Richard Kastelein
Creative Technologist and Canadian Expatriate based in UK and Netherlands.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://www.appmarket.tv |
| Industries: | Computing, Entertainment, Financial, Gaming, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Retail, Sports, Travel |
| Skills: | Business, Copy Writing, Design, Editing, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Fiction, Graphic design, Guerrilla marketing, Investment, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking, Recruitment, Viral marketing, Web design, Writing |
| Location: | Netherlands/UK |
| Groups: | International Network of Social Entrepreneurs (INSE) |
| Visas: | Dutch Canadian |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Career advice, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Investing in projects, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Participating in a competition, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Shadowing, Sharing my projects, Supporting my investments, Trading services |
| Tags: | connected tv, multiplatform, open source, smart tv, social media, social tv, transmedia, tv apps |
FEATURED STARTUP
Agora Media Group
Agora Media Group
We dream in digital. The small, highly professional team at Agora are passionate about the technologies that now define our world and the way they're moulding our future
- Startup type: Company
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
FULL BIO
Creative Technologist and Canadian Expatriate based in UK and Netherlands. Winner 2010 Deloitte Tech., Media & Telcom (TMT) Predictions for Entrepreneurs in Holland for futurist views on Social TV and Media Convergence (Tech Visionary). 2011 Computerworld Honors Laureate for Innovation - 5-year Atlantic Free Press project honoured for visionary application of IT to promote positive social, economic and educational change including category co-winners from NASA and Duke University. Finalist at IBC's ConnectedWorld.TV Personality of the Year 2011 for work at Appmarket.tv - lost to Marc Zuckerberg from Facebook.
CURRENT
• MD and Partner - Agora Media Group, London, UK
• Publisher - appmarket.tv, NL/UK
• Columnist, The Channel Magazine - Association of International Broadcasters, London, UK
• Venture Partner (Europe) Zephyr Technology Ventures, NYC, USA
• Advisor - Travolon, Leuven, Belgium
PAST
• Mentor - Startup Weekend Groningen 2011 NL
• Mentor - Oxygen Accelerator, Birmingham UK
• Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) - Worldticketshop, NL
• Advisor - Moho Internet Concepts, NL
• Advisor - Pixengo, UK
• Founder - Expathos, NL
• Board @ Sparkling Media UK, Cross Media Social Platform
• Publisher Free Press Group
• Marketing Director of 2 Caribbean multinational marine companies
• Editor/Publisher Caribbean publications.
• Reporter - Native Press - Canadian Arctic
• Yachtsman w/ 24,000 NM offshore
SPEAKING
The Festival Internacional de Televisão 2010 & 2011 BRAZIL
Appsworld, Social TV UK 2010 & 2011
Future of TV Advertising, UK
The Social TV Revolution - Convergence Conversation, UK
D-Media Global Conference UK
Connected Home World Summit 2011, UK
Children's Media Conference Sheffield UK
Multiplatform Apps and Social TV, MIPTV, FRANCE
Disruptive Technologies, MIPCOM, FRANCE
IP&TV World Forum, UK
Smart TV, USA
Social TV Summit, USA
IP and Cable, London, UK
IBC, Amsterdam, NL to Canadian Delegation
Guest Lecturer - University of Groningen, NETHERLANDS
Specialties
Strategist/Innovator - Open Source Evangelist - Technology Evangelist
Well travelled yacht skipper (24k offshore - outstanding leadership and problem-solving skills.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Appmarket.tv |
| Position: | Founder and Publisher |
| Time period: | May 2010 - Present |
| Description: | Appmarket.tv the first online portal, community, directory for creatives, innovators, corporate entities, sellers, buyers, intelligence sources, and more... in the emerging industry around TV applications and widgets. It's inevitable that TV and the Web will come together full force in a convergence that will easily open new doors for the web and mobile development communities due to ported platforms such as HTML 5, Apple, Android, Flash, EBIF and other existing technologies that will make up the future landscape on TV. |
| Employer: | Agora Media Group |
| Position: | MD and Partner |
| Time period: | November 2009 - Present |
| Employer: | Travolon BVBA |
| Position: | Advisor |
| Time period: | October 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Provide strategic advise for Travolon EU Travel Industry publishing and consulting project with Jan Peeters, former CEO North & Eastern Europe at First Choice Holidays PLC
Managing Director at Sunair, Brand Director Novotel Worldwide - Groupe Accor, and seasoned European Travel Industry executive. |
| Employer: | Zephyrnet |
| Position: | Advisory Board Member |
| Time period: | August 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Advisory Board Member of Zephyr Financial Intelligence in Tel Aviv. Director of Community and Publishing business strategy. |
| Employer: | Zephyr Technology Ventures |
| Position: | Venture Partner |
| Time period: | June 2008 - Present |
| Employer: | Sparkling Media |
| Position: | Chief Networking Officer |
| Time period: | October 2007 - Present |
| Description: | CNO for Sparkling Media - based in London, UK and creators of Cross Media Social Platform (CMSP). |
| Employer: | Pixengo Limited |
| Position: | Advisory Board |
| Time period: | May 2009 - June 2011 |
| Employer: | Moho Internet Concepts |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | February 2009 - September 2010 |
| Description: | Consultant and Strategist for Moho Internet Concepts (Sunnywatches) - an Ecommerce company in the Netherlands. |
| Employer: | EU Ticket News |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | November 2008 - June 2011 |
| Employer: | Worldticketshop |
| Position: | Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) |
| Time period: | November 2008 - September 2010 |
| Description: | Responsible for assisting the CEO with creating, communicating, executing, and sustaining strategic initiatives within the company. Also speaking for company at international industry events. |
| Employer: | Sparkling Media, London |
| Position: | Chief Networking Officer |
| Time period: | November 2007 - July 2009 |
| Description: | Chief Networking Officer - CNO for Sparkling Media based in London, UK and creators of Cross Media Social Platform (CMSP). |
| Employer: | Free Press Group Netherlands |
| Position: | Publisher |
| Time period: | September 2005 - September 2009 |
| Description: | Managing Director and Proprietor of Free Press Group - under V.O.F. Expathos - Netherlands. Free Press Group includes Atlantic and Pacific Free Press, Empire Burlesque, AFP Kudos, Gorilla Radio and Safehost Netherlands |
| Employer: | Expathos Medi |
| Position: | Managing Director |
| Time period: | June 2005 - October 2009 |
| Description: | Expathos is a professional web development and design network based in the Netherlands run by Social Media Strategist and Architect Richard Kastelein. He began developing online communities (forums at first) in 1998. |
| Employer: | Island Water World |
| Position: | Marketing Director |
| Time period: | March 2002 - January 2003 |
| Description: | Managed the marketing department of Caribbean-based multinational marine supply and service company. Duties included company re-branding, heading team to redevelop 200-plus page print and online catalogues. Developed new sales and customer programs to secure developing markets in the region such the megayacht market and secure 'bread and butter' clientele such as the world cruising community. |
| Employer: | Godfather Media |
| Position: | Senior Publicist |
| Time period: | August 2001 - January 2002 |
| Description: | Guided Public Relations for Godfather Records Artists, Producers and Engineers. Concert promotion in alliance with R&R Productions included Joe Bonamassa, Nigel Williams and Shaggy. Utilized pan-Caribbean media contacts to push events successfully. |
| Employer: | Today Newspaper |
| Position: | Editor |
| Time period: | February 2001 - May 2002 |
| Description: | Conceptualized, designed, laid-out, reported, photographed and headed all of Today's supplements including a weekly entertainment magazine, Carnival, World Environmental Day, and the visiting of the Dutch Royalty etc. Also broke major investigative stories on human smuggling, the Chinese mafia, the rise of tourism crime, and the cocaine trade and police in St. Maarten. |
| Employer: | Budget Marine |
| Position: | Marketing Director |
| Time period: | September 1999 - January 2002 |
| Description: | Managed the marketing departments of Caribbean-based multinational marine supply and service company. Duties included company re-branding, heading team to redevelop 200-plus page print and online catalogues. Developed new sales and customer programs to secure developing markets in the region such the megayacht market and secure 'bread and butter' clientele such as the world cruising community. |
| Employer: | What's On Entertainment |
| Position: | Managing Editor |
| Time period: | January 1999 - February 2000 |
| Description: | Start-up and lead position of successful biweekly entertainment magazine focussing on nightlife, activities, music and art and culture on the island of St. Maarten. Duties included writing articles, photography, and herding of freelancers for What's On. Highlights included articles on parachuting, eating out once a week as a roving restaurant critic and in-depth articles on Caribbean musicians. |
| Employer: | St. Martin's Week |
| Position: | English Editor |
| Time period: | February 1994 - September 1995 |
| Description: | English Editor and photographer for St. Martin's Week, a weekly bilingual newspaper based in Marigot on French St. Martin. Was St. Martin's first restaurant reviewer and entertainment columnist. Included covering the tourist and English-speaking 'expat' communities as well as working in production with photo-editing and layout. |
| Employer: | Slave River Journal |
| Position: | Reporter |
| Time period: | January 1992 - December 1993 |
| Description: | Cut my teeth as a young reporter in the Canadian Northwest Territories. Covered national level news as well as territorial... and participated in publishing from 'old style' darkroom, pasteup to writing opinion, news and photography. |
PUBLICATIONS
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Sensible political discourse, sailing offshore, open source software, travel literature, innovative cuisine.
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| Hobbies: | My Kids |
| Memberships: | Amnesty International, Caribbean Cruising Association, International Boatbuilders Association (IBBA) |
| Awards: | Most Published Articles by student - WAP - 1992-93
Two Project Censored Awards - 2007/8 - as publisher of Atlantic Free Press |
Richard's Startups (5)
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Worldticketshop
Worldticketshop.com is a private company that buys and sells tickets to all major music and sports events worldwide: from Celine Dion to Bruce Springsteen, from football to Formula 1. Worldticketshop.com is based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Sparkling Media
We would boldly like you to go.... where few broadcast TV stations have gone before... to a Cross Media Social Platform.
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Zephyr Financial Technologies
Zephyr’s Web Based platform creates a completely new 360° environment to access and analyze global financial data
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Expathos
Expathos is a network of talent from the Netherlands to Japan that supplies services of social media strategy, analysis and architecture, as well as advice and resources on social media, web design and development, social networking and content management
