Nine shakes up management, with Chris Janz and Alexi Baker promoted
Nine’s CEO Hugh Marks has made some changes to his executive team, which he says will enable the company to move to the next stage of growth and performance.
Chris Janz, who came across during the acquisition of Fairfax and took on the role of managing director of publishing, will now become chief digital and publishing officer. Alexi Baker, previously director of strategy and corporate development, will be managing director of commercial.
Janz is taking on additional responsibilities
Nine previously had a chief digital officer, Alex Parsons, who left the company as part of a restructure in 2017. Parsons then spent time as CEO of Adcorp, before returning to Nine to help it sell off its events business. He stayed with Nine after the sale and became CEO of Car Advice.
“Mumbrella understand other staff are not part of the restructure.”
There was at least one redundancy at a senior technology level with these ‘promotions’.
Plus two other senior people who went pre-Xmas
to Chris. He’s a true class act and will drive much needed and positive change across 9Tech.
In reality, Chris now runs Nine except the ailing TV business. BVOD (the future of TV) tick, what was Fairfax (SMH, Age, AFR, Stuff) tick, digital (nine.com.au, PTV, Caradvice) tick, and now technology and data (2/3 of Hugh Marks’ “content, data and technology” company) tick. It’s pretty clear what will be announced next …
But at the same time he’s still an incredibly decent and humble guy who has done amazing things for the newspapers I love. There hasn’t been an executive like him that we in the newsroom respect. Congratulations Janz!