Keepit has appointed James Dwyer as chief revenue officer, expanding its senior leadership team as the SaaS data protection company continues its international push across sales, partnerships, customer success, renewals, and business development.
He joins at a point when organisations are relying more heavily on SaaS applications while facing growing scrutiny over how business-critical data is protected, recovered, and kept available. Against that backdrop, Keepit has framed the role around global execution, with Dwyer set to lead revenue operations across markets, channels, and customer segments.
Morten Felsvang, CEO and co-founder of Keepit, said: “James is a modern, people-first leader with a strong track record of scaling global go-to-market organisations at key inflection points. He understands what it takes to turn momentum into sustained performance, while building a high-accountability culture that keeps the customer at the centre. We’re excited to welcome James to Keepit as we continue our international expansion and help more organisations secure access to their SaaS data, no matter what the future holds.”
Drawing on senior leadership experience across data security, data access, and data management, Dwyer arrives with a brief that reflects wider shifts in enterprise technology. As regulatory requirements tighten and AI adoption lifts both data volumes and operational complexity, backup and recovery are becoming more closely tied to resilience, governance, and continuity planning.
James Dwyer, chief revenue officer at Keepit, said: “Across my career, there’s been a consistent theme: data is the foundation companies are built on, and protecting it and ensuring access to it is mission critical. What drew me to Keepit is the combination of a high-stakes problem, strong market momentum, and a focused solution, delivered by a team with the talent and ambition to win. Keepit’s technology stands out because it’s purpose-built for the reality organisations face today: the need for dependable data protection, rapid recovery, and confidence that their business-critical SaaS data remains available.”
He also linked that challenge to the pace of AI-led change. “We’re entering an inflection point where SaaS and AI are changing not just how data is created and used, but how quickly risk can spread,” Dwyer said. “AI agents can accelerate operations, but they can also amplify mistakes and cascade misconfigurations faster than many organisations are prepared for. That’s why data resilience – knowing you can restore what matters, quickly and confidently – has become a defining capability. I’m excited to help Keepit scale globally and support customers as they navigate this new era.”
Based in South Carolina, Dwyer will work closely with Keepit’s leadership team as the company builds out its international revenue organisation. Felsvang said AI is speeding up decision-making and increasing the potential for errors to spread quickly, adding that dependable backup and recovery have become more central as organisations seek confidence in the integrity and availability of their SaaS data.
