel, and Business Development across EMEA at Cloudian, owning go-to-market execution for enterprise AI data infrastructure and SaaS solutions. I work closely with customers and partners to enable large-scale AI initiatives by making unstructured data AI-ready, secure, and accessible.

Domain expertise:
AI infrastructure, enterprise SaaS, NVIDIA AIDP, NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage, cloud and managed services, data-intensive and regulated environments.