Zac Bookman

Co-Founder & CEO
OpenGov

Zachary Bookman is the Co-founder and CEO of OpenGov, the GovTech cloud software leader. With a mission to power more effective and accountable government, OpenGov serves more than 1900 cities, counties, state agencies, school districts, and special districts across the United States.

Before co-founding OpenGov, Zac served as Advisor to U.S. Army General H.R. McMaster on the Anti‑Corruption Task Force at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. He previously practiced trial litigation at Keker, Van Nest & Peters in San Francisco, and served as law clerk to the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Zac studied transparency and corruption in Mexico as a Fulbright Fellow. He holds a JD from Yale Law School, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, and graduated valedictorian from the University of Maryland. Zac serves on the board of Mt. Tamalpais College and the Board of Overseers at the Hoover Institution, and he is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and the Council on Foreign Relations.