Zach Wheat

Director, Strategic Communications, Interactive Media Group

As director of Interactive Media, Zach Wheat leads a team of technical, creative and Web professionals who provide an array of online services for University engagement, development and volunteer initiatives.

Interactive Media provides U.Va. schools, departments and clubs with online tools that enable them to solicit gifts, communicate, network, market and engage their respective audiences more. Services include interactive Web sites, broadcast e-mail and online donation and registration forms.

Interactive Media also manages HoosOnline (www.hoosonline.virginia.edu), U.Va.’s online alumni directory that provides networking, employment and mentoring services, and HoosOnline Network, U.Va.’s alumni social and professional online network. (http://uva.affinitycircles.com).

Prior to joining U.Va. in 2005, Zach was president of Falls Publishing Company, a Charlottesville based firm that published the Virginia Economic Development Review.
Previously, he served as group publisher at a Maryland-based legal and business publisher, Pike & Fischer, Inc., a subsidiary of The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (BNA).