Derek Butcher Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Managing team responsible for unlocking and improving 3P app and web monetization, including Immersive Ads in 3D environments, and using LLM’s / Generative AI (content understanding, context aware creatives) and Conversational AI to better match user intent and reduce intrusiveness.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Sagelytics (SageProtocol) built a blockchain based work reputation platform, using structured, signed data and a weighted connection graph to efficiently identify the best candidate for a job.• Recruited CTO/Co-Founder and designer to rapidly iterate on four MVP’s in six months, as side project to day job, until first $15k customer• Chosen by Wolfram | Alpha as their first partner to help develop and refine their blockchain oracle system

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Afar is a new kind of travel company that provides travel inspiration, a trip planner, and travel guides for cities and countries around the world, leveraging user-generated and editorially produced content.• As first digital hire, led the strategy and implementation of site from concept, with digital accounting for majority of $15M in company revenue (60 employees)• Architected and managed development of custom geo layer built on Google Maps API, allowing geo-spatial search and geo-based ad targeting, achieving ad CPM rates of 7-10x travel industry standard• Finalist 2016 Webby Awards; Awarded “Best Travel Web Site” by LA Times, ASME, Society of American Travel Writers

The Industry Standard was a tech industry/B2B prediction market. Tech professionals used “Standard dollars” to place bets on whether, and when, major product launches, acquisitions, etc. would happen, with the current bet price indicating probability.• Wrote business plan and gained $1M in funding from IDG. While working at another division of IDG, recruited developers, design, and sales from other parts of IDG to assist with prototype as a side project• Achieved 26% avg monthly user growth for first year, to 1.6M users; profitable with over $1M in first year revenue • Awarded “Best Web Site of 2008” by IDG Founder/Chairman Pat McGovern, out of 450 IDG-funded web sites worldwide• Launch coverage (Feb, 2008) by the New York Times, AP, TechCrunch and 33 other publications

San Francisco, Ca, Us

InfoWorld is a $50M/year B2B company providing news, reviews, analysis, and research to senior technology managers. InfoWorld is owned by parent company International Data Group (IDG). • Helped lead company back to profitability as part of executive team reporting to CEO, including co-managing the transition of the media property to digital after 25 years of print publishing, thereby reducing costs by over 40%• Selected with 30 other IDG employees out of 13,000 IDG employees worldwide to attend IDG Global Media Management Institute program.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Architected and led development of new content management system and site re-launch that doubled traffic to 2M users• Selected with 50 other IDG employees out of 5,000 IDG US employees to attend IDG US Media Management Institute

Infoseek was one of the first major search engines, and was acquired by Disney Internet Group as the hub of the go.com portal, consisting of Infoseek, ABCNews, ABC, and ESPN, with 52M daily pageviews. This position reported directly to the CTO of 2,000-person Disney Internet Group.• Spearheaded the concept, design, and execution of cross-site web services, providing a standardized way for various Disney-owned sites (ESPN, ABCNEWS, Go.com, Disney Online) to efficiently interface with a 17-million-record user database• Led team to improve response time of system, allowing dynamic building of customized pages for millions of users per day, and effective sharing of user profile information across Disney sites. • Managed recruitment to grow team by 300% to 16 people in 2 months. Increased morale and achieved 100% retention rate over 2 year period; the highest for any department in the company.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Sunnyvale, California, Us

The HIT Lab was a public/private virtual reality and augmented reality research lab on the campus of the University of Washington.• Managed development and helped write code for virtual reality "Brain World" educational simulation. Project was one of the pioneering uses of virtual reality in education, and was selected for a grant by the US Air Force.