“I am honored to become a part of the leading Baltic tour operator. I appreciate the trust and confidence of the Novaturas Board,” Kaikaris is cited as saying in the company’s press release.

For the past three years, Kaikaris has been the CEO of CityBee, a car-sharing company. Before that, he was CEO of charter airline Small Planet Airlines for nearly three years.

Kaikaris has worked in the IT sector for a large part of his career, having spent four years in charge of the Lithuanian offices of international technology companies Microsoft and Oracle, as well as President and Member of the Board of the association Infobalt, and worked in the sales department of IBM.