Keith Butters
Co-founder, Chief Experience Officer :: New York office
Keith Butters is a co-founder of The Barbarian Group, and currently serves as the company’s Chief Experience Officer (CXO). Keith oversees the creative, technical and user experience departments of The Barbarian Group, along with their integration, collaboration, and processes, to ensure that the company’s work is made as well as possible, and in as efficient a manner as possible. Additionally, as a co-founder, he acts as a new business and client service executive for several clients.
Keith is the man who built the Subservient Chicken. There. We said it. He hates it when we say that. He’s pretty humble. But it’s true. Keith is a hands-on CXO, and has served as the lead architect of almost every astonishing front end Flash design project we’ve done. He has been heading up much of the company’s software development as well.
In addition to being a published author on the subject, Keith serves as chief “woah that was hella complicated” Flash guy. He specializes in inventing new stuff, interacting with databases in ridiculously complex manners, and making interfaces that you didn’t really think could be so clean. For the past eight years, Keith has been specializing on “the perfect marriage of back end to front,” seamlessly bending complex technology with simple, compelling creative to create a unified, functional site that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Keith attended the University of Iowa, where he received a BA in Media Production and Film Psychology.
Keith attended the University of Iowa, where he received a BA in Media Production and Film Psychology.
The Barbarian Group is an award-winning digital marketing services company. Founded in 2001, The Barbarian Group is run by its founding partners Benjamin Palmer, Rick Webb and Keith Butters and is a subsidiary of Cheil Worldwide. They partner with the best brands, technology companies and content creators to help navigate the treacherous waters where advertising, user experience, technology and marketing merge to create some of the most successful work on the web.

