
Before TigerGraph’s public launch, Yu Xu spent five years building a database designed to follow connections at scale. His journey runs from a payroll system in Hunan to Twitter, TigerGraph and a new chapter at Databricks.

The Aerospike CMO has spent nearly three decades turning difficult technology into legible business stories. His operating system is equal parts engineering discipline, customer evidence, and a healthy suspicion of confident machines.

From SAP cloud applications to social listening and graph AI, Paige Leidig has built a career translating complicated technology into a reason to care. His method is brisk, curious and unusually consistent: listen to customers, find the relationship, then make it useful.

After years building products at Google, NICE inContact, Rackspace, and Satmetrix, TigerGraph’s CEO has a deceptively simple thesis: intelligence gets useful when it understands relationships.