Jacek Kowalski

 (born August 2, 1935) is the founder and CEO of Nippol.

Bio
Jacek was born in in modern-day  in. During the occupation of Poland, he and his family lived in exile in.

When he returned to Poland with his family at the end of the war, he became a newspaper salesman, and was involved in marketing The Moomins in the region, and was also involved in the creation of the stop-motion animated series .

In 1967, he founded the Polmacja Export Group to import animation from other socialist countries. In 1973, he was visiting when he happened upon a broadcast of the  on a hotel television. He flipped through channels and discovered other anime playing on different TV stations. He then decided to switch the focus of Polmacja to importing Japanese anime and films, and renamed the company to the Polish-Japanese Animation and Film Export Group, shortened in Polish to Nippol.