Arnold Thorstad

Arnold Thorstad has spent his career founding and running companies that move real goods across real borders — food ingredients at Invico, medical supplies at Medivico, beverages at Zuma — with operations spanning the United States, Asia, Brazil, and Europe.

The pattern across his ventures is consistent: essential industries, international complexity, and operations built to last. When his mother's hospital could not find protective equipment at the start of the pandemic, he co-founded Medivico to supply it — a story Forbes told in 2021, recognizing the agile, mission-driven execution that runs through all of his companies.

A holding company measures itself in decades, and Arnold has built companies that way from the start. At Byzantine Solidus he brings the cross-border operating experience — and the network that comes with it — that durable businesses are made of.