Jacco Doornbos (1971) is CEO & Creative Director of Mediawater, a content-driven international television, print, music & events company based in The Netherlands. Jacco has created and produced as Executive Producer in the past 25 years many award-winning (non-)scripted and live television events and series formats. 

Jacco Doornbos is the creator of The Passion, Holland’s highest rated live musical television event annually since 2011 (grown from 18 to 46% market share) and was awarded the prestigious Dutch TV Statue for best entertainment program in 2014. In 2016 Jacco produced The Passion New Orleans for FOX Network in the U.S., together with renowned music producer Adam Anders and Dick Clark Productions. In 2022, he and his Mediawater team co-produced with Constantin Entertainment Die Passion for RTL in Germany. 

Some of Mediawater’s other prime-time television successes include the annual National Christmas Celebration in Amsterdam, the series In search of God, the annual television event Scrooge Live and the National Bible Test (NBT). The NBT format was also at the bases of the American Bible Challenge on the GMT Network in the U.S.A. 

As creator of The Passion, Jacco Doornbos earned the esteemed Dutch J.B.Th Spaan Prize in 2013, an exclusive biennial award for his ‘remarkable and artistic contribution to the biblical, spiritual and religious life in the Netherlands’. For his series In Search of God he received the Helix Media Award of the Evangelical Alliance for “most innovative evangelizing program“. In the U.S.A. Jacco received the Crown Award for The Passion and a No1 Billboard recognition for the music album of The Passion New Orleans. 

Jacco is married and proud father of three sons. He lives with his wife Perla and their golden retriever on the Dutch countryside, where they have dedicated part of their home as a retreat & shelter for missionaries on leave, ex-convicts and others in need.