Jim Butler

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C-Level Technology Executive @ Bombora
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Greater Boston, United States, United States
About Jim Butler

Dr. Jim Butler is the Chief Technology Officer of Bombora, the industry leader in B2B intent data. Prior to Bombora, Jim served as CTO of Stavvy and HqO; early stage companies within the mortgage and commercial real estate sectors, respectively. Previously, Jim was CTO of Global Supply Platforms for Verizon Media, a journey that began as CTO of Nexage, which was later acquired by Millennial Media and then AOL/Verizon. During this arc, Jim also served as Co-Chair of the IAB/OpenRTB, leading the standards for real-time digital media commerce. Other CTO roles included eCredit, a B2B credit decisioning platform later acquired by Fidelity Ventures and now owned and operated by Moody’s.From 2002-2022, Jim served as the founding Chairman of the Technology Leadership Council, Boston Chapter. He is the author of the 2003 book “Technology Blueprints: Technology Foundations for High Performance Companies” along with numerous technical publications in IEEE, ACM, and other journals and conferences, as well as three granted patents in the areas of digital media and reliable web service architecture. Jim holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, a Masters in Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BSEE Magna Cum Laude from the University of Lowell.

Jim Butler's Current Company Details
Bombora

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Jim Butler Work Experience Details
  • Bombora
    Chief Technology Officer
    Bombora Nov 2024 - Present
    New York, New York, Us
  • Stavvy
    Chief Technology Officer
    Stavvy May 2023 - Nov 2024
    Boston, Ma, Us
  • Grid Nova, Inc.
    Founder & Principal
    Grid Nova, Inc. Mar 2005 - May 2023
    Consulting client industries have included aerospace & defense, financial services, sports & media, technology (e.g., software-as-a-service), and offshore software development.
  • Hqo
    Chief Technology Officer
    Hqo Apr 2019 - Apr 2022
    Boston, Ma, Us
    B2B2C Workplace experience and engagement platform that enables commercial property teams to create modern, flexible environments that optimize employee satisfaction and productivity.▪︎ Led the Technology operation as we drove HqO’s valuation from under $50M to north of $700M in 3 years (during the pandemic) as measured by Series B, C, and strategic financing rounds.Designed the Platform microservices architecture that facilitated 60+ integrations with building systems and other services. The Platform vision drove higher valuation multiples vs. industry SaaS metrics.▪︎ Oversaw the company’s SOC-2 Type-II and ISO-27000 certifications that were essential to our competitive advantage as the enterprise-grade option. Ensured product compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and PIPEDA.▪︎ Central to the acquisition of Office App; an Amsterdam-based competitor. Led the tech and product due diligence and post-close integrations.▪︎ Grew the Engineering and TechOps teams from 12 to 100, including 30% offshore contractors.
  • Clypd, Inc.
    Advisory Board Member
    Clypd, Inc. Apr 2013 - Oct 2019
    Somerville, Ma, Us
    Technical advisor to this innovative startup in the domain of programmatic TV advertising.
  • Verizon Media
    Cto, Global Supply Platforms
    Verizon Media Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
    New York, New York, Us
    Verizon Media was the result of the merger of AOL & Yahoo. This division has since been spun off into what is now rebranded as Yahoo. The combined brands of AOL & Yahoo and a network of third-party publishers reach 1.3 billion unique consumers monthly. Its Global Supply business unit monetizes this audience via digital advertising.▪︎ Technology and architecture leader of the Global Supply business unit and its technology fleet that generate approximately $2B annually in top line revenue.▪︎ The Exchange we developed at Nexage (see below) is the go-forward technology, subsuming 4 previously existing AOL and Yahoo supply platforms, and processing roughly 60 billion requests/day.▪︎ Extended thought leadership to industry standards bodies as Co-Chair of OpenRTB since December 2010. The OpenRTB protocol became and remains the lingua franca of digital advertising.
  • Aol Platforms
    Vp Engineering, Publisher Platforms
    Aol Platforms Oct 2015 - Jun 2017
    At the time, AOL was a global digital media publishing house monetizing primarily via targeted advertising. I joined via the acquisition of Millennial Media in October 2015.▪︎ Led the deployment of the Nexage Exchange as AOL’s entrée into mobile advertising media along with the assimilation of the existing non-mobile AOL platform and team.▪︎ Promoted in 2016 to head Engineering for all publisher platforms with a total team of 300 people distributed across multiple U.S. locations, Ireland, Germany, France, India, and eastern Europe.
  • Millennial Media
    Svp Technology
    Millennial Media Dec 2014 - Oct 2015
    Baltimore, Md, Us
    At the time, Millennial Media was a demand-side mobile advertising solution. They acquired Nexage in December 2014 for our supply-side programmatic (i.e., Real-Time Bidding) exchange, thereby creating the first full-service, independent, mobile media marketplace. I joined via this acquisition.▪︎ Designated as one of only two key Nexage staff upon which the acquisition was contingent.▪︎ Led the successful transition of the Nexage Exchange technology resulting in a doubling of traffic with zero downtime. Ensured a healthy team transition as well with zero attrition related to the acquisition.
  • Nexage
    Cto & Svp Engineering
    Nexage Aug 2009 - Dec 2014
    Boston, Ma, Us
    Nexage created the first pure-play mobile marketplace for advertising media and was also the world’s first exchange to adopt the OpenRTB standard for real-time bidding (RTB).▪︎ Joined Nexage just after Series-A adding to their 5 employees and proof-of-concept product. Grew the team, delivered the technology, and navigated multiple M&A events to what would ultimately become the primary exchange platform of Verizon Media.▪︎ Drove a multi-phase deep architecture and infrastructure refactoring that achieved the sweet spot of performance scale (approximately 60 billion requests/day by 2019), a flat or decreasing cost/request curve, and repeatable uptime of 99.999%.▪︎ Chaired a group of 8 companies to develop OpenRTB, a protocol specification for real-time bidding. Adopted as an IAB standard a year later, hundreds of companies now transact billions of dollars in ad spend via the OpenRTB protocol. Served actively as Co-Chair of the IAB OpenRTB Standards Group through my tenure at Verizon Media.
  • Matchmine
    Cto & Vp Engineering
    Matchmine Jan 2007 - Oct 2008
    Us
    matchmine was a Media Discovery Network for users to experience highly personalized content through a network of media partners and a portable, anonymous, and evolving set of preferences. These personal yet secure preferences would be the basis for $CPM lift among otherwise untargeted ad inventory. matchmine was defunded during the recession of October 2008.▪︎ Founding CTO responsible for technology strategy, engineering delivery, and infrastructure build-out. Designed the architecture, major components, and certain algorithms of its web services platform.
  • Pioneer Investments
    Enterprise Architecture Consultant
    Pioneer Investments Nov 2005 - Feb 2006
    Boston , Ma, Us
    Performed a strategic assessment of numerous applications used throughout their investor communications operation to determine disposition (e.g., augment, decommission, replace) and launched remedial actions.
  • Ecredit.Com, Inc.
    Cto & Evp
    Ecredit.Com, Inc. Jul 2001 - Jan 2005
    Us
    eCredit automates B2B credit decisioning and collections through a variety of SaaS applications and data services. The company is currently called Cortera and is now a Moody’s company.▪︎ Joined eCredit as a key turn-around executive following the dot-com crisis. Critical objectives included restructuring the U.S. and captive India Engineering operations, rearchitecting and rebuilding the core product line to a modern SaaS model, and helping to realign the business overall to its core values.▪︎ Director on the Board of its wholly owned offshore subsidiary, eCredit India Pvt. Ltd.▪︎ Results included a new technology platform that won the 2003 SIIA Codie Award for “Best Business Product or Service” and 3 successful financing rounds that ultimately led to acquisition by Fidelity.
  • Bae Systems
    Systems Engineering Consultant
    Bae Systems Apr 2001 - Jul 2001
    London, Gb
    Redesigned the methodology of large-scale systems engineering to embrace object-oriented technologies. This was pioneering in that object-oriented engineering has rarely been applied to life-critical, multi-disciplinary systems on a $1 billion scale. The result was initially applied to an $8 billion defense contract.
  • J.P. Morgan Chase
    Systems Architecture Consultant
    J.P. Morgan Chase Jan 2001 - Mar 2001
    New York, Ny, Us
    Architect and senior designer of an Internet-based invoicing and payment engine for B2B eMarketplaces. This application extends client eMarketplaces by accepting multiple XML protocols and integrating with Chase credit card and funds transfer systems. Responsibilities included system-wide architecture design, specification of all application components, and detailed design of several of these components.
  • Ec Cubed, Inc.
    Chief Application Architect
    Ec Cubed, Inc. Jun 2000 - Dec 2000
    B2B eCommerce firm, which executes a "build to order" model for the design, development, and hosting of eMarketplaces and portals.▪︎ Directed a team of 8 architects for this B2B eCommerce firm engaged in build-to-order eMarketplaces, consulted frequently with customers, and conducted architecture reviews and system designs.▪︎ The company closed due to 70% revenue exposure to dot-com casualties. I met my wife there, however, so while my EC Cubed experience was short-lived, it was a smashing success!
  • American Management Systems
    Senior Principal / Chief Architect
    American Management Systems Apr 1996 - Jun 2000
    AMS was a $1 billion technology consulting firm, which was later acquired by CGI.▪︎ Chief Architect for all product development efforts within the Consumer Finance Industry practice including a radical evolution of credit decisioning products to a distributed computing architecture.▪︎ Architect of a high volume, real-time credit/collections system for CapitalOne and leader of its software infrastructure team. Architect for other consulting engagements including Internet banking strategies for Royal Bank of Canada, data warehousing for Ameritech, and various credit decisioning projects.
  • Raytheon Company
    Senior Systems Development Engineer
    Raytheon Company Oct 1981 - Mar 1996
    Arlington, Va, Us
    ▪︎ Started as a second-shift Technician repairing missile guidance seekers while earning my B.S. degree. Finished as the Lead Systems Engineer for the $80 million computing infrastructure of a $1.4 billion surveillance network for the Brazilian Amazon.▪︎ Designed and implemented advanced technology projects including Air Traffic Control initiatives, a Personal Rapid Transit prototype, and a Commercial Aircraft Over-Flight Prediction System.▪︎ Designed and launched an integrated network for manufacturing, workflow, and compliance systems in concert with an ISO-9000 TQM program. Designed realtime hardware and software test systems for missile manufacturing. Credited with myriad cross-discipline innovations.▪︎ Raytheon fully funded my M.S. and Ph.D. studies during this timeframe as a Miccioli Scholar.
  • University Of Washington
    Software Consultant
    University Of Washington Jan 1992 - Aug 1995
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Pro bono consulting to the Human Genome Project. Heuristic algorithms research directed at computational problems in DNA sequencing. An order of magnitude performance improvement was achieved.

Jim Butler Skills

Agile Methodologies Software Development Saas System Architecture Start Ups Architecture Web Services Engineering Enterprise Software Integration Distributed Systems Scalability Mobile Applications Software As A Service Architectures Java Enterprise Edition Xml Mobile Devices

Jim Butler Education Details

  • University Of Maryland
    University Of Maryland
    Electrical Engineering
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Electrical Engineering
  • University Of Massachusetts Lowell
    University Of Massachusetts Lowell
    Electrical Engineering
  • Wentworth Institute Of Technology
    Wentworth Institute Of Technology
    Electrical Engineering

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