ARN has announced two senior leadership appointments, strengthening its strategic and commercial foundations as it continues its evolution into an entertainment business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The appointments of Scott Lyons <\/strong>as Director of Strategy<\/strong> and Janine Chambers <\/strong>as Head of Commercial Finance<\/strong> reflect ARN\u2019s focus on long-term value creation, disciplined decision-making and sustainable growth across audio, digital and live entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scott Lyons, reporting to Chief Financial Officer Alexis Poole, will lead ARN\u2019s enterprise-wide strategy agenda, partnering with the Executive Leadership Team to accelerate strategic execution and support ARN\u2019s evolution into Australia\u2019s leading digitally driven entertainment business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Janine Chambers has been appointed Head of Commercial Finance, overseeing end-to-end commercial finance partnering across Sales, Marketing and Content. She will strengthen forecast discipline, margin management, governance and investment decision-making, supporting ARN\u2019s focus on profitable digital growth and operational efficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ARN Chief Financial Officer Alexis Poole<\/strong> said: \u201cAs ARN continues its evolution into a scaled entertainment business, strengthening our strategy and commercial foundations is critical. These appointments reinforce how we make decisions, prioritise investment and build sustainable, long-term value across the organisation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lyons joins ARN from Foxtel Group, where he held senior strategy and commercial roles across Kayo Sports, BINGE and Hubbl, with responsibility spanning revenue growth, pricing, performance and long\u2011term value creation. He brings deep experience in analytics, market intelligence and growth strategy across major consumer and digital businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Scott Lyons said: \u201cI\u2019m excited to join ARN at such an important point in its evolution. The business has a powerful combination of leading content, audience scale and growing digital capability, and I\u2019m looking forward to helping drive the next phase of strategic growth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chambers brings more than 20 years\u2019 experience across media and publishing in Australia and the UK. She joins ARN from IPG Mediabrands, where she was most recently Deputy Chief Financial Officer, and has previously held senior finance leadership roles at News Corp Australia, working closely with executive teams on transformation, capital investment and operating model change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Janine Chambers said: \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be joining ARN at such an exciting time. The shift from radio network to entertainment company is moving at pace and I\u2019m looking forward to supporting Alexis and the team to make the most of the opportunity ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lyons and Chambers have both commenced their roles with ARN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ARN has announced two senior leadership appointments, strengthening its strategic and commercial foundations as it continues its evolution into an entertainment business. The appointments of Scott Lyons as Director of Strategy and Janine Chambers as Head of Commercial Finance reflect ARN\u2019s focus on long-term value creation, disciplined decision-making and sustainable growth across audio, digital and live entertainment. Scott Lyons, reporting to Chief Financial … Continue reading “ARN Strengthens Strategic and Commercial Capability with Two Senior Appointments”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}