Special Commissioner Professor Mauro Masi as its first Chairman, and approved today the creation of a headquarters office in Paris, to be headed by experienced music copyright executive Chris van Houten.
Board members are the chief executives of the five founding societies.
Chief Executive Officer Eduardo Bautista. We are very pleased to announce that Chris van Houten, who brings more than 25 years of management experience in the music and copyright field, will head up our office in Paris. Van Houten brings FastTrack a widely regarded expertise in business process redesign. He served for six years as Managing Director of EMI Music Publishing's Benelux operation, and prior to that, as an executive with the Dutch record company Dureco. Both at EMI and Dureco, he designed and introduced new copyright and royalty systems.