When organizations work better, they can serve better.

Sayed's commitment to helping others began early, through teaching and community service, and has shaped every step of his career since: nonprofit leadership, public service and international development.

For almost a decade, he has worked with nonprofits in the United States and internationally, as a country director, as a trustee, and as a chief information officer and data scientist. Those roles gave him two perspectives that rarely sit together: technology and data expertise, and a leader's understanding of how nonprofits really work, where they struggle and what it takes to serve people well.

Systems he has helped build have doubled the number of donors, cut the time to give from two minutes to about 12 seconds, and automated thousands of transactions that staff once handled by hand.

Sayed is a Fulbright Scholar, holds a master's in Information Systems from Stevens Institute of Technology, and is a Salesforce consultant with multiple Salesforce certifications.

Again and again, he saw dedicated teams held back not by a lack of commitment, but by systems that didn't work together and expertise they couldn't easily reach. He founded Maxiva to fill that gap: to help nonprofits maximize the value of every resource they have, and multiply the impact of their work for the people they serve.