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Rhodes, Darwin, Stuyvesant and Vespucci were adventurers in the purest sense of the word, roaming the world yearning for discovery and knowledge. Jacob Gelt Dekker is the modern day equivalent with an entrepreneurial spin. Through his adventures he has found his personal paradise, which his knowledge and experience permits him to present to the world through his creation of Project Kura Hulanda in Curacao.
His efforts on all these fronts have been recognized with a knighthood from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, naming Jacob Gelt Dekker an Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau, presented at Fort Amsterdam in, the residence of the Governor of the Netherlands Antilles in Willemstad,
Curacao.
Welcome to the personal website of present-day adventurer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Jacob Gelt Dekker. |
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Born in Oterleek in the
Netherlands in 1948, Jacob Gelt Dekker's youth was
chronologically the same as other children, but
philosophically quite brief. Plagued by illness
throughout his childhood, Jacob was driven to survive
and not only beat the odds. |
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Selected Writings and Lecture material, of jacob's speeches and lectures of the last years. If you have seen Jacob in a convention, public event or somewhere else you can find, review and download all speeches and lecture materials here. |
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Jacob's entrepreneurial flare led him to open 120 one-hour photo shops in Europe, which he later sold to Kodak for an undisclosed sum. With an aggressive acquisition and expansion policy, Holland Car Leasing BV resulted in the largest car rental chain in the Benelux and a few Scandinavian countries. |
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Jacob officially retired in the late 1990s and wanderlust took hold. He traveled the world extensively for a combination of business and research. Jacob has circumnavigated the world more than 50 times. Find some of his discoveries here. |
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Jacob poured his energy and fortune into creating the JADE Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing education and providing assistance to the children of Curacao, and around the world. "I have always cared about people, not material things" says Jacob. |
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