Jak Boumans (1945) is principal consultant with Electronic Media Reporting, a private Dutch consultancy specialised in content strategy. He has a publishing background. Between 1970 and 1980 he was involved in the encyclopedia departments of VNU and Kluwer and got involved in text management. From 1980 he got involved in electronic publishing, running a videotex studio. In 1984 he launched on behalf VNU Business Publications a daily online newsletter for the computer industry from London. In 1987 he was part of the production team that produced the first Dutch subscription legal CD-ROM for Kluwer. In 1990 he started the consultancy Electronic Media Reporting. He produced market research reports on CD-I (1992) and executed project management for electronic publishing projects. In 1996 he produced a business plan for an online alert service for 9 Dutch newspaper publishers on the basis of the Belgian Central Station/Mediargus service. The company performed assignments for ministries (Economic Affairs), international organisations (European Commission, OECD), national organisations (KVGO, GOC) and companies (VNU, Kluwer, PinkRoccade). It also fulfilled two secretariats for professional new media organisations.

He wrote a manual Online Handboek in 1986 and a manual on CD-ROM production in 1994. He has been editor-in-chief of Tele.combrief and a member of the Editorial Board of the magazine Interactive Media International. He writes for national and international trade magazine on electronic publishing and the content industry. He has been a member of the jury for the Europrix (1998-2003), for the EPPY Awards (1997-2001) and for the NetMedia European Online Journalism Awards 2000.