Paul Molenaar leads ilse media, the biggest Dutch online publisher. He started his career as a journalist, and soon specialised in tech reporting. He worked as an editor-in-chief of VNU's Personal Computer Magazine, and of IDG's Macworld Magazine where he became managing director, before he joined ilse media as CEO. Part of Sanoma Publishing, ilse media includes popular Dutch websites such as news site NU.nl, directory service Startpagina.nl, a weblog service called Web-log.nl, and youth oriented services as Kaboem.nl and Cu2.nl.