Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j

Emil Eifrem sketched what today is known as the property graph model on a flight to Mumbai way back when dinosaurs ruled the earth and has devoted his professional life to building, innovating, and evangelizing graph databases and graph analytics. He is also co-author of the O'Reilly book Graph Databases. Neo4j today helps more than 75 of the Fortune 100, and a community of over hundreds of thousands of practitioners find hidden relationships and patterns across billions of connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Emil plans to change the world with graphs and own Larry's yacht by the end of the decade.