Boudewijn Poelmann (born 3 February 1949,

Bussum Bussum () is a commuter town and former municipality in the Gooi region in the south east of the province of North Holland in the Netherlands near Hilversum. Since 2016, Bussum has been part of the new municipality of Gooise Meren. Bussum had a ...

) is a Dutch entrepreneur and co-founder of the

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's Nationale Postcode Lottery. In 1983, he helped to start the media company,

Novamedia The Postcode Lottery Group is a Dutch international social enterprise, 100% owned by a non-profit foundation. The group establishes and manages charitable Lottery, lotteries worldwide to raise funds for social organisations working in areas suc ...

. Before establishing Novamedia in 1983, he worked with

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and Oxfam Novib (Dutch organization for international development aid). At Oxfam Novib he was responsible for fundraising and oversaw its publishing house. In addition, he acquired experience in European TV, telephone and printed media businesses. Until September 1992 he was also the director of

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, Europe. Poelmann is one of the founders/owners of ''Independent Media'', which became the second largest publishing house in the

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. He was the chairman of the board of directors until 2004 when Independent Media was sold to Sanoma Publishing. In 2004, he co-founded

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, a daily financial newspaper in

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. One year later he co-founded the new Dutch publishing hous
Nieuw Amsterdam
He was a member of the board of

Feyenoord Rotterdam Feyenoord Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club based in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football. Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the club changed to various names before settling on being called ...

. Beginning of 2020 Sigrid van Aken took over his role as CEO of Novamedia.

References

External links

Profile at Novamedia

Publication

* Ineke Holtwijk: ''De mannen van de droomfabriek. Het verhaal achter het succes van de Postcode Loterij''. Amsterdam, Balans, 2015, 1949 births Living people People from Bussum Dutch businesspeople Dutch philanthropists Feyenoord non-playing staff {{Netherlands-business-bio-stub