About us
This is where aspiration meets innovation, candor fuels collaboration and impossible surrenders to teamwork. We champion the bold to achieve the extraordinary.
ARKA is a consulting firm that helps most ambitious change makers define the future. In Kosovo and across Europe, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries.
We support the development of turnkey business in the fields of commercial and corporate law, business consulting, recruitment, fintech solutions and software development.
ARKA Consulting – provides full legal support at all stages of doing business, from setting up a company, open a bank account to obtaining the necessary activity licenses, recruiting and expand your business further in Kosovo.
In addition, ARKA Consulting has developed a strong network of professional and reliable partners both locally and abroad, including financial advisors, international law firms and financial institutions, thus enabling ARKA to act as one-stop firm and provide adequate and exhaustive advise to its clients across Europe.
What we believe
We believe that bold steps define the future. That the ambition to lead requires the courage to adapt. And that doing the right thing is rarely easy, but always worth it.
We seek out people and clients who challenge themselves to be exceptional—and champion that spirit in others. We’re guided by success, our unwavering commitment to always do the right thing by our clients, people and communities.
Our mission
Our mission is to help our clients create such high levels of value that together we set new standards of excellence in our respective industries.
We opened our doors on the principle that clients should get results—not just reports—from their consultants. We broke the rules by developing customized strategies that helped clients beat their competition. We continue to work with ambitious clients who want to define the future, not hide from it. We have various “tied economics” arrangements with our clients, allowing us to better align our financial incentives with client outcomes.
Our people are passionate about delivering tangible results for clients, and these arrangements make our commitments more than a promise. We succeed only when our clients do.
Kastriot Jahaj
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Kastriot Jahaj is an entrepreneur, strategic communication leader, political advisor, legal and diplomatic expert, with over 20 years of experience across media, governance, international development, public affairs, and business consulting.
As the Founder and Managing Director of Arka Consulting LLC, Kastriot empowers international investors and startups to establish remote operations in Kosovo and the Western Balkans. Under his leadership, Arka has become a one-stop firm—offering legal, accounting, tax, recruitment, and IT outsourcing services—and has facilitated the establishment of dozens of international companies and cross-border expansions.
Simultaneously, he co-founded and leads Nomad Consulting, where he oversees large-scale public information projects. He specializes in strategic communications, disinformation counteraction, and multimedia behavior-change campaigns for clients like the European Union, OSCE, USAID, UN, Helwetass Swiss Cooperation and many more.
Earlier, Kastriot served as Political Communication Advisor to the Prime Minister of Kosovo, where he led national COVID‑19 awareness strategies, economic recovery messaging, and crisis communications in partnership with health authorities. He also directed environmental and climate action campaigns and fostered multi-stakeholder dialogues spanning civil society, the private sector, and institutional actors.
With a foundation in journalism—including work at major Kosovar outlets and three investigative reporting awards—Kastriot brings an ethical, evidence-based perspective to public discourse. He is a frequent political commentator on national television, recognized for incisive analysis and advocacy for transparency, democratic governance, and accountability.
Kastriot combines expertise in public relations, strategic communication, digital media, and technology to design and deliver high-impact campaigns that elevate institutional visibility, drive engagement, and build credibility at both national and international levels.