Dr. Jay Yu is the VP of Product and Innovation at TigerGraph, responsible for driving product strategy and roadmap, as well as fostering innovation in graph database engine and solutions. He is a proven hands-on full-stack innovator, strategic thinker, leader, and evangelist for new technology and product, with 25+ years of industry experience ranging from highly scalable distributed database engine company (Teradata), B2B e-commerce services startup, to consumer-facing financial applications company (Intuit). At Intuit, he drove e2e data architecture and strategy, including successfully adopted graph technologies in production on large-scale data in entity resolution, customer 360 and fraud detection use cases. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he specialized in large scale parallel database systems