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    Chris Butler

    Chris Butler

    Director of AI @infobeans-accelarate • Founder @complete-seating • Product/BD at @kayak, @horizons-ventures, @waze, @microsoft • Studied ENG at @boston-university

    Product Manager New York City Boston University '00
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    Experience
    InfoBeans Accelerate
    InfoBeans Accelerate
    Director of AI
    Previously Director of Product Strategy.
    Reserve
    Reserve
    Advisor
    Nodal
    Nodal
    Advisor
    Rene Diaz
    Rene Diaz
    Product consultant 2014 - Present (about 12 years)
    * Product and business strategy for BLADE, the "the first digitally driven ​short distance aviation company"​ (aka "the Uber for helicopters").

    * Classification and... more sentiment analysis of social media for Stanford University using a machine learning and CrowdFlower/Mechanical Turk in tandem to scale a process for processing millions of records fast and at low cost.
    KAYAK
    KAYAK
    Director of Global Mobile Monetization 2014 - 2015 (7 months)
    Horizons Digital Group
    Horizons Digital Group
    Director of Product 2013 - 2014 (about 1 year)
    Waze
    Exit
    Waze
    Director of Business Development 2011 - 2013 (over 1 year)
    Complete Seating
    Complete Seating
    Founder, Founder 2010 - 2014 (over 3 years)
    * Directed product offering from a strategic and tactical point of view for reservation, waitlist and seating SaaS.

    * Full stack development of core product using Ruby... more on Rails, MySQL, MongoDB, SASS/Compass, jQuery, jQuery UI, and Backbone.js.

    * Integrated with Twilio, SendGrid and other service providers to enhance offering.

    * Directly selling to restaurants.

    * Business development including partnership with Cornell Hospitality School academic research.
    Zvents
    Exit
    Zvents
    Business Development Manager 2009 - 2010 (about 1 year)
    Dash Navigation
    Dash Navigation
    Content Platform Evangelist 2008 (8 months)
    Microsoft
    Microsoft
    Senior Lead Program Manager 2000 - 2008 (over 7 years)
    Founder
    Complete Seating
    Employee
    Microsoft, KAYAK, Rene Diaz, Waze, Zvents, InfoBeans Accelerate, Dash Navigation, Horizons Digital Group
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    Reserve, Nodal
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    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Locations
    New York City San Francisco
     
    Q&A
    What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

    Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt. SPIN Selling is a close second.

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