Krsna Powell Sayari is a global development executive who leads business development strategy development and operations for organizations tackling some of the world’s most pressing challenges through technology, innovation, and cross-sector collaboration.

Krsna serves as director of business development at Pyxera Global, where she works across service areas and country offices to position the organization’s solutions as best in class for enabling an equitable circular economy and economic growth for developed and emerging markets and supporting multinationals with embedding job purposing into their core business.

Krsna brings over 12 years of experience in business development and go-to-market to Pyxera Global. Prior to Pyxera Global, Krsna served as director of business development at a social impact consultancy that builds partnerships with multinational corporations to harness the power of young people to drive positive social change and as a business development manager at a geospatial data and analytics startup that uses ML to produce hyperlocal population data for hard-to-reach places in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Throughout her career, Krsna has had the opportunity to collaborate with thought leaders and subject-matter experts from across the globe. From transportation engineers and urban planners to agriculture economists and conservation scientists. Finding opportunities to collaborate across geographies, cultures, and sectors is what she enjoys most about her work.

Krsna has received an executive certificate in sustainable business development and corporate social responsibility from Maastricht University School of Management, a master of public administration in urban policy from Suffolk University, and a bachelor in history with a focus in Latin American and Caribbean studies and western civilization from the University of Houston.