1. Michiel Mol was born on 4 August 1969 and is a Dutch businessman, and former director of Spyker F1 and Force India.
11 Facts About Michiel Mol
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Michiel Mol was successful, and following flotation on the stock market in 1988, Volmac was purchased by CAP Gemini in 1992.
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Michiel Mol remained on the board and kept the Lost Boys Games division, before establishing a new company called Media Republic, aiming to use new technology to market products.
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Michiel Mol supported Dutch driver Jos Verstappen through his Lost Boys brand, including sponsoring the Arrows Grand Prix team.
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In 2006, Michiel Mol led a group of directors with the Spyker Cars company to purchase the Midland F1 Team from Alex Shnaider for $106.6million.
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Michiel Mol was appointed F1 Race Director of the newly formed team.
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On 16 May 2007, Michiel Mol was appointed interim CEO of Spyker Cars.
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From 2008, the team became known as Force India and Michiel Mol retained a share until 2018 when the team went into administration and was purchased by Lawrence Stroll.
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Michiel Mol is a co-founder of Space Expedition Corporation, which intends to offer suborbital space tourism flights and scientific research missions out of Space Port Curacao.
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Michiel Mol was since renamed XCOR Aerospace, and filed for bankruptcy in 2017.
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In July 2004, Michiel Mol married Paulien Huizinga, a former Miss Universe Netherlands and now a Dutch TV personality.