Chief Strategy Officer - Worldticketshop. M&A Strategist - Social Media - Publishing 2.0 - Open Source Evangelist
Groningen Area, Netherlands
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- Publisher - Strategist at Passaat BVBA
- Chief Strategy Officer - CSO at Worldticketshop
- Advisory Board Member at Zephyr Financial Intelligence - Tel Aviv/New York
- Chief Networking Officer at Sparkling Media, London
- Publisher at Free Press Group Netherlands
- Managing Director at Expathos Media
- Past
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- Marketing Director at Island Water World
- Editor at Today Newspaper
- Marketing Director at Budget Marine
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Richard Kastelein’s Summary
C-level strategist with several start-ups with strong skills in Social Media Architecture and Analysis - Community/SNS building using Open Source technology. New Media publishing and remodeled old school print media using on-demand technologies. Top notch communicator.
Adept team player - a publisher, writer, photographer, marketing director, web developer and graphic designer with more than 20 years experience in the development and operation of newspapers, magazines, web media and marketing of multinational, companies in international settings.
Well travelled yachtsman (24,000 nm offshore) with trips overland and by sea (two Transatlantics/one TransPac), outstanding problem solving skills. Published first article to crewing on boats as a lifestyle called 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Sea' in 1991. Lived aboard several sailboats in Caribbean for a decade and built €1.500.000 catamaran in Brazil in 2004.
Current
• Chief Strategy Officer - CSO - Worldticketshop - Netherlands
• Consultant with Passaat BVBA Belgium in building news, opinion and multilingual social media portal for European Travel Industry.
• Social Media Analyst and Publisher, Advisory Board Member of Tel Aviv-based Zephyr Financial Technologies.
• Chief Networking Officer, board member and shareholder of Sparkling Media UK, building Cross Media Social Platform (CMSP) merging telephony 2.0, web, TV, and Virtual environs (3D).
• Built own company in Holland – Expathos – focusing on Social media analysis and strategy, new media publishing, and open source technologies.
Past
• Managed the marketing departments of two Caribbean-based multinational marine companies.
• Editor and publisher of several Caribbean publications.
• Extensive media history with various publications - Native Press in the Canadian Arctic, freelance work for a number of magazines in the boating and travel arenas.
• Skippering sailboats offshore over 15 years as professional skipper.
Richard Kastelein’s Specialties:
* C-level strategist, Social Media analyst and consultant, SNS (virtual 3d, television, mobile and web) expert, Progressive/Alternative Publishing 2.0, Open Source Evangelist, co-developer of the Cross Media Social Platform (CMSP), Eco boat building, alternative propulsion, catamaran construction (see www.avanteyachts.com).
Open Source Evangelist.
Richard Kastelein’s Experience
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Publisher - Strategist
Passaat BVBA
(Airlines/Aviation industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Working on Travolon EU Travel Industry publishing and consulting project with Jan Peeters, former European CEO of Thomas Cook and seasoned European Travel Industry executive.
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Chief Strategy Officer - CSO
Worldticketshop
(Privately Held; Events Services industry)
November 2008 — Present (9 months)
Recently promoted to Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) responsible for assisting the CEO with creating, communicating, executing, and sustaining strategic initiatives within the company. Also speaking for company at World Ticket Summit 2009 in Vegas and working on M&A strategy.
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Advisory Board Member
Zephyr Financial Intelligence - Tel Aviv/New York
(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Advisory Board Member of Zephyr Financial Intelligence in Tel Aviv. Director of Community and Publishing business strategy.
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Chief Networking Officer
Sparkling Media, London
(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Chief Networking Officer - CNO for Sparkling Media based in London, UK and creators of Cross Media Social Platform (CMSP).
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Publisher
Free Press Group Netherlands
(Privately Held; Media Production industry)
September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)
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
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Managing Director
Expathos Media
(Partnership; Media Production industry)
June 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)
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... and he has also sailed, on small sailing vessels, over 25,000 miles offshore (2x Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean and Red Sea), and lived aboard various boats in the Caribbean for over a decade.
He is currently the MD of Expathos, but his roots and education lie in the media and he has held positions as a reporter, investigative journalist, editor, photographer, designer, and publisher of numerous print publications ranging from the Canadian Arctic to the Caribbean and Europe. He has done work for the CBC, the BBC, Pacific Yachting, Yachting Monthly, TNT Travel, and various other international magazines. He is the publisher and founder of the Free Press Group - a leading progressive political online Media Group with over 300 academics, journalists, and writers.
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Richard Kastelein’s Interests:
Sensible political discourse, sailing offshore, open source software, travel literature, innovative cuisine.
Richard Kastelein’s Honors:
Most Published Articles by student - WAP - 1992-93
Two Project Censored Awards - 2007/8 - as publisher of Atlantic Free Press
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