About: Bessel Kok     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:WikicatDutchPeople, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FBessel_Kok

Bessel Kok (born 13 December 1941 in Hilversum, Netherlands) is a Dutch businessman and chess organiser living in Prague. He has served in top management positions in telecommunications companies in Belgium (Belgacom) and in the Czech Republic. He was also President of the Belgian-based Banking communications company SWIFT and responsible for SWIFT's sponsorship of several major International chess events. Kok was the Chairman of from 1985 until 1991, and helped to establish the 2002 Prague Agreement concerning the World Chess Championship.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Bessel Kok (ca)
  • Bessel Kok (cs)
  • Bessel Kok (de)
  • Bessel Kok (en)
  • Bessel Kok (fr)
  • Bessel Kok (nl)
rdfs:comment
  • Bessel Kok (Hilversum, 13 de desembre de 1941) és un empresari neerlandès, mecenes i organitzador de torneigs d'escacs. (ca)
  • Bessel Kok (* 13. prosince 1941, Hilversum, Nizozemsko) je nizozemský podnikatel, žijící od poloviny 90. let 20. st. v Praze. Je jedním ze zakladatelů mezibankovní sítě SWIFT. Pracoval také ve vrcholovém managementu v telekomunikacích. Je bývalým prezidentem šachové Velmistrovské asociace. (cs)
  • Bessel Kok (* 13. Dezember 1941 in Hilversum; vollständiger Name André Frans Bessel Kok) ist ein niederländischer Manager und Schachorganisator. (de)
  • Bessel Kok est un homme d'affaires néerlandais, mécène et organisateur de tournoi d'échecs né le 13 décembre 1941 à Hilversum, aux Pays-Bas. (fr)
  • Bessel Kok (born 13 December 1941 in Hilversum, Netherlands) is a Dutch businessman and chess organiser living in Prague. He has served in top management positions in telecommunications companies in Belgium (Belgacom) and in the Czech Republic. He was also President of the Belgian-based Banking communications company SWIFT and responsible for SWIFT's sponsorship of several major International chess events. Kok was the Chairman of from 1985 until 1991, and helped to establish the 2002 Prague Agreement concerning the World Chess Championship. (en)
  • Bessel Kok (Hilversum, 13 december 1941) was een van de grondleggers van SWIFT, waar hij CEO was van 1980 tot 1991. Later stond hij aan het hoofd van Belgacom van 1992 tot 1995. Tot 2004 was hij werkzaam als vicevoorzitter bij . In 1985 richtte hij samen met Gary Kasparov de op, waarvan hij tot 1991 voorzitter was. In 2006 was hij kandidaat voorzitter van de FIDE, maar hij verloor de verkiezing met 54-96 van Kirsan Iljoemzjinov. In 2011 werd Kok bestuurslid van de nieuwe (fusie-)wielerploeg Omega Pharma - Quick Step. (nl)
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
has abstract
  • Bessel Kok (Hilversum, 13 de desembre de 1941) és un empresari neerlandès, mecenes i organitzador de torneigs d'escacs. (ca)
  • Bessel Kok (* 13. prosince 1941, Hilversum, Nizozemsko) je nizozemský podnikatel, žijící od poloviny 90. let 20. st. v Praze. Je jedním ze zakladatelů mezibankovní sítě SWIFT. Pracoval také ve vrcholovém managementu v telekomunikacích. Je bývalým prezidentem šachové Velmistrovské asociace. (cs)
  • Bessel Kok (born 13 December 1941 in Hilversum, Netherlands) is a Dutch businessman and chess organiser living in Prague. He has served in top management positions in telecommunications companies in Belgium (Belgacom) and in the Czech Republic. He was also President of the Belgian-based Banking communications company SWIFT and responsible for SWIFT's sponsorship of several major International chess events. Kok was the Chairman of from 1985 until 1991, and helped to establish the 2002 Prague Agreement concerning the World Chess Championship. Kok is also active in the arts. He was the producer of the film The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton about British businessman Nicholas Winton who rescued children from the Nazis. The film won an Emmy Award in 2002. Kok ran a campaign for presidency of the World Chess Federation against the incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in 2006. The election was held in June, 2006, in Torino, Italy during the World Chess Olympiad and Kok lost 54–96 to Ilyumzhinov. As of 2013, Bessel Kok was an Executive Chairman of the pro cycling team Omega Pharma Quick-Step. He is also Chairman of the related Bakala Academy, a center for sport development. Kok produced the film The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2002), which won an Emmy. In 2004, he organized the Cow Parade art exhibition in Prague. (en)
  • Bessel Kok (* 13. Dezember 1941 in Hilversum; vollständiger Name André Frans Bessel Kok) ist ein niederländischer Manager und Schachorganisator. (de)
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (62 GB total memory, 54 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software