Board and Staff

DAISY Board Members and Staff Members

Board of Directors

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.

Chairman of the Board Maarten Verboom	Dedicon Postbus 24, 5360 AA GRAVE The Netherlands
Treasurer Michael Katzmann	Chief, Materials Development Division NLS/BPD The Library of Congress 1291 Taylor Street, NW Washington, DC 20011 USA
Diane Bergeron	CNIB 1929 Bayview Ave. Toronto Ontario Canada M4G 3E8
Fernando Pinto Da Silva	Representing DAISY France, Fédération des Aveugles et Amblyopes de France, 6 rue Gager Gabillot – 75015 Paris France
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
Tove Dannestam	Myndigheten för tillgängliga medier(MTM) Swedish Agency for Accessible Media Representing the Swedish DAISY Consortium Box 5513 SE-121 17 Johanneshov Sweden
Ki-Ae Jeong	National Library for the Disabled (NLD) 201 BanPoDaero, SeoCho-Gu, Seoul, 137-702 Republic of Korea
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kahlisch	German Centre for Accessible Reading – Deutsches Zentrum für barrierefreies Lesen (dzb lesen) Representing Association for Blind, Vision Impaired and Print Disabled People – MEDIBUS Gustav-Adolf-Straße 7 D-04105 Leipzig Germany
Hiroshi Kawamura	Japan DAISY Consortium c/o Assistive Technology Development Organization (ATDO) 1-1-61-101, Wakaba-cho Chofu-shi Tokyo 182-0003 Japan
Flavia Kippele	SBS Schweizerische Bibliothek für Blinde, Seh- und Lesebehinderte (SBS Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled) Representing the Swiss DAISY Group Grubenstrasse 12 CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
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
Scott LaBarre	National Federation of the Blind 200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place Baltimore, MD 21230 USA
Geraldine Lewis	Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Te Tuapapa o te Hunga Kapo o Aotearoa Awhina House 4 Maunsell Road Parnell, Auckland 1031
Alison Long	Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) 105 Judd Street London, WC1H 9NE United Kingdom
Brad Turner	Benetech/Bookshare 480 S. California Ave. Suite 201 Palo Alto, CA 94306-1609 USA
Michael Wright	Director General Nota Teglvaerksgade 37 DK-2100 Copenhagen Denmark
Minna von Zansen	Celia, representing the Finnish DAISY Consortium Marjaniementie 74, Helsinki, P.O.Box 20, FIN-00030 IIRIS, Finland

DAISY Team

Chief Executive Officer Richard Orme	Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
Chief Innovations Officer George Kerscher	Missoula, Montana, USA
Chief Operating Officer—Strategy & Operations Avneesh Singh	New Delhi, India
Software Developer Romain Deltour	Nancy, France
Software and Standards Development Marisa DeMeglio	Los Angeles, California, USA
Editor—Digital Publishing Standards and Processes Matt Garrish	Nova Scotia, Canada
Digital Accessibility Consultant Dave Gunn	Birmingham, United Kingdom
Communications Sarah Hilderley	English national, based in Canada
Capacity Building Focal Point, Nairobi, Kenya Martin Kieti	Nairobi, Kenya
Director Developing Countries Program Dipendra Manocha	New Delhi, India
Usability and Testing Engineer Rachana Singh	New Delhi, India
Software Developer Rohit Tandon	New Delhi, India
Accessibility Specialist Prashant Ranjan Verma	New Delhi, India
Business Administrator Rachael Watts	Warwick, United Kingdom
Software Architect and Programmer Daniel Weck	French national, based in England