Michael Down

I help the world’s largest banks solve their hardest problems in financial crime, risk and regulatory compliance, and I take the real-time data platforms behind those solutions to market — turning deep technical capability into the positioning, narrative and demand that resonate with the people who actually buy: the CTOs, risk leaders and engineers inside those banks.

I’ve spent over a decade in and around financial services data: from real-time platforms at Barclays acting on billions of events a day, to search, observability and analytics at Elastic, to leading the financial services business at Neo4j. I know how banks evaluate, buy and deploy infrastructure, and because I come from a deeply technical background, I can talk strategy with a bank’s CTO and still get hands-on with the queries and implementation detail alongside their engineers.

As Global Head of Financial Services at Neo4j I own the vertical end to end: the positioning and messaging, the content and use-case library that ranks where buyers search, the executive community I founded and host, and the product and acquisition strategy that decides where we invest. I work across product marketing, product and the field, because winning a vertical takes all three moving together.