Zach Hunt is a partner and president of The Strategy Group. With a background in entertainment, he is a storyteller at heart.

A connector by nature, he has a knack for bringing people together and being able to connect with people from Forbes List members to ordinary Joes.

For 12 years, Zach lived in Southern California where he worked in the Film/Television industry. After more than a decade of overseeing large-scale projects from conception to the screen for HBO, Universal, Sony and Warner Bros., his tremendous experience in high-level project management and mass communication led him back to Nashville.

Since returning to Nashville, Zach has worked with the leaders of some of Tennessee’s largest businesses and institutions — from Ingram Industries, HCA, and Vanderbilt University to First Horizon National Bank and The Rockefeller Foundation. Recently, he helped lead a group of investors win a Major League Soccer expansion franchise and a subsequent campaign for a public/private partnership to finance a new stadium in Nashville.

Zach also led the messaging and awareness campaign that supported the legal defense of Cyntoia Brown — a woman incarcerated as a juvenile for murder. This effort resulted in international attention and ended in the Governor of Tennessee ultimately granting her early clemency in 2019.

Zach’s role with The Strategy Group is to assist clients in all aspects of communication strategy, crisis management, community engagement, government affairs and organizational consulting. He has expertise in helping to see large development projects through to completion and also has deep knowledge and expertise in the affordable housing sector. An entrepreneur at his core, he leads the business development vision for the firm.