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

Stephen King

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

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

Chief Financial 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

Betsy Beaumon

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

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

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

Andrew Furlong

Vision Australia
454 Glenferrie Road
Kooyong, Vic, 3144
Australia
Phone: +61 3 9864 9637

James Gashel

National Federation of the Blind
200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place
Baltimore, MD 21230
USA
Phone: +1 410-659-9314
Fax: +1 410-685-5653

Stéphane Hagues

Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles
56, boulevard des Invalides
75007 Paris
France
Representing DAISY France
Phone: +33 1 44 49 37 62

Jim Halliday

Learning Ally
20 Roszel Road
Princeton
New Jersey 08540
USA
Phone: +1 609-243-5875

Neil Jarvis

Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind
Te Tuapapa o te Hunga Kapo o Aotearoa
Awhina House
4 Maunsell Road
Parnell, Auckland 1031
Phone: +64 9 355 6998
Fax: +64 9 366 009

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

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

Young-il Kim

Director General
The National Library for Individuals with Disabilities (NLID)
201 BanPoDaero, SeoCho-Gu, Seoul, 137-702
Republic of Korea
Phone: +82-2-590-0760
Fax: +82-2-590-0656

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

Jesper Klein

Myndigheten för tillgängliga medier(MTM)
Swedish Agency for Accessible Media
Representing the Swedish DAISY Consortium
Box 5513 SE-121 17 Johanneshov
Sweden
Phone: +46(0)858002700
Fax: +46(0)858002770

Markku Leino

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

Margaret McGrory

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

Pedro Milliet

Fundação Dorina Nowill para Cegos
(Dorina Nowill Foundation)
Rua Diogo de Faria, 558
Vila Clementino
São Paulo – SP – 04037-001
Brazil
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 Learning Ally

George Kerscher

Learning Ally
20 Roszel Road, Princeton
New Jersey 08540
USA
Phone: 406 549 46 87
Fax: 1 609 520 79 90

Chief Technology Officer, seconded for 90% of his time from the Swedish Agency for Accessible Media

Markus Gylling

Myndigheten för tillgängliga medier (MTM)
(Swedish Agency for Accessible Media)

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

Chief Financial 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

Director of Communications

Varju Luceno

Missoula, Montana, USA

Independent Consultant

Javier Asonsio Cubero

United Kingdom

Software Developer

Romain Deltour

Nancy, France

Software and Standards Development

Marisa DeMeglio

USA

Information Systems Engineer

Kathy Kahl

USA

Newsletter Editor and Board Assistant

Lynn Leith

196 Fallingbrook Dr.
Ancaster
Ontario
Canada L9G 1E6
Phone: 1 905 304 9398

Developing Countries Coordinator

Dipendra Manocha

486 Double Storey
New Rajinder Nagar
New Delhi 110060
India
Phone: +91 11 42411015

Country Manager, Technical Development

Avneesh Singh

New Delhi, India

Software Developer and Tester

Rachana Singh

Delhi, India

Software Developer

Rohit Tandon

New Delhi, India

Consultant - Technical Support and Software Testing

Prashant Verma

SF-1, 2A/54
Vaishali, Ghaziabad, U.P.
Pin 201010
India
Phone: +91 9811686966

Software Architect and Programmer

Daniel Weck

French nationality, based in England (United Kingdom)