Arnold Thorstad
Serial founder across food ingredients, medical supply, and beverages, with operating companies on four continents.
- Founder · Invico — food ingredients
- Co-founder & President · Medivico — medical supplies
- Founder · Zuma — beverages
- Operations across the U.S., Asia, Brazil, and Europe
- Featured in Forbes for mission-driven execution in high-impact markets
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.