Richard Kastelein

Current

CEO - Co-founder at Agora Media Group
Chief Strategy Officer - CSO at Worldticketshop
Advisory Board Member at Pixengo

Advisory Board Member at Zephyr Financial Intelligence - Tel Aviv/New York
Managing Director at Expathos Media

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Past

Publisher at Free Press Group Netherlands
Publisher - Strategist at Travolon
Chief Networking Officer at Sparkling Media, London

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Education

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Richard Kastelein’s Summary

C-level strategist with several start-ups with strong skills in Social Media and Social TV 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 - 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 sailboats in Caribbean for a decade and built €1.200.000 catamaran in Brazil in 2004.

Current

• Chief Strategy Officer - CSO - Worldticketshop - Netherlands

• Chief Executive Officer - CEO - Agora Media Group, London

• Advisory Board Member of Tel Aviv-based Zephyr Financial Technologies.

• Advisory Board Member of Pixengo, UK

• 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.

Past

• Board member and shareholder of Sparkling Media UK, building Cross Media Social Platform (CMSP) merging telephony 2.0, web, TV, and Virtual environs (3D).

• 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, freelanced for a number of magazines in boating and travel.

• Skippering sailboats offshore over 15 years as professional skipper.

Richard Kastelein’s Specialties:

* C-level strategist, Social Media, Social TV and Converging Media analyst and consultant, Creativity and Innovation.

Open Source Evangelist.

Richard Kastelein’s Experience

CEO - Co-founder

Agora Media Group

(Privately Held; Online Media industry)

September 2009 — Present (3 months)

We are still building the site so please bear in mind if you find some irrelevant pages.

Small is better. That's how we feel. Rather than farm out, hire extensively, and dilute our own brand, Agora Media Group is a tight, highly experienced group of well seasoned Internet gurus holding a diverse range of skill sets which, when fused, creates a team that can handle almost any project internally... from Social TV to Augmented Reality to 3D, Social Media to Print Media, Search Engine Strategy to building highly effective Applications.

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. We are first and foremost great communicators. We are creatives who truly understand how the Web connects us all, and we all want to shape the conversation. We are restless innovators who are not just waiting for the next big idea to come along, we're part of making it happen. The team at Agora are unique talents, visionaries, experimenters, and live and play on the cutting edge of technology. Agora helps build great brands by creating engaging, experiential environments in the digital world. With our feet planted in the early Internet, our seasoned, multi talented team has done hundreds of cutting edge, innovative projects for a wide array of Fortune 500 clients, startups, and a variety of others across the globe. Created in London, Agora Media Group's roots are in The Netherlands and Japan and the team itself has Canadian, Australian, Italian and Dutch partners.
Chief Strategy Officer - CSO

Worldticketshop

(Privately Held; Events Services industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

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.
Advisory Board Member

Pixengo

(Media Production industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Advisory board member for angel round startup Pixengo.com
Advisory Board Member

Zephyr Financial Intelligence - Tel Aviv/New York

(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Advisory Board Member of Zephyr Financial Intelligence in Tel Aviv. Director of Community and Publishing business strategy.
Managing Director

Expathos Media

(Partnership; Media Production industry)

June 2005 — Present (4 years 6 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.

Additional Information

Richard Kastelein’s Websites:

Richard Kastelein’s Interests:

Social TV, Media Convergence, Sensible political discourse, sailing offshore, open source software, travel literature, innovative cuisine.

Richard Kastelein’s Groups:

Amnesty International, Caribbean Cruising Association, International Boatbuilders Association (IBBA)

Online News Association
The Media Group - Production, Exhibition, Broadcast and 3D
International Television Expert Group (www.itve.org)
Publishing Professionals
Consultants Network
Speakers and Panelists
Open Source Universe
ThoseinMedia
Online Publishers Network
Book Publishing Professionals
European Internet Professionals
Social Media Today
Augmented Reality Professionals
World Executives Sailing Club
Online reporters and editors
Media Professionals Worldwide
Hotel Technology Next Generation
Yachting Industry Networking Group
FOLIO: MediaPRO -- Magazine & eMedia Publishing Professionals
Sailing | A sea level network
Venture Capital Group
Magazine
Mobile start-ups - 7,000+ members and growing!
Pirates in the Caribbean
Worldwide Expedition Professionals
Triiibes Members
Future Social Media
VirtualWorlds
Caribbean Cruising Association
Social Media, Social TV, Monitoring, Mobile Social Networks, Marketing, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, PR
Interactive Media Worldwide
Innovate!Europe
Wired Journalists
Mobile Augmented Reality
Expatriate Writers and Journalists
Boating Industry
Deloitte Fast50 Benelux network
National CEO Network
STVNW'10 Social TV: the Next Wave
New Venture
Social TV - next generation media (Web 2.0, mobile, digital video broadcast, DTV, STB, MHEG, IPTV)
Europe Talks Tickets (ETT)
Social TV Group - Television 2.0 - Convergence and Community
EU Ticket News - Europe's B2B Source for Ticketing and Events Industry News