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About Richard Kastelein Founder and publisher of industry publicationNews (EST 2015), partner at ICO services collective CryptoAsset Design Group ($500m+ and 50+ ICOs), director of education company Blockchain Partners (Oracle Partner) – Vancouver native Richard Kastelein is an award-winning publisher, innovation executive and entrepreneur. He sits on the advisory boards of some two dozen Blockchain startupsand has written over 1500 articles on Blockchain technology andstartups at Blockchain News and has also published pioneering articles on ICOs in Harvard Business Review and Venturebeat Ad honorem – Honorary Ph.d – Chair Professor of Blockchain atChina’s first Blockchain University in Nanchang at the Jiangxi AheadInstitute of Software and Technology. In 2018 he was invited to and attended University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School for BusinessAutomation 4.0 programme. Chevalier (Knight) – Ordre des Arts et desTechnologies at Crypto Chain University and on advisory board of Advisory Board Member of International Decentralized Association Of Cryptocurrency And Blockchain (IDABC) as well as Advisory Board Member at U.S. Blockchain Association. Over a half a decade experience judging and rewarding some 1000+innovation projects as an EU expert for the European Commission’s SMEInstrument programme as a startup assessor and as a startup judge forthe UK government’s Innovate UK division. Kastelein has spoken(keynotes & panels) on Blockchain technology in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Barcelona, Beijing, Brussels, Bucharest, Dubai, Eindhoven, Gdansk, Groningen, the Hague, Helsinki, London (5x), Manchester, Minsk, Nairobi, Nanchang, San Mateo, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Shanghai, Singapore (3x), Tel Aviv, Utrecht, Venice, Visakhapatnam, Zwolle and Zurich His network is global and extensive. He is a Canadian (Dutch/Irish/English/Métis) whose writing career has ranged from the Canadian Native Press (Arctic) to the Caribbean & Europe He’s written occasionally for Harvard Business Review, Wired, Venturebeat, The Guardian and Virgin.com and his work and ideas have been translated into Dutch, Greek, Polish, German and French. A journalist by trade, an entrepreneur and adventurer at heart,Kastelein’s professional career has ranged from political publishing toTV technology, boatbuilding to judging startups, skippering yachts tomarketing and more as he’s travelled for nearly 30 years as a Canadianexpatriate living around the world In his 20s, he sailed around the world on small yachts and wrote aseries of travel articles called, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Seas’travelling by hitching rides on yachts (1989) in major travel andyachting publications.  He currently lives in Groningen, Netherlands where he’s raising three teenage daughters with his wife and sailing partner, Wieke Beenen. Visit Website The post First Crypto Marathon held in Lithuania – Runners win Tokens appeared first on .