EPISODE · Jun 17, 2026 · 1H 2M
Zach Knight & Emmie Nostitz - Co-Founders - Tivity
from The Ad Podcast · host Dylan Conroy
Zach Knight and Emmie Nostitz are the Co-Founders of Tivity, a hyper-growth marketplace and digital platform that represents the largest network of top-tier private chefs in the United States. The company’s origin story reads like modern startup lore: in early 2021, while riding a ski gondola between runs in Aspen, Zach (a 12-year hospitality and fine dining veteran based in Austin, Texas) took a call from a client looking to source a high-end private chef. Seeing an immediate, unaddressed gap in the market, he teamed up with his longtime friend Emmie—an award-winning heavy hitter in the advertising world.Emmie brought a flawless creative pedigree to the partnership, having won the first-ever Mobile Grand Prix at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for Google’s Project Re:Brief and spent years building iconic campaigns at elite agencies like Droga5 and Johannes Leonardo for brands like The New York Times and Chase.
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Zach Knight and Emmie Nostitz are the Co-Founders of Tivity, a hyper-growth marketplace and digital platform that represents the largest network of top-tier private chefs in the United States. The company’s origin story reads like modern startup lore: in early 2021, while riding a ski gondola between runs in Aspen, Zach (a 12-year hospitality and fine dining veteran based in Austin, Texas) took a call from a client looking to source a high-end private chef. Seeing an immediate, unaddressed gap in the market, he teamed up with his longtime friend Emmie—an award-winning heavy hitter in the advertising world.Emmie brought a flawless creative pedigree to the partnership, having won the first-ever Mobile Grand Prix at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for Google’s Project Re:Brief and spent years building iconic campaigns at elite agencies like Droga5 and Johannes Leonardo for brands like The New York Times and Chase.
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