Jim Butterworth is a technology entrepreneur, documentary filmmaker, and former investment banker and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder of the nonprofit documentary production company Incite Productions, and a director and producer of the award-winning film Seoul Train. He is the President and founder of Naked Edge Films, which has produced more than a dozen documentaries, which have won an Oscar, two Alfred I. duPont Silver Batons, and have been nominated for three Emmys. He is also the inventor of 53 U.S. and foreign patents in the field of streaming media.
In 2007, he was awarded the Dartmouth College Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Award. In 2008, he was inducted into the Georgia Tech College of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni.
Butterworth graduated from Leon High School, the Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering, and from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College with a Masters of Business Administration.