Michael Zacharski

Strategic Executive | Value Creator | Investor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2025
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Investor & Co-Founder
May 2025
Advisor, Investor and Executive Consultant
Oct 2024
MadConnect is the Intelligent Connectivity Layer (ICL) powering the new era of modern marketing and advertising. Purpose-built to unify fragmented tech stacks, it enables platform-platform connectivity across the MarTech ecosystem within hours - without rebuilding or engineering lift. With native support for Model-Context Protocol (MCP), MadConnect AI-enables existing marketing stacks to immediately deliver agentic automation and intelligent workflows across businesses - securely and at scale. MadConnect Professional Services helps organizations accelerate implementation, refine data strategy, and unlock the full value of their existing marketing and advertising infrastructure. Founded in 2021, MadConnect is a trusted partner to leading agencies, brands, data providers, and platforms. To learn more, visit madconnect.ai.
Chief Executive Officer & Board Member - NASDAQ: BNAI
Aug 2023
Brand Engagement Network (BEN) (NASDAQ: BNAI) is a global leader providing secure and reliable conversational AI solutions for businesses and consumers. With offices in Jackson, Wyoming, and Seoul, South Korea, BEN offers a powerful and flexible platform that enhances customer experiences, boosts productivity, and delivers business value. At the heart of BEN’s offerings are AI-powered digital assistants and lifelike avatars, providing more personal and engaging experiences through browsers, mobile applications, and even life-size kiosks. These safe, intelligent, and inherently scalable AI solutions empower businesses to efficiently serve customers using validated data delivered through SaaS, Private Cloud, and On-Premises technology. BEN’s commitment to data sovereignty ensures that consumer and business data remain private, protected, and wholly owned by the respective parties. BEN’s mission is to make AI friendly and helpful for all, ensuring more people benefit from the AI-enhanced world.
Board Member
Apr 2022
The IAB Technology Laboratory (IAB Tech Lab) is a non-profit research and development consortium that produces and provides standards, software, tools, and services to drive growth and efficiency in the global digital media ecosystem.
Board Member
Jan 2015
CPXi Asia is a digital media solutions company leading the tech enabled marketing space with over 17 years of innovation, creation, and cultivation of exceptional business. Through our strategic solution sets, we empower publishers, advertisers, marketers, and key influencers to access the full potential of their digital assets. We are headquartered in New York City, with global offices in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore as the regional headquarters for the Asian market.
Experience · 7 entries
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Investments (4)
Founder (1)
Board (3)
2025
Investor & Co-Founder
May 2025
2024
Director & Senior Consultant
Nov 2024
Evora provides independent financial advice to investors, management teams, and boards of directors with a focus on M&A, distressed and special situations debt, and capital structure alternatives. We also serve as interim management roles and on Board of Directors.
Advisor, Investor and Executive Consultant
Oct 2024
MadConnect is the Intelligent Connectivity Layer (ICL) powering the new era of modern marketing and advertising. Purpose-built to unify fragmented tech stacks, it enables platform-platform connectivity across the MarTech ecosystem within hours - without rebuilding or engineering lift. With native support for Model-Context Protocol (MCP), MadConnect AI-enables existing marketing stacks to immediately deliver agentic automation and intelligent workflows across businesses - securely and at scale. MadConnect Professional Services helps organizations accelerate implementation, refine data strategy, and unlock the full value of their existing marketing and advertising infrastructure. Founded in 2021, MadConnect is a trusted partner to leading agencies, brands, data providers, and platforms. To learn more, visit madconnect.ai.
2023
Chief Executive Officer & Board Member - NASDAQ: BNAI
Aug 2023
Brand Engagement Network (BEN) (NASDAQ: BNAI) is a global leader providing secure and reliable conversational AI solutions for businesses and consumers. With offices in Jackson, Wyoming, and Seoul, South Korea, BEN offers a powerful and flexible platform that enhances customer experiences, boosts productivity, and delivers business value. At the heart of BEN’s offerings are AI-powered digital assistants and lifelike avatars, providing more personal and engaging experiences through browsers, mobile applications, and even life-size kiosks. These safe, intelligent, and inherently scalable AI solutions empower businesses to efficiently serve customers using validated data delivered through SaaS, Private Cloud, and On-Premises technology. BEN’s commitment to data sovereignty ensures that consumer and business data remain private, protected, and wholly owned by the respective parties. BEN’s mission is to make AI friendly and helpful for all, ensuring more people benefit from the AI-enhanced world.
2022
Board Member
Apr 2022
The IAB Technology Laboratory (IAB Tech Lab) is a non-profit research and development consortium that produces and provides standards, software, tools, and services to drive growth and efficiency in the global digital media ecosystem.
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