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CEPIC announces the election of 2009-11 Board of Directors
Members of the CEPIC Executive Committee for 2009 - 2011 were elected at CEPIC’s General Annual Meeting on June 3rd, which was held during the 2009 CEPIC Congress in Dresden. The CEPIC Committee consists of 7 Members, and the election brought five new faces on board. Newly elected officers include Christina Vaughan as President, Klaus Plaumann as Vice President and Dominique Delouis as Treasurer.
The new President is Christina Vaughan (UK), CEO of Image Source and BAPLA Member. During her career, Christina has worked in several sectors of the stock photography industry, in senior creative and business development roles in the United States, Germany and France as well as in the UK. She has extensive experience of both rights managed and royalty free commercial licensing.
Christina Vaughan succeeds Alan Smith, CEPIC President between 1997 and 2009.
The new Vice President, Klaus Plaumann (Germany), is the Marketing Director at Picture Press and a Board Member of BVPA since 2003. As well as his extensive experience in international sales and photo editing for the picture industry, Klaus also brings his experience as a journalist and writer.
The new Treasurer, Dominique Delouis, is the Owner of Museum Images and Secretary of SNAPIG (France). Dominique has worked for 18 years in the development of information technology and multimedia, he is also a UNESCO expert and an evaluator at the European Commission.
The CEPIC Committee includes four further Board Members.
Paul Brown, Managing Director of Mary Evans Picture Library and current Chairman of BAPLA (UK), and Barbro Kaufmann, Owner and Managing Director of Pix Offer in Sweden and President of SBF (Sweden), were both carried forward for a new term of two years.
New appointees to the CEPIC Committee include Lola Mate (Spain, AEAPAF), President and Owner of QuickImages Stock S.L based in Madrid, and Els van Rest (Netherlands, NL Images), International Sales Manager at ANP Photo and Secretary and Treasurer of NL Images.
All appointees bring extensive experience in the image industry as well as enthusiasm to their newly elected positions.
“It is important that we all acknowledge and appreciate the hard work, commitment and time that the former CEPIC Board and Officers have devoted to CEPIC these past few years and their contribution to shaping CEPIC as it is today, focused around a successful Annual Congress” says Christina Vaughan. “That said, we must all take time to look into the future at a time of high velocity change in our industry. To navigate through potentially challenging times, CEPIC requires strong leadership and vision. There must be positive change and transparency and we need to listen to the voices of all our membership, small or large, from Southern or Northern Europe, from East to West.”
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