Zach Buckner is an engineer and entrepreneur in Charlottesville VA, with an array of interests in freight, operations research, machine learning, text analytics, simulation, optimization, and computer architecture.  Zach is the Founder and CEO of Retail Relay, the Vice President of Technology for Elder Research, Inc., and the inventor of a next-generation industrial sensor line at Visi-Trak Sensors, LLC.

Zach has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, and is named as an inventor on an array of pending and awarded US and international patents, including two that are currently being licensed through the University of Virginia's Patent Foundation.  In addition, he has won research and design awards from the University of Virginia and the University of California at Berkeley, with one of his designs being named one of the '40 Best Products of 2000' by Control Engineering Magazine.