Bio

Product & technology executive. Loves building things, getting others to feel passionate about those things, and motivating colleagues to work towards a shared vision. 20+ years in enterprise data. Led product management for three category-defining products including Neo4j, the leading graph database. Joined Neo4j as the first product leader. Has overseen 100x adoption & revenue growth since joining post Series A and >$500M in VC funding. Leads a rapidly-growing global team of 20+ world-class Product Management leaders. Besides product & portfolio definition, pricing, licensing, etc., was also responsible for much of the early positioning and messaging during the category creation phase, and early & ongoing communication with industry influencers. At Embarcadero, launched the company’s first subscription product, All-Access, combining existing desktop products with streamed application virtualization, an interactive software catalog, and centralized licensing technology into a managed delivery service. All-Access became Embarcadero’s fastest-growing new product ever. Subsequently ran product management for the company’s portfolio of ten data and database products, leading a team of six product managers. Philip was an early pioneer in customer data integration, serving as co-founder and CTO of Customer Evolutions, one of the early software companies in the master data management space. Prior to being drawn into the gravitational spiral of product management, spent over 5 years working with some of the best practitioners in the field of large-scale information processing systems: in data modeling, data warehousing, high-performance transaction systems, performance engineering, database management, and change management. Landed into enterprise IT, data, and software at Accenture after studying Chemical & Environmental Engineering and Chinese language at Northwestern University. Passionate about building trust, great people, and great products; and helping the world realize the many new possibilities enabled by data, software, and the relationships between data.