9’s Director of Gross sales – Whole Tv, Richard Hunwick has resigned after 14 years with the enterprise.
“It’s been an incredible journey at 9, and it’s been a privilege to steer the perfect gross sales workforce within the nation to some unimaginable success, as we navigated a interval of unheralded transformation from a stand alone TV enterprise, to a digital first, multi-platform, content material firm,” he mentioned.
“Over the past six months, I’ve been eager about all we’ve achieved, my very own future and what alternatives lie forward. While it was a troublesome resolution to stroll away from a enterprise that’s primed for development in an Olympic yr, it’s additionally essentially the most thrilling time I can keep in mind within the media business.”
Hunwick (pictured) will end at 9 on the finish of September.
9’s Chief Gross sales Officer Michael Stephenson mentioned: “Over the previous 25 years, I’ve had the pleasure of working with one among my finest associates. Not many individuals get to try this. Wealthy has a ardour that’s infectious, he’s an unimaginable chief of individuals, and he cares greater than anybody I do know.”
Nikki Rooke, presently Director of Gross sales – Sydney, is promoted to Director of Gross sales – Whole Tv from July 1. She joined 9 two years in the past.
Michael Stephenson mentioned: “Nikki is the final word skilled. She is one among our business’s most senior business leaders and her observe file speaks for itself. She is enthusiastic about our individuals and she or he has an in-depth understanding of what entrepreneurs want. There merely isn’t a extra good or extra certified particular person to steer our Whole TV workforce than Nikki Rooke”.
“Nikki joins Jo Clasby, Ash Earnshaw, Nick Younger, Lisa Day and Warwick Sharp alongside Andrea Salmon, Bec Lawrie, Sean O’Brien, Clive Bingwa, Tim Rose and Matt Granger in our management workforce. The proper workforce to assist our shoppers leverage the facility of 9 in our Olympic and Paralympic yr.”
Nikki Rooke mentioned: “I’m thrilled to be main 9’s Whole TV workforce and fill the very massive sneakers left behind by Richard Hunwick. I can’t wait to work with all our advertisers who perceive and embrace the facility of tv and the sustainable, worthwhile returns it delivers to their companies each within the brief and long run.
“I’m additionally very excited to be working with such a proficient gross sales workforce each market dealing with and people behind the scenes who work tirelessly on daily basis to make sure our shoppers have the perfect expertise doable.
“It’s such a good time to be entering into this position as we countdown to Paris 2024, which can ship to advertisers of all sizes a viewing expertise by no means seen earlier than throughout FTA tv and BVOD with unprecedented scale and addressability. That is solely the start, with a lot extra content material, extra new product innovation and extra new information alternatives to return. I can’t wait to get began.”
Her substitute as Director of Gross sales – Sydney will probably be introduced within the coming days.
