ZacTownsend.com

The website for Zachary Townsend.

I am interested in technology, statistics, civic innovation, finance and financial technology, cities, positive disruption, running, and books.

Work

I am currently building Meanwhile, a life insurer for the crypto economy.

I previously was a leader in the financial services practice of McKinsey & Company. I have past government experience as the inaugural Chief Data Officer of California and Senior Technology Policy Advisor to Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker.

I am a Y Combinator graduate, who built a banking API business called Standard Treasury and sold it to Silicon Valley Bank. I began my work experience as a civic sector consultant at Bennett Midland.

Podcasts, Video, Etc

Written Media

Writing

My writing has appeared in the Financial Times, Slate, the American Banker, San Francisco Chronicle, The Mercury News, San Francisco Examiner, TechCrunch, BankInnovation,Blockworks, and more: I occationally write on my blog: I have written for McKinsey & Company:

Contact

Take the first letter of my first name and prepend it to my last name. That's my gmail address.