Zach Hunt is a partner  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 more than a decade, 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, AJ Capital, and Vanderbilt University to Nashville Soccer Club and The Rockefeller Foundation. He has been a strategic force behind some of the city’s largest endeavors of the last decade, including helping a group of investors win a Major League Soccer expansion franchise, a subsequent campaign for a public/private partnership to finance the new stadium in Nashville, and ultimately helping Nashville SC navigate construction of their stadium and introduction of the team into the market.

Zach also has extensive experience in land use, development and affordable housing, helping many navigate tricky regulatory approval processes, community building and project communications, and challenging thought leadership and reputation work. He has a wide network of development contacts that have made work on behalf of multiple developers come across the finish line successfully.

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 media 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.