AvePoint Names Ali Rohani Chief Strategy Officer

The Jersey City software firm appointed Rohani to lead a unified global strategy for its AI Trust category and customer value.

Updated on Nov. 4, 2026 in People

AvePoint Names Ali Rohani Chief Strategy Officer

AvePoint has appointed Ali Rohani as Chief Strategy and Customer Officer, a newly created role overseeing global strategy and customer experience. Rohani will lead a unified strategy for the company's AI Trust category.

Why it matters

The appointment combines customer success with category and brand strategy under one executive as AvePoint works to govern, secure, and scale AI for its customer base. It signals a focus on customer value as the company pursues growth in AI governance.

AvePoint, listed on Nasdaq as AVPT and on SGX as AVP, serves more than 28,000 customers and 6,000 channel partners. Rohani's appointment does not include any disclosed revenue or operational targets.

The players

AvePoint

AvePoint is a Jersey City-based software company listed on Nasdaq and the Singapore Exchange that provides data management, security, and AI governance products.

Ali Rohani

Ali Rohani is an enterprise technology executive with prior leadership roles at Qualtrics, Microsoft, and IBM.

The details

Rohani previously served as Chief Transformation Officer at Qualtrics, where he led the founding of Qualtrics Edge and created the Qualtrics Partner Network in 2017. Earlier roles include Vice President and Global Head of Customer Engineering for Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business, and product and technical sales positions at IBM.

November 4, 2026: AvePoint announces Ali Rohani's appointment as Chief Strategy and Customer Officer.

Market Landscape

AvePoint's inclusion in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Agent Management Platforms places it among early vendors in a newly defined category. The company recently launched the AvePoint Trust Platform as it competes to govern enterprise AI.

For AvePoint's existing customers and channel partners, the appointment centers on the end-to-end experience from onboarding through long-term growth. The stated goal is to ensure every customer gets full value from their deployments.

The takeaway

Leadership roles that combine customer success with product strategy are becoming more common as software vendors compete on post-sale value. Organizations evaluating AI governance vendors may find customer outcomes a useful measure alongside feature lists.