Nyenrode Business University

Restoration and transformation of the water tower of Raamsdonksveer, a national monument and well-known landmark in the province of North Brabant, into a hotel, restaurant and meeting location. A unique development, in the heart of one of the most attractive tourist areas in the Netherlands (a.o. The Biesbosch National Park, Theme Park Efteling) and directly at the Hooipolder junction (crossing A27 and A59). More info: www.veersetoren.nl.

Veerse Toren

Owner

Art and design lovers meet on Kunstveiling.nl, the largest online art auction in the Netherlands and Belgium. The company started in 2010, to make art and design auctions more accessible and transparent. Since then, a fast-growing community of over 150,000 buyers and sellers, professional collectors and traders has put its trust in Kunstveiling.nl. The company also provides full-service auctions for corporate and private collections. More than 500,000 works of art have already been auctioned through the platform. More info: www.kunstveiling.nl.

Kunstveiling.nl

Co-Owner

Business Art Service is market leader in B2B art rental in the Benelux. Building on a strong belief that art in the workplace inspires, motivates and strengthens corporate identities, the company has already served thousands of clients. The art collection consists of around 40,000 contemporary paintings, sculptures and photographic works, both by well-known and emerging artists. The company also serves the B2C market under the name Kunst.nl. Since 2016, the company is backed by Karmijn Kapitaal. More info: www.businessartservice.nl, www.kunst.nl and www.karmijnkapitaal.nl.

Business Art Service

Polak Investments bv

LiveWords is an Amsterdam-based software company devoted to getting the pain out of the traditional localization process for international brands and retailers. The LiveWords Cloud Translation Platform automates the translation workflow of web content, handling all logistics each time something is changed. This results in higher quality content, dramatically reduced time-to-market and heavy savings on translation costs. LiveWords integrates with leading e-commerce and content platforms, such as Demandware, EPiServer, Hippo, Hybris, inRiver PIM, Sitecore and StiboSystems. In July 2016, LiveWords was  acquired by Airplane Holding / Concorde Group, the leading translation and interpreting agency in the Netherlands, backed by Bencis Capital Partners. More info: www.livewords.com and www.bencis.com.

LiveWords bv

Founder / owner

Floorboards offers brand marketeers a new and unique in-store advertising network. Through exclusive partnerships with leading national retail chains the Floorboards Network gives advertisers the possibility to communicate their brand message and link their campaign to their product, right at point of sale, where more than 70% of all buying decisions are made (source: POPAI). Large floormats, placed directly in front of the shelf with the advertised product, increase brand awareness and generate spectacular sales lifts. Since June 2006, Floorboards is part of Centercom, one of the leading providers of instore media in the Netherlands. More info: www.centercom.nl.

Floorboards Instore Advertising

Founder / Owner

Founder of Careerportal, Europe's first online network of  professional recruitment agencies. Careerportal enables agencies to share information about recently interviewed candidates. Participating agencies can log on to a database to access details of a large pool of qualified and immediately employable job-seekers. This helps them to fill vacancies both more frequently and more quickly. Careerportal also enables them to successfully place and satisfy a higher proportion of the candidates that they have interviewed. Careerportal was acquired by StepStone ASA, Europe's market leader for online recruitment solutions, in september 2002.
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Bram Polak