Virala Oy Ab
Patrick Castren is a finance professional with extensive experience in investment management and advisory roles. Currently serving as Chief Investment Officer at Virala Oy Ab since April 2024, Patrick has held various positions at Virala, including Managing Director at Nidoco AB and Investment Manager at Virala. Prior experience includes a Senior Analyst position at EY, where responsibilities involved financial due diligence and client communication, as well as roles at PwC as a Treasury Associate and Audit Trainee. Earlier career highlights include assistant positions at OP-Pohjola Group. Patrick holds a Master of Science in Finance from Hanken School of Economics and has also studied at Universidad Pontificia Comillas.
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Virala Oy Ab
Virala Group is a traditional family-owned industrial company founded in 1977, in Finland. Virala Oy Ab is the parent company of Virala Group, and it has operating subsidiaries in Finland, Sweden and the USA. Independent subsidiary Nidoco AB operates in Sweden. For more than 20 years, Virala Group has built a decentralized, family-owned industrial group focused on strategic ownership that will endure, grow and develop from one generation to the next. Virala Group's strategy is to produce long-term value creation for its ownerships in good co-operation with other owners. Virala has accumulated extensive experience of owning both listed and unlisted companies as well as special expertise in developing such companies through its active ownership strategy. Key examples of companies owned and developed by Virala Group together with other principal owners include Fiskars Corporation, YIT Corporation, Ahlstrom-Munksjö Oyj and Oral Hammaslääkärit Plc. Additionally, Virala has long experience, both directly as well as indirectly through its subsidiaries, from participating in the planning and execution of several high-profile corporate transactions. Virala Group’s holdings also include private equity funds, in which the Group acts as an active owner with significant shareholdings.