Summary
Zak Greant is a multi-disciplinary internet marketer and founder with over two decades of experience building marketing, open-source, and product strategies for startups and enterprise software firms. Based in Basel, he currently co-leads BigFilter as Co-Founder & CMO and advises Janea Systems while running a boutique agency, Marketing for Good, focused on startups, non-profits, and open source. His background spans hands-on technical evangelism, growth marketing, and product-led revenue forecasting—from relaunching corporate web presences and doubling inbound pipeline value to architecting software-driven marketing automation. A long-time open-source advocate and community builder, Zak has held strategic roles at MySQL, MariaDB Foundation, and Magnolia, and brings a pragmatic mix of technical literacy and governance experience to information-disorder challenges. Less obvious: he trained as a professional cook, a discipline that informs his process-oriented, iterative approach to team leadership and creative problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Cambridge Judge Business School
Professional Cooking, Professional Cooking at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
English, German