Venture with Grace Philip Rathle, Neo4j CTO on GraphRAG, Graph Databases & AI
Philip Rathle is the Chief Technology Officer of Neo4j, where he has spent more than a decade helping transform the company from a niche on‑premise database into a leading global graph database and analytics platform used in modern AI and data-intensive applications. With over 25 years in enterprise data, he previously led Neo4j’s product organization, growing ARR from under seven figures to well into nine figures and expanding the portfolio into multiple cloud product lines, while building and leading large global product and engineering teams. Earlier in his career, Philip co-founded a customer data integration startup and held product and consulting roles at Embarcadero, Accenture, and Tanning Technology, giving him deep experience in databases, data modeling, and large-scale information systems. A Northwestern-trained engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is also known for thought leadership around graph technology, GenAI, and GraphRAG, including authoring “The GraphRAG Manifesto” and championing industry standards such as ISO GQL.Topics:
- From On-Prem to Cloud: Scaling Neo4j’s Graph Database Business
- GraphRAG in Practice: How Graphs Supercharge GenAI and RAG Systems
- 25 Years in Data: What Actually Changed (and What Hasn’t)