SACEM renews its Board of Directors against the backdrop of governance reform
22 June 2017 - Press releaseSACEM’s members given an opportunity to elect a Supervisory Board for the first time
The General Meeting of SACEM (The Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music), held on Tuesday 20 June, has elected its new Board of Directors for one year, as well as the six members of the new Supervisory Board.
SACEM’s Board of Directors are elected by their peers – authors, composers and publishers – to serve a three-year term (two years for the writers-directors) Each year the members of SACEM are asked to renew the mandate of administrators. The President is appointed by the new Board of Directors to serve a one year term that can be renewed.
For the first time, the creators and publishers, who are members of SACEM were invited to elect their representatives for the Supervisory Board, in order to comply with the provisions of the Collective Right Management Directive.
The Supervisory Board is composed by two authors, two composers and two publishers; it is also elected by the General Assembly for three years, renewable equally and by category.
Board of Directors (new members elected in bold):
President: Jean-Claude Petit, composer
Vice-President: Jean-Marie Moreau, author
Vice-President: Nicolas Galibert, publisher
Vice-President: Wally Badarou, composer
Treasurer: Patrick Lemaitre, composer
Assistant Treasurer: Thierry Perrier, publisher
General Secretary: Dominique Pankratoff, composer
Assistant General Secretary: Serge Perathoner, composer
Administrators (in bold): Jean-Philippe Allard, publisher/ Gilles Amado, author-director/ Elisabeth Anaïs, author/ Alain Chamfort, composer/ Yves Duteil, author/ Jean Fauque, author / Rémy Grumbach, author-director/ Christine Lidon, author/ Bruno Lion, publisher/ Caroline Molko, publisher / Thierry Perrier, publisher/ Jean-Claude Petit, composer/ Jean-Marie Salhani, publisher/ Frédéric Zeitoun, author.
Supervisory Board:
President of the Supervisory Board: Sylvain Lebel
Members elected to the Supervisory Board include: Marc Chantereau, composer/ Arlette Kotchounian, author / Pierre Lemoine, publisher/ Valérie Seiller-Billaud, publisher/ Béatrice Thiret, composer.
SACEM’s Supervisory Board is responsible for supervising the activities of the Board of Directors and the Director General, and is also responsible for monitoring the SACEM accounts.
The new system to enable SACEM’s members to elect the constituents of the supervisory board was introduced as part of the changes to bring SACEM into line with the Collective Right Management Directive – just three months after the directive was transposed into French law.
SACEM was the first collective management organisation in France to comply with the European regulation.
Submit news or a press release
Want to add your news or press release? Email Paul or Kevin
Two week FREE trial