Today, graph database and analytics provider Neo4j® announced that Sudhir Hasbe has joined its senior leadership team as Chief Product Officer (CPO). Hasbe will report to CEO and Co-Founder Emil Eifrem on the company’s native graph database and data science tools.
Hasbe managed Google Cloud’s Data Analytics Platform, which includes industry-leading technologies including BigQuery, Looker, Dataproc, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Composer, Data Fusion, and Dataplex. BigQuery became one of the largest analytics platforms under Hasbe, with tens of thousands of clients, 110TB of data processed per second, hundreds of customers with petabyte-scale datasets, and more than 700 ISV products.
Google Executive Sudhir Hasbe is appointed Chief Product Officer at Neo4j
Hasbe oversaw Google Cloud’s Looker, Dataform, Cask, and CompilerWorks acquisitions. Hasbe executive sponsored numerous Google Cloud’s top business clients and ecosystem partners. Hasbe led Zulilly’s software engineering team to data-driven success before joining Google. Hasbe managed Xbox entertainment services, Azure Data Marketplace, SQL Azure, and BizTalk Server at Microsoft for seven years before joining Zulilly.
Hasbe succeeds Philip Rathle, who becomes Chief Technology Officer to assist Neo4j’s vision and technology grow and increase its stakeholder ties. Rathle’s ten years at Neo4j developed the graph category, expanded the company’s offering from a single database product to a comprehensive graph stack with native graph storage, data science, analytics, and visualization, and made Neo4j a top database player. 75% of the Fortune 100 and 250,000 data developers, scientists, and architects from hundreds of Fortune 500 firms, NGOs, and more utilize the company’s products.
“Sudhir’s track record and innovation with cloud hyperscalers comes to us at a time when graph technology is reshaping the database market and accelerating advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning in ways that are helping enterprises solve their biggest data challenges,” said Neo4j CEO and Co-Founder Emil Eifrem. “Sudhir’s knowledge builds on Philip’s as we pursue the next level of corporate and category transformation. I love having both leaders.”
Sudhir Hasbe, a former Google executive, has been appointed Chief Product Officer of Neo4j.
Hasbe’s hiring followed Neo4j’s double-digit growth in 2022 and exceeding $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2021. It doubled enterprise cloud and graph data science. The firm was featured in the Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for Cloud Database Management Systems in December 2022, marking the first time native graph suppliers had been included. Neo4j’s next-generation cloud-ready graph database, Neo4j 5, was released in November, and Alyson Welch was named Chief Revenue Officer in March 2023.
“As the globe grows more linked, so does our data, making the links between data and metadata matter more than ever,” said Hasbe. “Graph helps organizations discover hidden links and patterns across billions of data connections. I came to Neo4j because graph will one day be basic for every contemporary enterprise.”
