Rachel Launders joined Nine in 2015 as General Counsel and Company Secretary.
She has worked with the Nine group for over 10 years, having been a key external legal adviser as a partner at Gilbert + Tobin. Rachel has played a central role in many strategic and defining transactions for the Nine group, including its IPO and the acquisition of the Perth and Adelaide Nine stations, affiliate arrangements and major sports rights.
Rachel holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) Degree from the University of Sydney and a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment from the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. She is a fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Michael Healy, appointed Director of Television for Nine in December 2010, has over 30 years of media experience with the network. He is responsible for all aspects of content on Nine, on 9Go!, 9Gem and 9Life.
Michael started out with Channel Nine Perth in 1983 and relocated to Channel Nine Sydney in 1989. His previous roles include eight years as Director of Programming and 10 years as Director of Presentation and Promotions.
Ms Rosen served on the Fairfax Board from March 2017 and became a director of Nine when the companies merged in December 2018. In September 2024, she was also appointed to the Domain Board, of which Nine holds a 60% stake. Ms Rosen lives in Los Angeles and has over three decades of strategy, operating and board experience at the intersection of media, technology and e-commerce. She has built and led businesses for iconic global brands such as Yahoo, Fox and Disney, as well as early-stage companies such as Hulu and Fandango.
Ms Rosen currently serves on listed boards in Australia and in the United States, including the Bank of Queensland, Fabletics and Centurion Acquisition Corp, and she advises early to growth stage companies. Prior, she served on the boards of Pandora Media, FaZe Clan and Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp and was the President of Tribune Interactive and concurrently the President of the Los Angeles Times. Ms Rosen was also a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group.
Earlier in her career, Ms Rosen was the Senior Vice President of Global Media & Commerce for Yahoo, where she led Yahoo’s media and e-commerce division worldwide. She was also a partner with Fuse Capital, a consumer Internet-focused venture capital firm and was an executive with Fox Interactive Media, Fandango, and The Walt Disney Company. The foundation of Ms Rosen’s career was built at McKinsey & Company, and she holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Samantha Lewis joined the Board in March 2017 as an independent, Non-Executive Director and is a member of the Audit & Risk Management Committee and the People & Remuneration Committee.
Ms Lewis is a chartered accountant, with extensive experience in accounting, finance, auditing, risk management, corporate governance, capital markets and due diligence. Ms Lewis has been a non-executive director since 2014, and in addition to Nine Entertainment, serves on the Board of ASX-listed CSL Limited. She is also a non-executive director of Australia Pacific Airports Corporation Limited (APAC).
Prior to becoming a non-executive director, Ms Lewis spent 20 years at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu including 14 years as a Partner. In that role, she led the audit of a number of major Australian listed companies, in the retail/fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and industrial sectors. During her time at Deloitte, Ms Lewis also provided accounting advice and transactional advisory services, including due diligence, IPOs and debt/equity raisings.
Andrew Lancaster is CEO of Birketu Pty Ltd, Nine Entertainment Co’s largest individual shareholder, and WIN Corporation, the broadcaster of Nine’s free to air content in Regional Australia.
After more than 31 years working in the media sector, Andrew has extensive experience in both metropolitan, and regional television and radio. He has a broad knowledge of strategic, structural, operational, financial and resource management as well as a proven history of driving strong revenue growth and organizational change across all areas of these businesses.
He is currently a Director of Free TV Australia, Chair of the Illawarra Community Foundation, and Chair of NRL team St George Illawarra Dragons.
Andrew holds a Master of Commerce Human Resource Management and a Bachelor of Economics and Management, both from the University of Wollongong.
Prior to the merger of Nine and Fairfax, Mr Falloon was chairman of the Fairfax Board before taking up the role of deputy chairman of Nine in December 2018. He is also chairman of Domain Holdings Australia. Mr Falloon has had 30 years’ experience in the media industry, 19 years working for the Packer-owned media interests from 1982 until 2001.
Mr Falloon served as CEO of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL) from 1998 to 2001 and before that as Chief Executive Officer of PBL Enterprises and Group Financial Director of PBL. The PBL experiences provided a strong background in the television, pay TV, magazine, radio and digital industries.
From 2002, Mr Falloon spent nine years as Executive Chairman and CEO of Ten Network Holdings. He holds a Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) from Waikato University in New Zealand.
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