Thomas Butta - Brand Innovators

Thomas Butta

Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Airship

Thomas Butta is the Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Airship.

Butta brings over two decades of marketing leadership and brand positioning expertise that has accelerated growth and established market leadership for several global enterprise SaaS companies. He hosts Masters of MAX: The Mobile App Experience Podcast, where brand leaders and experts share how they navigate the twisty path to mobile app mastery. Prior to joining Airship, Butta was CMO at SignalFx, and before that Sprinklr, where he redefined brand value around software observability and customer experience management respectively. Before that, Butta was a consultant in residence for Andreessen Horowitz, where he developed the firm’s points-of-view on market-changing technologies that supported its industry-leading executive briefing program on innovation. His career spans CMO leadership roles at AppNexus, NICE Systems, Parametric Technology Corporation and Red Hat, among others.

Butta serves as a director of YSA.org, a leading global nonprofit that activates young people to solve problems facing their communities. He is an advisor to early-stage companies, a speaker on many podcasts, a guest lecturer to graduate students, and holds a BA in English and Economics from Hamilton College. He completed executive education studies at Harvard Business School.