Board and Staff

DAISY Consortium Board

The Board of the DAISY Consortium is the executive body of the organization.

It transacts the business of the DAISY Consortium in accordance with the tasks outlined in the Articles of Association and the resolutions of the General Meeting.

Board of Directors

President

Hiroshi Kawamura

c/o Assistive Technology Development Organization (ATDO)
1-1-61-101, Wakaba-cho
Chofu-shi
Tokyo 182-0003
Japan
Phone: +81-3-5384-7207
Fax: +81-3-5384-7207

Treasurer

Arne Kyrkjebø

Norsk lyd- og blindeskriftbibliotek
(Norwegian Library of Talking Books and Braille)
Representing the Norwegian DAISY Consortium
Observatoriegaten 1B
Box 2764 Solli
0204 Oslo
Norway
Phone: + 47 47 22 06 88 16

Board Members

Betsy Beaumon

Benetech/Bookshare
480 S. California Ave.
Suite 201
Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609
USA
Phone: +1 650-644-3458

Peter Beran

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, RFB&D
20 Roszel Road, Princeton
New Jersey 08540
USA
Phone: +1 609-520-8099
Fax: +1 609 520 7990

Elke Dittmer

Stiftung Centralbibliothek fur Blinde Norddeutsche Blindenhorbucherei e. V.
Representing Media Association for Blind and Vision Impaired People - MediBuS
Herbert-Weichmann-Str. 44-46
D-22085 Hamburg
Germany
Phone: +49 40 227 2860
Fax: +49 40 227 286 20

Trish Egan

Vision Australia
454 Glenferrie Road
KOOYONG Vic 3144
Australia
Phone: +612 9334 3316

Kjell Hansson

Talboks- och punktskriftsbiblioteket, TPB
(The Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille)
Box 5513 SE-121 17 Johanneshov
Sweden
Phone: +46(0)858002700
Fax: +46(0)858002770

Neil Jarvis

Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind
Representing ANZAIG
Te Tuapapa o te Hunga Kapo o Aotearoa
121 Adelaide Road, Newtown
P O Box 27177, Wellington
New Zealand
Phone: +64-4-380-2154
Fax: +64-4-389-5254

Michael Katzmann

Chief, Materials Development Division
NLS/BPH
The Library of Congress
1291 Taylor Street, NW
Washington, DC 20011
USA
Phone: +1 202 707-0701

Stephen King

Royal National Institute of Blind People, RNIB
Bakewell Road
Orton Southgate
Peterborough PE2 6XU
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 1733 370777
Fax: +44 1733 391865

Flavia Kippele

Schweizerische Bibliothek für Blinde und Sehbehinderte,
(Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired)
Representing the Swiss DAISY Consortium
Grubenstrasse 12
CH-8045 Zürich
Switzerland
Phone: +41 43 333 32 32
Fax: +41 43 333 32 33

Young Sook Lee

Korean DAISY Consortium
c/o The National Library Support Center for the Disabled
The National Library of Korea
san 60-1 Banpo-4dong
Seocho-gu Seoul 137-702
Republic of Korea
Phone: +82-2-3483-8856
Fax: +82-2-590-0656

Markku Leino

Celia Library,
Marjaniementie 74, Helsinki,
P.O.Box 20,
FIN-00030 IIRIS, Finland
Phone: +358 9 22952382
Fax: +358 9 2295 2295

Francisco Martínez Calvo

Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles, O.N.C.E
Spanish National Organization of the Blind
Calle Prado, 24-2a planta
ES-28014 Madrid
Spain
Phone: +34 91 589 4862
Fax: +34 91 429 3118

Margaret McGrory

CNIB Library
1929 Bayview Ave.
Toronto
Ontario
Canada M4G 3E8
Phone: +1 416 480 7433
Fax: 1 416 480 7700

To be appointed

Fundação Dorina Nowill para Cegos
Rua Diogo de Faria, 558
Vila Clementino
São Paulo – SP – 04037-001
Brazil
Representing:
DAISY Latino Group - DLG
Phone: +55-11-50870999
Fax: +55-11-50870977

Maarten Verboom

Dedicon
Postbus 24,
5360 AA GRAVE
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 486 486480
Fax: +31 486 476535

Michael Wright

Director General
Nota
Teglvaerksgade 37
DK-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark
Phone: +45 39 13 46 46
Fax: +45 39 13 46 01

DAISY Team

Secretary General,
seconded for 75% of his time from Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic

George Kerscher

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, RFB&D
20 Roszel Road, Princeton
New Jersey 08540
USA
Phone: 406 549 46 87
Fax: 1 609 520 79 90

Chief Financial and Development Officer

Bernhard Heinser

c/o Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Grubenstrasse 12
CH – 8045 Zürich
Phone: +41 (0)43 333 32 50
Fax: +41 (0)43 333 32 33

Chief Technology Officer,
seconded for 90% of his time from the Swedish Library of Talking-Books and Braille

Markus Gylling

Talboks- och punktskriftsbiblioteket, TPB
(The Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille)

Palmfeltsvägen 5 A
SE-121 17 Johanneshov
Sweden
Phone: 46 8 5800 2700
Fax: 46 8 5800 2770