Norman Rentrop

Mr. Norman Rentrop is a Chairman-Supervisory Board at VNR Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG, a Publishing Director at Verlag Norman Rentrop and a Chairman at Rentrop Investment Office.
His family office invests in undervalued public companies, merger arbitrage, special situations, enhanced indexing, Berkshire Hathaway, and private equity with a very long-term outlook.
He brings a very entrepreneurial view to investing being not afraid of investing against sometimes even high sentiment, yet is a very hands-off investor like his outstanding role model Warren Buffett.
He built a Euro 100 m professional publishing company from scratch.
He moved from the operational side of the publishing company to the chairman of the supervisory board to have more time for inner reflection and his family.
He is an investor in both private and public equity.
Founded in 1975, the company employs 300 people and over 400 authors at its Bonn, Germany headquarters, and over 600 people and 1,000 authors are employed worldwide.
The group publishes over 100 newsletters, loose-leaf services, and magazines in the fields of marketing, public speaking, finance, investment, real estate, human resources, taxation, stock market analysis, business expansion, and more.
In private equity, he has invested in 18 companies in Britain, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Romania, Russia, China, USA with an IRR of 16.5% p.a.
(1991–2002).
Among his known investments have been Sunday Business Post, n-tv (the German news channel), and ADI Auftragsdienst der Deutschen Industrie (Construction Market).
In October 2003, he gained 14% of publicly traded Borussia Dortmund (Germany's top league soccer team).