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.



Whilst the mainstream media players are quietly pushing their technology and innovation teams to the maximum across the world in a race to marry Social Media and TV, most of the public remains oblivious and left out of the loop, mainly due to offerings being in Proof of Concept (POC) stage or not even… and still on the chalkboard.






