Karlis Krastins

Kārlis Krastiņš is Managing Partner and the Chairman of the Executive Board of Prudentia. Mr. Kārlis Krastiņš joined Prudentia in 2002. Prior to joining the company, he was the President of Commercial Bank "Baltikums". Earlier, he was the CEO of "Saules Investments" - a member company of the "Eesti Uhispank Group", as well he was the Head of Capital Markets in "Saules Bank". Additionally, Kārlis sat in the Supervisory Board of the "Riga Stock Exchange" from 1997 to 2002.

Kārlis Krastiņš is responsible for day-to-day Prudentia management, workflow organization and represents Prudentia in private or public affairs.

Kārlis Krastiņš originated and was the lead manager of the major transactions in the Baltic M&A market, including advising German client "Contaq Consulting" in the purchase of 100% share capital of cable TV & internet provider "IZZI", the private placement of "ELKO GRUPA" - the leading IT wholesale in CEE region and the deal management services to the largest Baltic dairy "Rokiškio Sūris" in the sale of it's minority stake of "Panevežio Pienas". Mr. Kārlis Krastiņš has been engaged many times in advisory services to Latvian government including consulting on Latvian banking sector restructuring issues and consulting government on its majority shareholding position in the leading CEE airline AS "Air Baltic Corporation". Furthermore he has led and completed sucessful investor attraction process for the largest Latvian milk processing company JSC "Rīgas piena kombināts" and has consulted purchaser in acquisition of JSC "Valmieras piens" - a leading dairy company in Latvia.