Philip Rathle

About Philip Rathle

Philip Rathle is CTO at Neo4j. Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States.

Product & technology executive. Loves building things, getting others to feel passionate about those things, and motivating colleagues to work towards a shared vision. 25+ years in enterprise data. CTO @ Neo4j. Head of Product @ Neo4j between 2012 and 2023. Oversaw the product transformation from an on-prem single-product database (sub $1M ARR) to a cloud-based portfolio with four product lines @ $100M++ ARR, leading a global team of 25+ PMs. Helped to create the graph database category. Prior PM roles include heading PM for Embarcadero's portfolio of ~10 DB tools, and launching the company’s first subscription product which became Embarcadero’s fastest-growing new product ever. Philip was an early pioneer in customer data integration, serving as co-founder and CTO of Customer Evolutions, one of the first software companies working to tackle master data management. As a consultant earlier in his career, Philip spent nearly 10 years solving large-scale information processing problems in the field with some of the world's best & brightest at Tanning Technology and Accenture, with a focus on database, database architecture, and data modeling. Passionate about building trust, great people, and great products; and helping the world realize the many new possibilities enabled by data, software, and relationships in data.

Additional experience

• SVP of Products

  Neo4j

  May 2012 – April 2023

Education

• B.S., Northwestern University