Jim Butler Email Address

Chief Technology Officer

Jim Butler serves as VP of Engineering for Publisher Platforms within AOL and as a Co-Chair of OpenRTB; the IAB sponsored standards body for real-time programmatic digital media commerce. Prior to AOL, Jim was the CTO of Nexage, the premier real-time mobile media exchange. Nexage was acquired by Millennial Media in 2014, which was then acquired by AOL Platforms. Prior to Nexage, Jim was CTO of matchmine, a media discovery network, where he provided technical leadership in the areas of Architecture, Engineering, and Operations. In the aftermath of the dot-com era, Jim was instrumental in the turnaround of eCredit.com, an enterprise SaaS software company later acquired by Fidelity Ventures. Jim has held Chief Architect positions at EC Cubed and American Management Systems as well as various architecture, engineering, and consulting roles at Pioneer Investments, JP Morgan Chase, CapitalOne, Ameritech, Royal Bank of Canada, Boston Consulting Group, BAE Systems, and Raytheon Company.Since 2002, Jim has 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 two granted patents in the area of reliable web service architecture. Jim holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, an Masters in Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BSEE Magna Cum Laude from the University of Lowell.Specialties: Architecture, Scalability, Reliability, SaaS Operations, Web Services, Agile Development, Offshore Development, Aligning Technology & Business Strategies.