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Danny Kastner is an American musician, composer, director, producer, and entrepreneur.
Kastner has founded four internet start-ups, including Music Interactive,[1] Scores International,[2] and POPstick.[3] At POPstick, Kastner led the company's online marketing strategies for large-scale offerings with Microsoft, IBM, Dell, among other technology firms. In 2004, Kastner launched POPstick Outburst and coined the term social network marketing as an approach towards brand marketing through social networks. He hired advertising executive, Steve Dworin, former Chairman/CEO of NW Ayer as the president of the initiative.[4]
Currently, Danny is CEO of FanRocket, an internet digital content production company he founded in 2005.[5]
Kastner appeared on the third season of NBC's The Apprentice.[6] After being "fired" by Donald Trump in episode 3, Kastner, who holds a master's degree in music composition from Boston University,[7] wrote songs about his experience on the show. These, along with weekly musical recaps of each episode, were played on radio stations across the country.[8] Kastner was re-hired by Donald Trump in an episode of Queer Eye that followed the Apprentice, in 2005, where Kastner organized a charity event for underprivileged children which won praise from Trump.[9]
As a composer, Kastner is a two-time BMI Composition Award winner,[10] as well as a two-time ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award Recipient.[11] Kastner composed music for Padmé, the fan film that won the George Lucas Selects Award in the 2008 Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge.[12] He plays jazz piano in clubs around Los Angeles as a member of the band the Jazz Punks.[13]
References
- ^ eMarketing Association bio
- ^ Scores International business listing
- ^ POPstick BusinessWeek listing
- ^ POPstick Tries 'Social Network Marketing'
- ^ PodcastDirectory interview bio
- ^ Reality TV World bio
- ^ The Apprentice Rules website
- ^ "Trump Tower Troubadour Danny Kastner to Release Recap Song for Episode Five of Hit Show The Apprentice This Friday"
- ^ Queer Eye TV Guide Listing - Danny Kastner
- ^ Daniel Kastner on BMI.COM
- ^ Daniel Kastner on ASCAP.COM
- ^ Danny Kastner on IMDb
- ^ Jazz Punks on MySpace
External links
Categories:- American musicians
- Living people
- Cleveland State University alumni
- Boston University alumni
- People from Boston, Massachusetts
- Participants in American reality television series
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