Zack is a serial entrepreneur with 15 years of leadership in enterprise software. He's spent his entire career bouncing between 0-to-1 building and massive enterprise scale. His work focuses on giving structure to unstructured data and improving knowledge worker productivity. He's been featured in Fortune, TechCrunch, Mashable, and with the FTC.
Work
- Elysian, CTOMar 2026 - Current
AI platform modernizing commercial claims administration from the ground up.
- Waystone Labs, Founder, CEOFeb 2026 - Current
Research lab for agentic workflows.
- Mutual Friend Productions, Co-Founder & ProducerNov 2023 - Current
Making it easier to bring great theatre to life.
- Afterword, Co-Founder, CTOApr 2021 - Jan 2026
The only AI assistant for funeral homes, serving 20K+ families.
- Workday, Director of EngineeringAug 2017 - Apr 2021
Founding team member of Workday Cloud Platform / Workday Extend.
- Pattern (acq. by Workday), Co-Founder, CTOFeb 2015 - Aug 2017
The enterprise notepad for teams, acquired by Workday.
- Google, SWE, DoubleClick, SMB & Google [x]Aug 2012 - Feb 2015
Sales tools and automations across DoubleClick, SMB, and [x].
- Wildfire (acq. by Google), Software Engineer, BizOpsJul 2011 - Aug 2012
Core business systems scaling to 400 employees before Google acquisition.