Zach has over 25 years of experience leading programs in knowledge and information management. He has worked with more than 200 public and private organizations to successfully strategize, design, and implement advanced knowledge management and semantic solutions. Zach has served on the board of the Knowledge Management Institute and as the Chairman of the Institute for International Research (IIR) Enterprise Web, Portals, and Collaborative Technologies conference. He presently serves as the Chairman of the annual Semantic Layer Symposium, as faculty for the Knowledge Management Institute, and a frequent guest lecturer at some of the world’s most esteemed knowledge and information schools. He is the coauthor of ‘Making Knowledge Management Clickable,’ published by Springer in 2022 and 'Bridging Knowledge, Data, and AI: Harnessing the Semantic Layer Framework to Drive Intelligence,' published by Springer in 2026. Under his leadership, EK has consistently been recognized as a great place to work, most recently by Washington Business Journal, Inc. Magazine, and the Washingtonian.