Full Name
Brian Sadek
Job Title
North American Sr. Counsel
Company
ZF Group
Speaker Bio
Brian is a transactional attorney with nearly two decades of comprehensive in-house experience and a private sector background practicing commercial contracts and finance at large law firms.
He began his legal career at a large law firm in Chicago, focusing on public law and finance before being hired by one of the firm’s clients, the Regional Transportation Authority, where he was its Deputy General Counsel. He then moved to the Wayne County Airport Authority, a two-airport system (DTW/YIP) with approximately 19,000 badged employees and $350 million annual budget, where he served as Vice President of Legal and Authority Affairs, in which role he acted as WCAA’s General Counsel. He left practice in 2020 to care for his two young children amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and, after a year and a half away, returned to work for a large law firm. In 2024, he went back in-house with ZF Group as Senior Legal Counsel, where he has served as de facto North American General Counsel for a division of the business with billions of dollars of annual revenue.
He earned his BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan, a JD from Northwestern University School of Law, and an MLA in Management from Harvard University, where he earned Certificates in both Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
He began his legal career at a large law firm in Chicago, focusing on public law and finance before being hired by one of the firm’s clients, the Regional Transportation Authority, where he was its Deputy General Counsel. He then moved to the Wayne County Airport Authority, a two-airport system (DTW/YIP) with approximately 19,000 badged employees and $350 million annual budget, where he served as Vice President of Legal and Authority Affairs, in which role he acted as WCAA’s General Counsel. He left practice in 2020 to care for his two young children amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and, after a year and a half away, returned to work for a large law firm. In 2024, he went back in-house with ZF Group as Senior Legal Counsel, where he has served as de facto North American General Counsel for a division of the business with billions of dollars of annual revenue.
He earned his BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan, a JD from Northwestern University School of Law, and an MLA in Management from Harvard University, where he earned Certificates in both Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
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