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About Me

Lars Windhorst is an international financial entrepreneur dealing with investments. He is the current Chief Executive Officer of Sapinda Deutschland GmbH, which is the subsidiary in Germany of Sapinda Holding B.V. He has been working in international finance since he was a teenager and knows the market well. He has been through bankruptcy induced by the burst of the Internet bubble in 2001, company restructuring caused by the global financial recession of 2008, and a fiery plane crash, which left him severely burned.

New Beginnings

In 2000, Lars Windhorst was aiming to see his holding company, Windhorst AG, listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The stock market was booming at the time, and the company invested heavily into the New Economy, which was mainly the Internet sector. Little did anyone suspect that in 2001 the hi-tech industry and stock market would come crashing down, leaving Windhorst AG with heavy financial difficulties.

Lars Windorst bounded back into business and co-founded Sapinda, an investment group. With investment transactions reaching more than 2 billion Euros in a period of five years, the company was doing well.

Global Recession

In 2008 a global financial recession rocked the world sending the stock market down once again. This time, it took a matter of months for Sapinda to undergo a restructuring phase, managed by the shareholders. In March of 2009 the company was back in business with Lars Windhorst taking charge of Sapinda Deutschland GmbH and the business activities attributed to one sector of the group.

Early Years

Lars Windhorst made himself well known in Germany as a teenage entrepreneur. He was only 16 years old when he had the idea to assemble computer components in his family home in Rahden, Germany. He succeeded where others have failed in buying his supplies in Asia, making the computers in Germany, and realizing large profits by selling locally.