Mark Woodhams

Chief Revenue Officer Neo4j

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Mark Woodhams — known professionally as “Woody” — is Chief Revenue Officer of Neo4j, the graph database company whose technology now sits underneath a large share of enterprise knowledge-graph and GraphRAG deployments. He took the role in July 2025 and owns the company’s global field and partner operations, its services organization and customer success. He arrived directly from BlackLine, the Nasdaq-listed accounting automation company, where he had been Chief Revenue Officer for four and a half years and where revenue roughly tripled during his tenure. Before that he spent six years at NetSuite, joining as EMEA sales director and leaving as a managing director, having helped turn a handful of people into a sales organization of several hundred. His career runs back more than three decades through Oracle, Hyperion, Capgemini and Citicorp, and he has worked extensively on both sides of the Atlantic; he is based in London.

Career Highlights

• Appointed Chief Revenue Officer of Neo4j, announced 8 July 2025, leading the global field and partner operations, services and customer success organizations.
• Served as Chief Revenue Officer of BlackLine, Inc. from January 2021 until his retirement, effective 2 June 2025, and was one of five executive officers listed in the company’s 2024 proxy statement.
• Grew BlackLine’s revenue from roughly $200 million to roughly $600 million as CRO, according to Neo4j — a tripling of revenue for a product line that was already a decade old.
• Joined BlackLine in July 2018 as Senior Vice President of Global Sales, moving up to the CRO seat two and a half years later.
• Served as a managing director at NetSuite from August 2014 to June 2018 and as its EMEA sales director from February 2012 to August 2014; Neo4j credits him with scaling a six-person team into a 700-strong sales organization during NetSuite’s expansion and acquisition phase.
• More than 35 years across cloud, financial and professional services companies including NetSuite, Oracle, Hyperion, Capgemini and Citicorp.

Professional Journey

Woodhams describes his own start in enterprise software as unglamorous and formative: cold calls, demos, partner and account management. That grounding — learning to persist and to listen, one conversation at a time — is the thing he credits for how he later thought about scale. The employers that follow in his record are a tour of the industry’s last three decades: Citicorp, Capgemini, Hyperion, then Oracle, which absorbed Hyperion in 2007.

He joined NetSuite in February 2012 as EMEA sales director and was promoted to managing director in August 2014, holding that role until June 2018. This was NetSuite’s period of steepest growth and heaviest acquisition activity, culminating in Oracle’s purchase of the company. Neo4j’s account of the period credits him with taking a six-person team and building it into a sales organization of roughly 700 — a figure that, like the revenue numbers, comes from his new employer rather than from an independent source.

In July 2018 he moved to BlackLine as Senior Vice President of Global Sales, and in January 2021 the company promoted him to Chief Revenue Officer. He held the role through a leadership transition at the top of the company — BlackLine moved to a co-CEO structure under Owen Ryan and founder Therese Tucker in 2023 — and through a stretch in which the company’s revenue roughly tripled. On 13 January 2025 BlackLine announced that he would retire effective 2 June 2025 and that Stuart Van Houten would join as Chief Commercial Officer in February, taking over the global sales team.

Five weeks after that retirement took effect, Neo4j announced him as its Chief Revenue Officer. His stated reason for the move was the technology itself rather than the job title: he said he had met chief executive Emil Eifrem, seen what customers were achieving with graph, and been “hooked”, and he framed the combination of graph, AI and market demand as an inflection point for the company. His operating principles, as he sets them out, are the absence of silos between sales, marketing, product, finance and engineering, and simplicity in the sales process. Neo4j’s leadership page continues to list him in the role.

Education

No education record could be established. This is a documented absence rather than an unfinished search: BlackLine’s proxy statement gives degrees for other executive officers in the same biographical section but none for Woodhams, and neither Neo4j’s leadership bio nor its announcement of his hire names any institution.