BFFI Board members
Jānis Bērziņš
Valdonė Darškuvienė
Valdonė Darškuvienė
Jānis is a financial economist at Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. Dr. Bērziņš’ research interests are in the area of family firm business. His work examines interaction between owner household financial and owned firm financial issues, issues of succession, inheritance, and agency conflict including agency conflict among family members.
Valdonė Darškuvienė
Valdonė Darškuvienė
Valdonė Darškuvienė
Valdonė is a professor and researcher at ISM University of Management and Economics, Vilnius, Lithuania. Her research is within the domain of corporate finance, ownership, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility. She teaches extensively in executive education and MSc programs, is a leader and expert of a number of international research and academic projects.
Krista Jaakson
Valdonė Darškuvienė
Krista Jaakson
Krista obtained her PhD degree in 2009 in University of Tartu and is currently an Associate Professor of Management and Executive MBA program lead in the School of Economics and Business Administration of University of Tartu. Krista teaches business strategies at a graduate level and management at a post-graduate level. Her research interests are management, organizational culture, and values.
Valerija Kozlova
Valerija Kozlova
Valerija Kozlova
Valerija is the Dean of the Transport and Management Faculty at TSI She obtained her masters degree in 1999 in Riga Technical University and is currently a PhD student of Joint doctoral program "Business Management" at RISEBA University of Applied Sciences and BA School of Business and Finance. Her research interests are entrepreneurship and management, with a focus on Family Businesses.
Kārlis Krastiņš
Valerija Kozlova
Valerija Kozlova
Kārlis is Managing Partner and the Chairman of the Management Board of Prudentia - the Leading Corporate Finance Company in the Baltic States for 23 years. He has engaged in advisory services to leading Latvian and Baltic companies many times. Most of Prudentia clients are family owned companies. Succession planning, capital attraction,
Kārlis is Managing Partner and the Chairman of the Management Board of Prudentia - the Leading Corporate Finance Company in the Baltic States for 23 years. He has engaged in advisory services to leading Latvian and Baltic companies many times. Most of Prudentia clients are family owned companies. Succession planning, capital attraction, acquisitions and sale to investors are the most popular issues to be solved by Kārlis.
Anete Marhele
Valerija Kozlova
Anete Marhele
Anete is Head of Tax at attorneys at law office Eversheds Sutherland Bitāns with more than 10 years experience in the legal and tax field. Anete specializes mainly in the field of tax law and provides tax advice on Latvian and international taxation to clients in various industries.
Rūdis Mālmeisters
Rūdis Mālmeisters
Rūdis Mālmeisters
Rūdis has obtained a bachelor's degree in law, and currently is actively working in his family's company SIA Māris&Co, which mainly deals with catering, but they also have their own pastry shop and several grocery stores, as well as a building materials store. He is a second-generation family firm representative and brings to the board h
Rūdis has obtained a bachelor's degree in law, and currently is actively working in his family's company SIA Māris&Co, which mainly deals with catering, but they also have their own pastry shop and several grocery stores, as well as a building materials store. He is a second-generation family firm representative and brings to the board his entrepreneurial spirit and ambition to represent other second-generation representatives of the BFFI network.
Anete Pajuste
Rūdis Mālmeisters
Rūdis Mālmeisters
Anete is a Professor of Finance at Stockholm School of Economics (Riga) and a Visiting Professor at Boston University Questrom School of Business. She has been a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Program on Corporate Governance of Harvard Law School. She is also a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Anete
Anete is a Professor of Finance at Stockholm School of Economics (Riga) and a Visiting Professor at Boston University Questrom School of Business. She has been a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Program on Corporate Governance of Harvard Law School. She is also a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Anete holds a PhD in Finance from the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden).
Dmitrijs Pavlovs
Rūdis Mālmeisters
Dmitrijs Pavlovs
Dmitrijs has over 13 years of experience in banking and corporate finance, as well as more than 2 years of experience in IT project development. Dmitrijs serves as BFFI's chief financial officer helping the organization to define, implement and monitor operational objectives and the budget.