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).
Guest Lecturer at 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
• Managing Director - EU Ticket News, Netherlands
• CEO - Agora Media Group, London, UK
• Advisory Board Member of Pixengo, London, UK
• Consultant - Worldticketshop Netherlands
• Consultant - Moho Internet Concepts
Past
• Venture Partner (Europe) Zephyr Technology Ventures, New York, USA
• Consultant with Travolon Belgium in building news, opinion and
multilingual social media portal for European Travel Industry.
• Built own company in Holland – 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-based 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.
Richard Kastelein - Linkedin
Write, photograph, design, code, dream, organize, structure, feed,
mould, shape, feel, warp, laugh, smile, elucidate, innovate,
invigorate, appreciate, empathize, sympathize, enterprise...
