Zach is a Principal and Chief Operating Officer with K&C responsible for day-to-day operations, business development and company strategic growth. His expertise stems from composite materials for structural retrofit and blast mitigation. Over the past fifteen years Zach has researched, developed and designed composite materials to retrofit structures for seismic excitation and potential blast loads and impacts. He is a licensed professional engineer and holds two patents related to blast and protective design. Zach’s capabilities include blast mitigation, structural and seismic retrofit, progressive collapse analysis and the design and use of advanced composites including fiber reinforced polymers, polyureas and advanced concretes.