About zack

Zack Kass is one of the world’s foremost authorities on applied AI

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Trusted by executives and organizations who’ve experienced Zack’s impact firsthand.

We have received all extremely positive comments. He was just incredible at providing different perspectives in a VERY though provoking way. We would highly recommend him …

Institutional Investors Conference
2024
,  
Baird

We recommend all of our clients talk to Zack about their corporate AI strategy. He's seen it all and can connect dots faster than anyone.

Arjun Prakash
Co-founder & CEO
,  
Distyl AI

The audience loved Zack’s speech … With Zack we have a great keynote speaker and set the bar very high for future events

Stephanie Jost
Deloitte Day HR Nex
,  
Deloitte

Few people understand how to apply AI to real world problems as well as Zack. He's been in the industry for so long, and has a remarkable knack for helping people learn what he knows.

Lukas Biewald
CEO & Co-Founder
,  
Weights & Biases

Zack helped us plan our entire AI strategy. He just gets it.

John Murphy
President
,  
The Coca-Cola Company

Your performance was 1st class. Great insights, and you pitched at the right level for our audience. Everyone said it was the best session of the day! It was brilliant.

Jeff McMillan
Chief Analytics and Data Officer
,  
Morgan Stanley

ZACK is phenomenal! Amazing speaker, great soul, and spirit. What a great person he is. He just sent me a text thanking me. That is amazing. I feel like I am now in his amazing circle. Thank you, Craig, for recommending Zack…this was a great choice.

Andric Bowen
CEO
,  
MetLife

Zack is easily the most business savvy AI expert I know.

Josh Tobin
CEO
,  
Gantry

Zack works to transform the AI's immense power into business strategies and applications that expand human potential.

For the last 16 years, Zack has been at the forefront of AI. Most recently he served as OpenAI's Head of Go-to-Market, building out the sales, solutions, and partnerships teams. Zack played a key role in commercializing AI and large language models, channeling OpenAI’s innovative research into tangible business solutions and serving as a personal advisor to many executives deploying AI across their companies.

Today, Zack’s mission is to help businesses, nonprofits, and governments navigate the rapidly evolving AI environment. His thought leadership has been featured in top publications, such as Fortune, Newsweek, Entrepreneur, and Business Insider. Zack continues to advise Fortune 1000 board rooms, including Coca-Cola, Morgan Stanley, and Samsung. He is also an Executive-in-Residence at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce and Chair of Ruder Finn’s AI Advisory Council.

career highlights

Head of Go-To-Market

OpenAI
2021-2023

Advisor and VP of Revenue

LILT
2017-2021

VP of Sales and Customer Support

Figure Eight
2017-2021
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