Vanessa Morley joined Nine as Director of People and Culture in May 2018.
Immediately before joining Nine, she was the Group Head of Talent for Coca-Cola Amatil, responsible for development of the talent, leadership and inclusion strategy across the Amatil business, for Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia.
Vanessa is a highly experienced HR leader, working across all aspects of HR strategy in senior roles with leading brands such as Qantas, Samsung and Insurance Australia Group. Her experience across multiple industries puts her in a unique position to develop innovative HR strategy for Nine.
Vanessa holds a Master of Labour Law and Relations from the University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Business from the University of Newcastle.
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.
Ms Rosen served on the Fairfax Board from March 2017, before moving on to the Nine Board when Nine and Fairfax merged in December 2018. Ms Rosen is also a member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee and the Nominations Committee.
Ms Rosen lives in Los Angeles and has over three decades of strategy, operating, and advisory 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, and early stage start-ups such as Hulu and Fandango.
Ms Rosen currently serves on listed boards in Australia and the United States, including Bank of Queensland Limited, Fabletics and Centurion Acquisition Corp, and she advises early to growth stage companies. Prior, she served on the board of Pandora Media and FazeClan and Ascendent Digital Acquisition Corp, and was the President of Tribune Interactive and concurrently the President of the Los Angeles Times. Ms Rosen has also served as a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group. Earlier in her career, Ms Rosen served as 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 with McKinsey & Company, and she holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Other listed company directorships: Bank of Queensland Ltd (since March 2021).
Mr Lancaster joined the Board on 1 April 2021 as a Non-Executive Director and is a member of the Nominations Committee. Mr Lancaster is CEO of the WIN Corporation, the broadcaster of Nine’s free to air television content in regional Australia, and Birketu Pty Ltd, Nine Entertainment Co’s largest individual shareholder (so is not an independent director).
After more than 31 years working in the media sector, Mr Lancaster 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.
Mr Lancaster is currently a Director of Free TV Australia, Chair of the Illawarra Community Foundation and Chair of St George Illawarra Dragons.
Mr Lancaster 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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