CIRPA NAMES NEW PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CIRPA Release The Canadian Independent Record Production Association (CIRPA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Duncan McKie as its new President and Executive Director. He will assume this position on Monday, June 4, 2007.
Duncan McKie arrives at CIRPA with a vast array of experience in policy issues surrounding the current Canadian music industry. As Vice-Chairman of Pollara, Canada’s foremost strategic public affairs and marketing research organization, Duncan has spent much of the last few years researching policy issues for the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). He has worked with CRIA on most of the largest issues confronting the Canadian music industry such as the decline in music sales, piracy, copyright reform, the review of terrestrial radio, digital music tariffs, and the impact of the purchase of media companies.
“With so many complex issues and challenges facing today’s Canadian music industry, we are extremely pleased to have someone with Duncan’s knowledge and experience in place to lead CIRPA,” stated Jim West, Chair of CIRPA. “We are confident that Duncan will provide CIRPA’s members with a strong and meaningful voice on all necessary issues.”
“I am looking forward to the opportunity of working with a national association with the history and importance of CIRPA,” added Duncan McKie. “With the music industry today in such flux, CIRPA more than ever, needs to engage itself directly in both policy and trade initiatives.”
Prior to working with Pollara, Duncan worked closely with the Canadian radio industry in his capacity as Senior Vice President of Client Services and Operations for BBM. While working with Pollara, Duncan attained much knowledge on the developing digital music industry as a founding Board Member of Puretracks, Canada’s largest digital music company. Duncan also currently sits on the Board of the National Sports Centre, Ontario and is Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Communications and Programming of the National Capital Commission, Ottawa.
CIRPA is the collective voice of the English language, Canadian-owned independent sector of the Canadian sound recording industry, with a mandate to secure and develop a strong and economically stable domestic music industry. CIRPA has more than 160 member companies from coast to coast in Canada, representing nearly every facet of the music business. |