Our story began in 2012 as a simple idea- today, people are placing more value on experiences than material things. We took a bold leap and one year later, we produced our first event in Houston, Texas.

That simple idea launched our first experience: The Mud Challenger Adventure Series: an unpredictable, terrain-based challenge that brings thousands of participants into the wilderness for a day of challenges and camaraderie. That first event sold out with over 2000 attendees, and in 2015, Mud Challenger was dubbed as one of the best obstacle and endurance races in the United States. Our brand presence was a home-run, and since then, we’ve established a following for Fathom and our experientially-focused events of different flavors.

In 2015, we launched Festival Haus, our Flagship Music and Entertainment brand, that is slated to announce a variety of new music festivals and intimate live concerts in 2020, featuring renowned headliners and emerging artists. Our next productions include city-wide mega festivals, intimate concerts, and historic once-in-a-lifetime music events.

Today, we focus our creative energy in 4 core areas: Athletics, Festivals & Concerts, Production Services, and Fathom Technology Labs. We put great emphasis on the strategy, logistics, and execution behind what makes great brands and the story telling that captures our audience. Fathom is a creative studio, an idea factory, a group of logisitical innovators and world-class story tellers, our craft is creating incredible experiences to share with the world.

Sammy Butts is the Founder and CEO of Fathom Producers and Festival Haus. He spearheads the various objectives, strategy, and all productions / projects at Fathom.

Originally from a small town in East Texas, he moved to Houston in 2006, where he attended the University of Houston and studied Architecture. Immediately following college, Sammy worked in the Architecture profession while he concurrently launched Fathom. After the first event in late 2013, he resigned from architecture and focused his energy on creating bigger and better experiences, and growing Fathom into the production studio it is today.

Sammy’s pedigree is a result of broad-ranging expertise in various areas- from his passion for music and live performances, digital content, marketing, production design, and publishing, to film making, storytelling, and the arts.