The STIM organisation
STIM is a Swedish collective management organisation for music creators and publishers.
On the behalf of its members, STIM administers and licenses performing and mechanical rights to music and lyrics. Through its international network, STIM also manages the rights to the worldwide repertoire of music.
STIM is a non-profit organisation with more than 86.000 affiliated songwriters, composers, text authors and music publishers.
STIM was founded in 1923 and has since 2012 its headquarters in Stockholm.
Statutes
Democracy is important to STIM. Writers, composers and music publishers affiliated to STIM can become full voting members of the Society. This gives you the right to attend and vote at STIM's annual general meeting. Read more about the statutes.
CEO
Karsten Dyhrberg Nielsen has been the CEO of stim since 2014.
Other Top Management Positions
CFO – Jan-Christer Stoppel
COO – Mattias Wallman
General Counsel - Lisa Stålspets
Director Human Resources – Theres Annerstedt
Head of Members & Market – Peter Lindström
Head of PR & Communication – Eleonor Otterdahl
Partners and founding organisations
Board of Directors
STIM's board shall best serve the interests of its members. Therefore, it is composed of representatives active in the member associations FST – The Swedish Society of Composers, SKAP – The Swedish Society of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and Musikförläggarna – The Music Publishers, and partly by independent members who contribute in various ways to business and culture. In addition, there is a worker representative. The Chairman of the Board is independent.
| STIM Board Of Directors (elected for / year for re-election) |
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| Carina Brorman, Chairman (2021) Rights Category: Independent |
| Hans Fahlin, Director (2021) Linda Portnoff, Deputy (2021) Rights Category: Independent |
| Hannah Gullander, Director (2020) Annika Dellås, Deputy (2020) Rights Category: Independent |
| Dror Feiler, Director (2020) Marie Samuelsson, Deputy (2020) Rights Category: FST |
| Martin Jonsson Tibblin, Director (2021) Jenny Hettne, Deputy (2021) Rights Category: FST |
| Douglas Carr, Director (2020) Alexandra Nilsson, Deputy (2020) Rights Category: SKAP |
| Alfons Karabuda, Director (2021) Anders Wollbeck, Deputy (2021) Rights Category: SKAP |
| Eric Hasselquist, Director (2020) Kerstin Mangert Sturk, Deputy (2020) Rights Category: Musikförläggarna |
| Elisabet Widlund Fornelius, Director (2021) Anette Hökengren, Deputy (2021) Rights Category: Musikförläggarna |
| Susan Roberts, Director (worker representative) Eva Botmar, Director (worker representative) Viktor Sellgren, Deptuy (worker representative) Mikael Alenmark, Deputy (worker representative) |
| Election Committee |
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| Monica Ekmark, Chairman, independent |
| Fredrika Hörlin, independent |
| Thomas Lindahl, nominated by SKAP |
| Erik Peters, nominated by FST |
| Nutta Hultman, nominated by Musikförläggarna |
| Contact the Election Committee: valberedningen@stim.se |
| Accountants |
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| Håkan Reising (KPMG) |
| Hans Gefors |
| Ragnar Grippe, Deputy |
Organizations that STIM collaborates with:
- ICE is jointly owned with STIM's British and German counterparts PRS and GEMA.
- Svensk Musik is owned by STIM with a mission to document and inform about copyright-protected Swedish music.
- NCB is owned by STIM and its counterparts in Denmark, Finland and Norway.
- STIM's Council for the Promotion of Swedish Music is a committee working to provide the conditions for future creativity in the field of music.