Zach is a native of Los Angeles that grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated from Fern Creek High School, attended University of Mississippi, University of Louisville, and graduated from the Marion Military Institute in Alabama, where is was commissioned as an officer in the US Army and served in the Signal Corps as a communications officer. He started his career in the private sector as a business manager and technical advisor at a regional telecommunications company based in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1997, Zach moved to Los Angeles where he became a business consultant with a focus on mergers and acquisitions of both public and private companies. In 2006, he joined a boutique international business advisory firm as a Vice President with a focus on facilitating public listings of foreign companies on US exchanges and foreign acquisitions of US companies.
In 2009, after relocating to New York City, he began consulting with independent producers on financing and distribution opportunities and eventually transitioned into a Producing feature films and the launch of a sales agency and distributor. He has overseen development, production and distribution of many feature films, bringing a strong business acumen with a focus on creating high quality content both efficiently and profitably.
In April 2014, Zach returned to Los Angeles and co-founded Stargazer Films with Shane O’Brien.
Zach is a member of the Producers Guild of America and the Producers Peer Group in the Television Academy.
