PIETER STORMS, has been active in the media since 1976. Starting in 1976, he worked for the weekly publication Revu for 14 years, making a name for himself with ‘exposé journalism’. He thus publicised, among other things, the fiscal faux pas of Minister President Lubbers, described the downfall of the OGEM conglomerate, revealed the illicit-money morality of the banks by offering the banks illicit funds, reported extensively about the jungle war in Suriname, wrote a series of articles about the professional morals of Dutch business under the title ‘Zaken zijn Zaken’ (‘Business is business’). As a cycling fanatic, he reported from out of the pack, where he stayed true to his nature by offering revelations about the doping of the PDM cycling team.

In 1990, Pieter Storms was a founding force and publisher of De Krant op Zondag (‘The Paper on Sunday’). Distribution problems in particular plagued the paper, which was forced to close its doors in July 1992.

In 1994, Pieter Storms again took the spotlight, but now on television as Breekijzer, a role that seemed to be written for him. As a modern Robin Hood, he looked after the voiceless consumer who is strangled by bureaucracy. For more than 10 years, he was the bane of spokespersons and companies that treated consumer interests with arrogance.

Pieter Storms started his own production company in 1995, ‘The Stormsfactory’ and produced scores of productions for practically all the Dutch television stations.

Pieter Storms has two children, Isabelle 1990 and Leon 1993, from his first marriage. He remarried in 2007 with Nina Brink, and they currently live in Monaco.

In recent years, Pieter Storms has worked more in the shadows and developed formats for scores of media outlets.