Kommer Damen (born 1944) is a Dutch

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...

, and the chairman of the Netherlands-based

Damen Shipyards The Damen Group is a Dutch defence, shipbuilding, and engineering conglomerate company based in Gorinchem, Netherlands. Though it is a major international group doing business in 120 countries, it remains a private family-owned company. Dame ...

. Damen Shipyards was established in 1927 in the Dutch town of

Hardinxveld-Giessendam Hardinxveld-Giessendam () is a municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It is located about 10 km east of Dordrecht, on the river Beneden-Merwede. The municipality had a population of in and covers an area ...

by brothers Jan and Marinus Damen. In 1969 Jan Damen's son, Kommer took over, since then the company has built over 5,000 vessels. Damen is married with four children and lives in

Noordeloos Noordeloos is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Molenlanden, and lies about north of Gorinchem. In 2013, the town of Noordeloos had 1816 inhabitants. The built-up area of the town was 0.14 ...

, Netherlands.

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1944 births Living people Dutch billionaires Dutch businesspeople People from Hardinxveld-Giessendam Businesspeople from Gorinchem {{Netherlands-business-bio-stub