Lars Windhorst, an entrepreneur since the age of 15, is now the Chief Executive Officer of Sapinda Deutschland Gmbh. He co-founded Sapinda, an investment group, back in 2004. By working with Rob Herson, a businessman from South Africa, they signed investment deals worth more than 2 billion Euros in a five year period. Thanks to the financial genius of Lars Windhorst, the group profited with excellent rates of return, procuring investments in the range of one billion Euros. Sapinda suffered heavy losses when the financial crisis of 2008 hit, but the company was able to restructure later that year. After the shareholders declared insolvency, the restructured company jumped back into business in 2009. A subsidiary of Sapinda Holding B.V., Sapinda Deutschland GmbH is an international investment and holding company that specializes in public equity, private equity, and debt. Business Connections: Lars Windhorst has been well-connected in business since he traveled with Ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl as a young man. Along with state visits to world leaders, he was also invited to take part in the Global Leader for Tomorrow event at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Early Business Dealings: Lars Windhorst co-founded his first company, Windhorst Electronics, in 1993. His business grew quickly and soon expanded into the realms of industry, resl estate, finanace and tading. With operations in Europe and Asia, he was regarded as the youngest entrepreneur to reach such phenomenal success. The business plummeted as a result of shifting investments into the wildly popular Internet scene. When that scene crashed in 2001, Lars Windhorst was forced to call it quits and declare his company bankrupt. Lars Windhorst continues to thrive; even after suffering severe injuries when he was a passenger in an airplane that crashed in Kazakhstan. One of the pilots of that aircraft lost his life, but Lars Windhorst escaped with face and chest burns.