Dan Krigstein appointed Chair of ThinkNewsBrands board

Consumer strategy and analytics leader Dan Krigstein to Chair ThinkNewsBrands 

Advocacy body for Australian news publishing media, ThinkNewsBrands, has today announced the appointment of Dan Krigstein as Chair of the Board, effective 1 July 2025.  

Krigstein, who has been a Director of the ThinkNewsBrands Board since February 2025, assumes the Chair from Tory Maguire, Managing Director at Nine Publishing, who had held the role since January 2024. Maguire will remain on the Board as a Director. 

Krigstein brings extensive media industry experience, along with commercial, strategy and intelligence expertise to the role. He currently serves as Director of The Growth Distillery and News Corp Australia’s The Growth Intelligence Centre, supporting publishers, brands, and industries to develop growth strategies through customer-led thinking and product innovation. 

Prior to his current role, Krigstein held local and global positions at Qantas, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount, where he built a reputation as a strategic, multidisciplinary thinker and an expert in building transformative commercial and consumer insights capabilities within organisations. 

Krigstein said he was thrilled to be appointed Chair of ThinkNewsBrands and looked forward to working with the team to drive even greater impact. 

CEO of ThinkNewsBrands, Vanessa Lyons, welcomed Krigstein’s appointment and thanked Maguire for her time as Chair, where she was pivotal in the delivery of simplified and consistent digital measurement data for the news publishing industry.  

“At a time when Australia’s leading publishers have become world-class insight and targeting platforms, Dan’s leadership and commercial and consumer intelligence expertise make him the ideal person to help guide ThinkNewsBrands through its next phase of impact. I look forward to working with Dan and the rest of the ThinkNewsBrands Board to deliver positive results for the entire news industry and the brands and agencies that work with us.  

“I also want to thank Tory Macguire for her leadership and contributions during her tenure as Chair. Her valuable guidance and involvement have strengthened and shaped our organisation and helped us to deliver significant initiatives like the creation of a common digital measurement, that advertisers, agencies and publishers could rely on, irrespective of which system they subscribe to. We’re delighted that Tory will continue to bring her insight and experience to the Board in her ongoing role as a director,” Lyons said.  

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