Craig Butler

VP Financial Engineering @Spotify

Scaled and presently manage 250+ person Stockholm- and New York-based technology organization supporting diversified revenue streams, products, and new market launches across 75+ markets and prepared for April 2018 IPO (direct listing)—all while reducing month-end close cycles by more than 50%. Tenure includes: – Directing two major, first-ever engineering development initiatives to support hyper-growth – Creating insights team to develop data sets providing visibility into key company / user metrics – Evolving Corporate IT into a productivity-focused team – Partnering with finance to develop process improvements – Implementing controls (ITGC) and expanding in-house engineering capacities supporting global business processes and 50+ million global subscribers