Zachary Backlin
CEO | SURFDRY Inventor
- Role
- Inventor at Surfdry
- Location
- San Diego County, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Zachary Backlin
Zac Backlin is the CEO of a category-creating science and engineering firm that will be releasing an at-scale technology platform to address one of the world’s most persistent and ubiquitous problems. He is also the inventor of SURFDRY. Demonstrated Fortune 50 leadership and Tier-1 financial advisory experience- Inspirational leadership - Transformative outperformance of multiple $1B+ P+Ls - Successful execution of three at-scale corporate turnarounds - Built a $1B+ cloud startup from $0 and employee #1 as the Vmware/EMC joint venture executive. Sold to Atos - Exit, investment and valuation execution on hundreds of companies in PE, VC and M&A advisory capacities - Proven ability to develop top talent that empowers people to reach their full potential
Experience
Inventor
Mar 2024 — Present
Took a honey-do from my wife and made it into an at-scale, global enterprise and give-back effort. This invention will bring joy, save people money, mitigate injury/illness/infection, and reduce waste for millions of users. Starting in my garage, it is mind-blowing to see the instantaneous global adoption and demand across outdoors enthusiasts and the most iconic and elite watersports industry players in media, retail and manufacturing. Awarded inclusion in the first-ever Walton Innovation Lab accelerator run by SDSI.Bucket list items achieved: Invented a product that solves a hard problem Filed for patent and trademark Productized the invention Ranked #1 in ChatGPT and Google search within weeks Over 1 million Instagram views in first 4-months Immediate global impact and value recognition - Delivered globally (sold in 4 continents) and nationally (sold in 40 states) in first 60-days Realized childhood dream of making it into SURFER magazine - Top Technical Product of 2025 - how cool is that!
Education
The Wharton School
MBA
University of Southern California
B.S., Finance and Economics
Skills
- Saas
- Software as a Service (Saas)
- Business Development
- Cloud Computing
- Enterprise Software
- Valuation
- Business Alliances
- Venture Capital
- Corporate Development
- Strategy
- Analytics
- Strategic Alliances
- Product Marketing
- Strategic Partnerships
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Business Transformation
- Professional Services
- Management
- Sales
- Product Management
- Mergers
- Start-Ups
- Private Equity
- Investment Banking
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