Richard Kastelein
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Summary
Canadian Expatriate. Winner of 2010 Deloitte Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions for Entrepreneurs in the Netherlands for futurist views on Social TV and Media Convergence (Tech Visionary). Co-founder of appmarket.tv – TV Apps & Widgets.
Guest Lecturer @ Hanze University in Groningen, Netherlands. Recent approval (provisional on funding) to do part-time MBA at Hanze University – Sept 2010.
C-level strategist w/ start-ups – strong in Social Media and Social TV Architecture/Analysis – Community building using Open Source technology. New Media publishing and on-demand technologies. Open Source Evangelist. Technology Evangelist.
Adept team player – 20 years in development and operation of newspapers, magazines, web media and marketing of multinational, companies in international settings.
Well travelled yachtsman (24,000 nm offshore), outstanding problem solving skills.
Current
• Publisher/Founder – App Market TV, NL
• Managing Director – EU Ticket News, NL
• CEO – Agora Media Group, London, UK
• Advisory Board – Pixengo, London, UK
• eCommerce Consultant – Worldticketshop, NL
• Web Consultant – Moho Internet Concepts, NL
Past
• Venture Partner (Europe) Zephyr Technology Ventures, New York
• Consultant with Travolon Belgium in building news, opinion and multilingual social media portal for European Travel Industry.
• Built own company in NL – Expathos – focusing on Social media analysis and strategy, new media publishing, and open source technologies.
• Board member and shareholder of Sparkling Media UK, building Cross Media Social Platform (CMSP) merging telephony 2.0, web, TV, and Virtual (3D)
• Managed marketing departments of two Caribbean multinational marine companies.
• Editor and publisher of several Caribbean publications.
• Extensive media history with publications – Native Press in the Canadian Arctic, freelanced for a number of magazines in boating and travel.
• Skippered sailboats offshore over 15 years as professional yachtsman.
Specialties
Strategist/Innovator – experience leading successful growth activities within rapidly growing businesses in the technology sector. Demonstrable ability to achieve bottom-line results while balancing competing priorities. Flexible and self-reliant. Strong communication skills, both written and the ability to represent organizations and deliver presentations for diverse audiences. Experience in strategic planning and execution.
Life Snippets
- Been known as a ‘grottie yottie’ while living barefoot onboard our sailing vessel GOLEM in the Caribbean for ten years.
- Was covered by Avantoure Magazine for sailing lifestyle.
- Built a 1.3 million dollar catamaran in Brazil in 2004.
- Publisher and founder of http://www.atlanticfreepress.com – a group of online
publications that work with over 300 academics and media creatives who
focus on progressive politics and ideas. - Open Source CMS junkie having been in movement since phpnuke all the way to Joomla.
- Viral web projects including thankyouqwest.org and unassociatedpress.net covered by NYT’s, USA Today, IHT, CNN and more…
- Sailed across Med and Atlantic with wife in 1994 on small sailboat. Indian Ocean in 1990. Pacific in 1991.
- Interviewed Canada’s first woman astronaut, Roberta Bondar, about
what the Northern Lights looked like from above… while looking at
them from below in the Canadian Arctic. - Did over 100 restaurant and bar reviews as Editor of What’s ON St. Martin and St. Martin’s Week.
- Published on demand print book by Chris Floyd on Amazon.com called
‘Empire Burlesque‘ , and Oceania by Andre
Vltchek as well as theologist Jan Chr. Vaessen’s A Quest For Hope: Searching For Ways Out Of Postmodern Nihilism Into New Reality - Devised and innovated on new system to deliver a Quest 3D
environment from TV to the web using a wowza flash streamer, advanced streaming
capture solutions, and delivery on a linux server. - Broke international story and uncovered a human smuggling ring as an
investigative reporter in St. Maarten. - Wrote the Hitchhiker’s guide to the sea, the first travel guide on
crewing on sailboats in 1991 after sailing around the world hitching on
yachts. - Delivered sailboats for a year between the Virgin Islands and St. Maarten for Sunsail. Threw bottle with resume on the beaches of Richard Branson’s Necker Island while sailing by hoping to connect…
- Fathered three lovely daughters all currently under eight. Married to a Groningense for a dozen years.
