Dennis Butts

Background

About Dennis Butts

Dennis has been running small businesses in a variety of areas including online retail, rental real estate, and a Sylvan Learning franchise. He has used his years of experience to improve and help the businesses thrive. Prior to that he spent over 25 years in the chemical and energy industries, in management roles and carrying out various forms of technical and financial risk assessment across the industry, as well as time leading the Enterprise Risk Management team at a major risk consulting organization. His cumulative risk management consulting experience covers various forms of technical and financial risk assessment for refining, petrochemicals, storage terminals (LNG, LPG, crude oil, and petroleum products), pipelines, ammonia facilities, offshore production facilities, and mobile drilling rigs. Dennis has also spent time in the strategic planning and acquisitions group of a major chemical company, with a role in leading efforts to prioritize and resource disaster recovery plans across the organization. He spent 5 years in that firm as the chief financial officer of their global electronic chemicals business, where he worked in the preparation and implementation of the BCM plan required by that business’ major semiconductor customers, in addition to support of mergers & acquisitions and divestitures, strategic planning, and capital project analysis.