Ryan Zahrai

CEO

Sydney, NSW, Australia18 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Transformed SME law firm operations with AI.
  • Achieved 20% MRR growth in 3 months.
  • Scaled legal functions across multiple markets.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Legal Tech expert with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions for law firms.

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Skills

Core Skills

Legal StrategyBusiness DevelopmentBusiness StrategyConsultingManagementProject ManagementLitigationSales

Other Skills

Legal AIOperational leverageClient servicesAdvisoryDealmakingDebt structuringCommercial lawAI integrationClient experienceRevenue generationGrowth opportunitiesPartnership developmentTrade reportsCommerceDevelopment

About

I'm the CEO of Parachute, the legal AI operating system to provide operational leverage for lean law firms. We help lean and SME law firms increase margin by internal efficiency gains, and generate recurring revenue by extending Parachute to their clients. It's what helped Zed Law, the law firm I founded, reach 20% of its revenue as MRR within 3 months of deployment, and double margins of our lawyers within the same time period. We want to transform how SME law firms operate, and we're building the platform to help them do that. See what we're about at www.goparachute.ai

Experience

18 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
5 mos
Current Experience

Parachute

CEO

Dec 2025Present · 5 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • Building with an A team to deliver industry transforming AI tailored for SME law firms in a way no other platform currently is, and enabling firms to deliver even better services to their clients.
Legal AIOperational leverageClient servicesLegal StrategyBusiness Development

Ventr group

Founder

Jun 2025Feb 2026 · 8 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Hybrid

  • Small execution fitout blending advisory and dealmaking under one banner. We arrange debt, structure deals, launch into new markets, and back founders to scale.
AdvisoryDealmakingDebt structuringBusiness StrategyConsulting

Eucalyptus

2 roles

Head of Legal (Group)

Apr 2022Mar 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hybrid

  • Following Euc's expansion into the UK, landed UK legal capability. Acted as Head of Legal for the wider Euc group.
Legal capabilityMarket entryLegal StrategyManagement

Head Of Legal

Sep 2021Apr 2022 · 7 mos · Hybrid

  • First Head of Legal of AUs largest B2C telehealth platform, enabling the future of digital and empowering personalised health care. Scaled the legal function to 8 across 4 markets. Oversaw legal streams into UK, Germany and Japan market entry. Ran asset acquisition of Jenny Craig. Introduced automation in contract generation for some 3000+ contracts p/a. Oversaw capital raising of over $100m in venture capital in Series C and C1 rounds.
Legal function scalingContract automationLegal StrategyProject Management

Zed law™

Founder

Jul 2021Jan 2026 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Hybrid

  • Built a commercial-corporate law firm with a mission to challenge the way clients experience working with lawyers. We're full-stack AI with human expertise so you're getting deliverables faster, with the level of commerciality you'd expect from a business owner seldom found among lawyers.
  • If you've worked with lawyers before, you'll love working with Zed. We want to be compared. We admit we're not perfect. No law firm is. But I challenge you to try Zed. You probably won't go back.
Commercial lawAI integrationClient experienceLegal StrategyBusiness Development

The world bank

Consultant

Jun 2020Aug 2025 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • Supporting the World Bank trade, development and economics teams in DC, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia and Samoa with commerce and trade reports, presentations and publications.
Trade reportsCommerceDevelopmentLegal StrategyConsulting

Coffee.xyz

Advisor

Jun 2019Oct 2025 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • Working with founders on growth and partnership opportunities for a one-app-does-all startup.
Growth opportunitiesPartnership developmentBusiness DevelopmentConsulting

Genesiscare

Lead Commercial Counsel

Sep 2018Sep 2021 · 3 yrs · Sydney, Australia

  • Senior commercial legal counsel advising on complex commercial, health and regulatory matters including across privacy, M&A, data-innovation streams across the AU network, through KKRs return in 2018, UK consolidation, pre-COVID PRC market entry (and subsequent withdrawal), and beginnings of its US M&A activity.
Commercial legal counselAdvising on regulatory mattersLegal StrategyManagement

Baha'i world centre

Senior Legal Counsel

Mar 2016May 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Israel

  • Managed team of AU/CA/NZ lawyers in an organisation of 700+ in funds regulatory, conflict of laws matters, property/ construction, administrative law, IT and IP, SaaS, supporting adjacent teams in worldwide diplomatic and Israeli government relations.
Regulatory mattersConflict of lawsLegal StrategyManagement

Ashurst

Lawyer

Jan 2011Feb 2016 · 5 yrs 1 mo · Sydney, Australia

  • Restructuring and insolvency associate acting for insolvency practitioners and financiers in some of Australia's largest corporate insolvencies including the administration-turned-liquidation of BBY Ltd, acting for KPMG, and other blue-chip clients.
InsolvencyCorporate restructuringLegal StrategyLitigation

Mitry lawyers

Litigation Paralegal

Jan 2009Dec 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos · Sydney, Australia

  • Litigation and dispute resolution, business development in one of Sydney's most successful boutique class-action law practices.
LitigationDispute resolutionLegal Strategy

Self employed

Business Development Consultant

Jan 2008Apr 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos · Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane

  • Outbound cold calling, outreach sales and BD consultant (freelance) contracted to agencies to build brand, awareness and sales agent clients Was relied on to smash outreach records and conversion rates for client buy decisions.
Outbound salesBusiness developmentBusiness DevelopmentSales

Westpac

Business Development Associate

May 2007Apr 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Sydney Area

  • Corporate client management, led financial product sales and business development.
Client managementFinancial product salesBusiness DevelopmentSales

Education

University of Warwick - Warwick Business School

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Business Administration and Management

Jan 2017Jan 2020

Macquarie University

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) — Law (Hons 1)

Jan 2009Jan 2012

Macquarie University

Bachelor of Health — Health Policy

Jan 2007Jan 2009

Macquarie University

Bachelor of Science-Psychology — Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Jan 2004Jan 2007

Macquarie University

Bachelor of Laws - LLB

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