Haworth College of Business Emerging Leader Alumni Award

Paulina Costa Zyskowski, B.B.A.’11
Sales Director, Americas, Kalsec Inc.

Paulina Costa Zyskowski has spent the majority of her career at Kalsec, joining the company in 2011 and growing into a senior account manager position prior to being named sales director. She has been able to compound her passion for executing on consultative selling solutions to the food and consumer package goods industry through her coaching and development abilities. It was an organic path for Costa Zyskowski, who leads cross-functional teams across the globe in implementing natural product solutions for processed food and beverages. 

Prior to Kalsec, she worked in sales at Thomson Reuters as an intern, where she was nominated for Crain’s Magazine Intern of the Year. She studied sales and business marketing and Spanish at Western Michigan University and holds an MBA from DePaul University. During her time at WMU she was an active board member of the Sales and Business Marketing Association.

She currently serves as a board member and diversity, equity and inclusion committee member for the Chicago chapter of Women in Flavor and Fragrance Commerce, Inc., an organization founded for the empowerment of women in the flavor and fragrance industry. She was a previous honoree on The 30 for the Haworth College of Business in 2020.