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Jiangxi Vocational and Technical College of Information (江西信息应用职业技术学院)

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Western Academy of Photography

Blockchain Strategist, Publisher, Writer, Editor, Marketer, Communications Specialist.

Groningen, Netherlands

Kicking off in 2015, This project was born of the desire to create an online repository and community for news and opinion about blockchain technology and theory. The lofty goal was to share market intelligence and science on the emerging uses of blockchain outside of cryptocurrency as one of the earliest publications to focus on what can be done with blockchain outside of Bitcoin.

Blockchain News (EST 2015)

Founder and Publisher of Blockchain News Publication

I am advising some young local entrepreneurs in my local city of Groningen at The Global Funeral Care Foundation - a FinTech startup based in the Netherlands working in the field of the growing blockchain and cryptocurrency space. I am helping them to develop a decentralized platform to support the funeral industry worldwide.

Global Funeral Care Foundation

Strategic Advisor

Founded by the former head of innovation at Microsoft UK, Adrian Clarke, Evident Proof is a blockchain, Ethereum and token-based service that turns data into immutable proof of evidence chains that aims to deliver immutable data, provenance and proof services to businesses and ndividuals.

Evident Proof

Member of the advisory board at Decentralized Pictures, a 501c3 foundation to promote the cinematic arts. Founded by well-known independent film company American Zoetrope, it's strategically aligned with the ethos of promoting independent film, creative collaboration, technology, and community.

Decentralized Pictures Foundation

London-based Token.Agency is a leading consultancy in the tokenized revolution - having worked on more than 50 Blockchain projects with both startup and enterprise projects. We have worked on projects in retail, banking, health, humanitarian issues, clean energy, film, TV, music, art, gaming, and more.

Token.Agency

Managing Director

Since 2016, former NSA-affiliated cryptographer and professor, Dr Christian Seberino and I have successfully run four-hour, live, remote, online courses for Oracle, the world’s second-largest software company.

Blockchain Partners

Advisory board member of Tymlez - who provide the Dutch government and enterprises with a hyper-scalable enterprise-level blockchain architecture which enables them to develop, deploy and scale up distributed blockchain applications which can also be integrated into their legacy systems and data.

Tymlez

I gave strategic advice to Ammbr in the early days. It's now working in Africa in Guinea-Bissau, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Burundi and the  Democratic_Republic of the Congo to help bring the Internet to people who do not have an Internet connection, or it is of poor quality.

Ammbr

Co-Founder of the Hackitarians Foundation in Amsterdam with Jurjen Sohne. We organised some of the world's coolest and largest hackathons in San Francisco, Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, Groningen, London and more....

The Hackitarians

Co-Founder

Contracted Expert for the  European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator (SME Instrument) that supports top-class innovators, entrepreneurs and small companies with funding opportunities and acceleration services.

European Commission

Judge

I was a regular contributor to The Guardian Insights as an expert on the future of TV and film technologies and emerging industry production formats such as transmedia, machinima, social TV, TVod, Netflix etc.

The Guardian

Freelance Contributor

I was a regular blogger at <a href="http://Wired.com">Wired.com</a>'s Innovation Insights was a blog and community site where ideas become part of the conversation on the next generation of tech. A number of my articles made it to the front page of <a href="http://Wired.com">Wired.com</a> online.

Wired Magazine

Founder of The Hackfest (Format acquired in 2013 by Apps World Event) that ran hackathons in TV, Auto, Gaming, IoT,Health, and Blockchain around the world from San Francisco to Berlin, Amsterdam to London.

The Hackfest

Contracted Innovation competitions assessor and judge for Innovate UK - Creative Industries and ICTomorrow, I have helped dole out millions of pounds to innovative startups in the United Kingdom. It's extraordinary work that I love doing.

Innovate UK

Future TV and Film technology instructor for British Telecom in London, UK. The courses were called "Monetizing IPTV: Commercial Models In A Connected World" and "The Emerging TV Landscape".

Perpetual Solutions

Instructor

Contracted for first two shows to help develop MIPCUBE by Reed Midem in 2011 and 2012. MIPCube is the MIPTV innovation lab where experts and pioneers come together to shape the future of TV – in all its forms.

Reed MIDEM

Event Specialist

TV App Market was an early online portal for the emerging industry around the future of TV and film applications including Social TV, Connected TV, Transmedia Storytelling, VOD, DLNA, Machinima and more. Founded in 2010.

TV App Market

Publisher

Wrote regularly for The Channel Magazine for the Association For International Broadcasting (the trade association for TV, radio and digital broadcasting) on topics such as Hacking TV, Temporal Metadata, Social TV and TV Apps In 2012.

AIB - Association for International Broadcasting

Columnist

Consultant and Strategist for Moho Internet Concepts (now Brandfield)  - an Ecommerce company in the Netherlands.

Brandfield

Consultant

Penned articles on startups and sailing at <a href="http://Virgin.com">Virgin.com</a>

Virgin Media

Responsible for assisting the CEO with creating, communicating, executing, and sustaining strategic initiatives within the company. Also speaking for company at international industry events.

Worldticketshop

Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)

Director at Agora Media Innovation, a media company that connected the dots around media convergence and the future of TV.

Agora Media Ltd.

Chief Networking Officer - CNO for Sparkling Media  based in London, UK and creators of Cross Media Social Platform (CMSP).

Sparkling Media, London

Chief Community Officer

Took break from the Media to build a $1.5 million catamaran in Brazil in a deal I put together online with investors from USA to partners in Brazil. Started with Brazil Boats in Ilhabela then moved North to launch Avante Yachts in Itamaracá.

Avante Yachts

Managing Director and Proprietor of Free Press Group - under V.O.F. Expathos - Netherlands. The Free Press Group was a project that included publishing and hacktivism in the progressive political sphere post-911 to 2011. It included Atlantic Free Press, Pacific Free Press, Empire Burlesque, Gorilla Radio and Safehost Netherlands..

Free Press Group Netherlands

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.

Island Water World

Marketing Director

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.

Today Newspaper St. Martin

Features Editor

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.

Budget Marine

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.

What's On Entertainment

Managing Editor

English Editor and photographer for St. Martin's Week, Le Journal du St. Barth, Caribbean Yachting & Fishing. Was St. Martin's first restaurant reviewer and entertainment columnist. Included covering the tourist and English-speaking 'expatriate' communities as well as working in production with photo-editing and layout.

St. Martin's Week, Le Journal du St. Barth, Caribbean Yachting & Fishing

English Editor

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.

Slave River Journal

Journalist

Have sailing instruction qualifications and experience from the keelboat level to the Intermediate Coastal Cruising level of the American Sailing Association standards and the Basic Coastal Cruising level of the Canadian Yachting Association. Also completed more than 50 deliveries in the Eastern Caribbean for several charter companies and taught in the ‘Cruise and Learn’ format. Day Charter experience includes running ‘Gabrielle’, a Morgan 46, in St. Maarten for over a year. Am familiar with all facets of general boat and engine troubleshooting and repair and have owned three sailboats over 36 feet in the past ten years including a Morgan Heritage 38, a steel Joshua (of Bernard Moitessier fame) at 37 feet, and an Endurance 37. Over 25,000 offshore miles logged.CYA Basic Coastal Cruising Instructor, ASA Keelboat Instructor, ASA Basic Coastal Cruising Instructor, and ASA Intermediate Coastal Cruising Instructor. Please see  <a href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/3181054/Sailing-and-Boating-History-Richard-Kasteleinand">https://www.behance.net/gallery/3181054/Sailing-and-Boating-History-Richard-Kasteleinand</a> <a href="https://medium.com/@expathos/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-sea-1ccf29b42726#.6rhb3jyau">https://medium.com/@expathos/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-sea-1ccf29b42726#.6rhb3jyau</a>

Richard Kastelein

Richard Kastelein