Levels
Levels helps you see how food affects your health.
Zac joined Levels as its Head of Legal in 2021. He within his first month he kicked off the company’s $38 million Series A, which included helping over a thousand Levels members invest in the company alongside its major institutional investors like a16z and Trust Ventures.
Zac loves being a part of Levels. In addition to working to solve an insanely difficult and important problem — the global metabolic health crisis — the company has rebuilt the workplace around concepts of deep work, priorities-focused building, and treating people like adults. Levels operates the way every company ought to, and Zac considers it a privilege to get to help build it.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Prior to joining Levels, Zac was a litigator at the best litigation firm in the world. His work focused primarily on commercial litigation and regulatory white-collar matters. Zac’s colleagues at K&E were some of the most talented attorneys he’s ever known, and he counts himself lucky to have worked with each of them.
The United States Court of Appeals
After graduating from The University of Chicago Law School, Zac spent two years clerking for federal appellate judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit — the last stop before the Supreme Court for all cases arising within the Seventh Circuit’s midwestern jurisdiction.
Zac honed his thinking and writing skills working for some of the best legal minds in the country, including a now-Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Testmasters
A through-line for Zac is that he has always loved teaching. Zac taught formal logic classes to thousands of aspiring law students through Testmasters, the first test prep company to offer instruction on the LSAT.
The Testmasters faculty is a brainy bunch: to teach for Testmasters, aspiring teachers must have an official 99th percentile LSAT, and make it through a rigorous teaching curriculum.
In addition to teaching, Zac taught other instructors, was a part of the research and development team, and helped stand up Testmasters’s company-wide academic support program.
and whole lot more . . .
In addition to the above, Zac has worn a whole millinery‘s worth of hats. He’s been a cheesemonger, founded a professional improv comedy troupe, and managed fine dining restaurants and coffee shops. For a time he was a professional slam poet and competed at the national poetry slam; another time, he was a licensed massage therapist (back when he thought he might pay music as a career and needed a way to make ends meet). He taught English and Ethics in Puebla Mexico for a year and a half, and (unsuccessfully) sold used cars for a week and a half. His first job was as a (literal) street peddler when he was fourteen years old, where he accidentally worked for a nightmare multi-level marketing company called DS-Max (This redditor isn’t Zac (promise), but it’s a wild read, and hits all the high notes from the DS-Max experience). Ask me my favorite DS-Max story some time — it’s a good one.