THE TEAM
Operators, not advisors.

Greg
Butterfield
MANAGING PARTNER
+ VIEW BIOGreg has led multiple companies to over $1B in valuation, taking two public as CEO and Chairman and guiding several more through IPO and exit. He serves frequently as Board Chairman and mentors CEOs across industries. Greg is a Utah Technology Hall of Fame inductee, an EY Entrepreneur of the Year, and an invited attendee of the World Economic Forum. He is fluent across every functional discipline of the businesses he builds. Away from work, Greg is a father and grandfather, active in multiple charities, and rarely far from a golf course, a surfboard, a ski slope, a mountain bike, or a new place to travel.
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Travis
Marc Wilson
PARTNER, GENERAL COUNSEL
+ VIEW BIOTravis brings a corporate law practice built on complex business transactions: mergers and acquisitions, corporate securities, private equity and venture capital, and real estate. He is also Managing Director of MERIT Venture Partners, directing the firm's small-to-middle-market buyout and seed and growth-stage equity investments. Travis has guided hundreds of corporate transactions on both sides of the table: raising capital and deploying it.
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Alexander
Hume
BOARD & FRACTIONAL CFO
+ VIEW BIOAlexander is a CFO, board member, and CPA with 20+ years advising private equity-backed, venture-backed, and public companies through growth, transformation, and rising financial complexity. He served as principal accounting officer and corporate controller for an $85 billion public company, and today is fractional CFO and a board member for a global digital health technology company. He specializes in finance transformation, technical accounting, SEC reporting, and M&A integration, and is known for turning regulatory complexity into clear, decision-ready guidance for boards, sponsors, and lenders.
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Jan
Newman
PARTNER
+ VIEW BIOJan has built and sold companies at real scale. He started as a software engineer at Novell, founded KeyLabs and sold it to Exodus Communications for $42 million, then founded Altiris, which went public in 2002 and was acquired by Symantec for more than $1 billion. He now advises solar, software, and technology firms on strategic direction and serves on the board of Westland Construction.
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Mylie
Derrick
HEAD OF MARKETING
+ VIEW BIOMylie leads marketing for SageCreek while completing a B.S. in Marketing at BYU's Marriott School of Business, where she consulted on brand strategy at the BYU Marketing Lab. Her experience spans real estate, home building, door manufacturing, and a wellness app, running content, email, and brand campaigns across each. She also has a fine arts background, and spent a summer at New York's Grand Central Atelier studying classical oil painting. In her free time, she loves spending time outdoors skiing, hiking, and running.
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Connor
McLeod
CO-FOUNDER, SAGECREEK AI
+ VIEW BIOConnor leads SageCreek AI's strategy, go-to-market, and the executive conversations where engagements begin. He built AI and ML products as VP of Product at JPMorgan Chase, shipped recommendation and personalization systems at Ancestry, and founded a Y Combinator-backed company before co-founding SageCreek AI. His focus: finding where AI creates real leverage for a business, then turning it into a plan, not a slide deck.
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Bob
Bodily, PhD
CO-FOUNDER & CTO, SAGECREEK AI
+ VIEW BIOBob leads SageCreek AI's technical strategy. He holds a PhD in data science, spent years as Director of Data Science at Lumen Learning, and has published research in the field. He has built machine-learning models and data pipelines for Fortune 500 companies, and founded and operated a Bitcoin exchange that processed more than $1 billion in transaction volume before co-founding SageCreek AI. He has seen what happens when ambitious technology meets real customers, real money, and consequences bigger than a demo.
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Brian
Crowley
PARTNER
+ VIEW BIOBrian has spent 25 years in enterprise SaaS sales, closing deals with Visa, Mastercard, US Bank, and CDW at companies including Salesforce and Shopify. He's known for C-suite conversations that turn into signed contracts, and now brings that pipeline-to-close discipline to SageCreek's go-to-market and AI consulting work.
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Chris
Shipley
CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER
+ VIEW BIOChris has led revenue and growth functions at scale, most recently as President of Shipley Holdings and before that as Chief Growth Officer at LGCY Power, where he built the company's partner and new-home-builder sales channels and helped make it one of the country's leading residential solar installers. He previously served as CRO at Canvass and started his career in marketing at Verizon. Chris holds an MBA from the University of Utah.
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