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About NCB
NCB's structure
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General Assembly
The General Assembly is the highest authority in all NCB matters. It consists of KODA, STEF, STIM, TEOSTO and TONO, who each appoint a delegation consisting of one to five persons.
NCB's Board of Directors
NCB's Board of Directors consists of 13 members of which three are appointed by each of the societies KODA, STIM, TEOSTO and TONO. In addition to this STEF appoints one member. The three members, who KODA, STIM, TEOSTO and TONO each appoint, are an author, a publisher and one person from the society's administration, typically the Managing Director. STEF decides themselves who they wish to appoint to the Board of Directors. NCB's Board consists of:
Members of NCB's Board:
- Niels Bak, Managing Director, appointed by KODA
- Pia Raug, Composer, appointed by KODA
- Tine Birger Christensen, Music Publisher, appointed by KODA
- Eiríkur Tómasson (vice-chairman), Managing Director, appointed by STEF
- Alfons Karabuda, Composer, appointed by STIM
- Kenth Muldin, Managing Director, appointed by STIM
- Lars Karlsson, Music Publisher, appointed by STIM
- Katri Sipilä, Managing Director, appointed by TEOSTO
- Georg Nummelin, Lyricist, appointed by TEOSTO
- Tom Frisk, Music Publisher, appointed by TEOSTO
- Leif A. Dramstad, Music Publisher, appointed by TONO
- Bendik Hofseth, Composer, appointed by TONO
- Cato Strøm, Managing Director (chairman), appointed by TONO
- Observer to the Board of Directors: Svend Heesche-Andersen
Observers from the Baltic countries:
- Inese Paklone, Managing Director - AKKA/LAA
- Kalev Rattus, Managing Director - EAÜ
- Edmundas Vaitekunas, Managing Director - LATGA-A
NCB's Auditor and Audit Committee
NCB's auditors are elected at the General Assembly and at least one of the auditors shall be a Danish chartered auditor, and as regards the election of supplementary auditors, the societies KODA, STIM, TEOSTO og TONO are in a position to nominate one auditor each.
Audit Committee:- Jacob Morild, Lyricist
- Asbjørn Schaathun, Composer
- Kettil Skarby, Music Publisher
- Pekka Sipilä, Executive Director
- Poul Christensen, State-authorised Public Accountant, Revisionsfirmaet Ernst & Young A/S
NCB's Management
- Karsten Dyhrberg Nielsen, Managing Director
- Christian Schmidt Klyhn, Deputy Managing Director
