Guido van Nispen

CEO of ANP, Netherlands national news agency.

The Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP) (Netherlands national news agency), is The Netherlands’ largest news agency and supplies independent news and information to virtually all Dutch media - such as television, radio, newspapers, Internet, mobile, magazines – as well as to the public and private sectors.

Guido is on the supervisory board of Triodos Cultuurfonds and Advisor to the Dutch Council for Culture. Guido is/has been active as jury /mentor and expert roles for activities and organisations such as: European Lovie Awards, Accenture Innovation Awards and Rockstart Accelerator. These activities give Guido the opportunity to have an insight at the frontiers of finance, media and technology developments and to spot talent.


Guido was one of the fund managers of the investment fund DCIF (Dutch Creative Industry Fund) with Sanoma, Telegraaf Media Group, V-Ventures and IDG Netherlands participating as equity partners.

Before joining ANP Guido was also in venture management at V-Ventures, the investment company that owns ANP. Before V-Ventures Guido held several executive and director positions, in different European countries both in general and venture management and consulting among other with BT. 



Parallel to his commercial roles Guido has held non-for-profit Board positions at the Amsterdam Crossmedia Week foundation (PICNIC festival), Lift-conference, MINDS International and IPAN the interactive professionals organization of The Netherlands.


Guido is an avid photographer himself and interested in photojournalism.

Specialties: TIME sector knowledge both at commercial enterprises and non-for-profit organizations both as executive officer as well as shareholder or board member.