Team
Lauri Pietarinen
Lauri has over 20 years of experience from diverse areas ranging from investment banking and corporate finance to asset management, real estate, private equity and various family office issues.
Prior to joining Ajanta as a CEO, Lauri co-founded and worked at Prudentus Capital, high-quality advisory and capital arrangement specialist company. Before that, Lauri worked as Hartwall Capital’s Investment Director and oversaw an investment portfolio of ca. €800m, executed strategic transactions of various size with aggregate value in excess of €400m. Lauri has been a Partner and Analyst at E. Öhman J:or Securities Finland Ltd. Lauri has previously also worked as Quantitative Developer for Italian Monte Paschi Asset Management SGR.
Raif Nisametdin
Raif has broad experience in scaling up green economy companies from the start-up phase to the public listing phase.
Raif is an experienced investor and has a long working history dealing with international trade and finance.
Raif is a board member in Black Donuts, Dolea, Filtrabit and Resand.
Janne Rauramo
Janne is in charge of various Ajanta investments including Betolar Green Building Technologies Oy, Evata Partners Oy as well as Real Estate development of Finia Yapi Emlak Gelistirme ve Ticarert AS and Mizzi Kösku Turizm Isletmeleri AS in Istanbul, Turkey.
Janne has wide experience in entrepreneurship and consulting. Janne has previously been the General Manager for Torpan Pojat basketball club and worked as a consultant through his own company. During his studies in University of Helsinki he also worked as a trainee at Castrén & Snellman Attorneys.
Ari Salmivuori
Ari is an entrepreneur, founder, and the chairman of Ajanta and Ajanta Innovations, which currently invest in cleantech companies. Ajanta was established in 1989 and has a history of highly successful investments in private growth companies with a proven technological edge to disrupt a large market, as well as public companies in need of active ownership. In the late '90s, Ajanta invested very successfully in various internet-driven companies, including Saunalahti/Elisa. Other notable investments include the sporting goods company Amer Sports, the heavy vehicle aftermarket business Relais, Scandinavian Biogas, and the green cement provider Betolar. Ari lives in London and has an extensive European network of senior professionals who share his passion for market-changing clean technologies, want to co-invest, and have the proven ability and time to support entrepreneurs and management teams to accelerate value growth.
Mikko Salmivuori
Mikko has over 20 years of experience in investment banking, real estate investments and various business development projects.
As a board member of Ajanta and other companies, Mikko has been involved in several large investment projects in Finland and internationally. Before Ajanta, Mikko worked at E. Öhman J:or Securities Finland Ltd as a trader.
Janne Tallgren
Janne has over 35 years of experience in development, coordination and supervision of demanding real estate projects.
Currently, in addition to supervising the development of several real estate projects in Finland and abroad.
Alexandra Zavadskaya
Alexandra has deep knowledge of financial administration, planning and management of companies. Her expertise includes financial analysis and valuations, preparations of annual financial statements, investor communications, assisting in capital funding, reporting, shareholders and Board of Directors meetings, HR management, business and strategic guidance.
Prior to joining Ajanta Oy, Alexandra gained experience during her work at Prudentus Capital Oy – a corporate financial advisory and consulting firm, where she performed market and industry analysis, competition- , strategy- and financial analysis.
Alexandra holds a Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration), Finance and Accounting degree from Hanken School of Economics.