Today INMA members elected 14 executives to terms on the organisation’s governing Board of Directors.  

Officers elected at Tuesday’s virtual annual business meeting were: 

• President: Siv Juvik Tveitnes, CEO, Schibsted, Norway. 

• First vice president: Sinead Boucher, owner, Stuff, New Zealand.

• Immediate past president: Gert Ysebaert, CEO, Mediahuis, Belgium.

Elected to new Board terms were: 

• Carsten Erdmann, editor-in-chief, new business and editorial tech, Funke Media, Germany. 

• Rainer Esser, executive advisor, Holtzbrinck, and supervisory board, Die Zeit, Germany.

• Frederic Kachar, CEO, Editora Globo and Sistema Globo de Rádio, Brazil.

• Ritu Kapur, managing director, The Quint, India. 

• Dan Krockmalnic, COO and general counsel, Boston Globe Media, United States.  

• Pilar Gil, CEO and vice chairwoman, Prisa Media, Spain.

• Frank Mahlberg, COO, Bild Group, Axel Springer, Germany.

• Maria Sakki, lead data insights analyst, Financial Times, United Kingdom, and chair, INMA Young Professionals Initiative.  

• Patrick Tornabene, chief consumer revenue and strategy officer, Newsday Media Group, United States, and president, INMA North America Division.

• Maribel Perez Wadsworth, president and CEO, Knight Foundation United States.  

Meanwhile, members were updated that Ana Maria Reyes, director of digital strategy IA and data at Grupo OPSA in Honduras, succeeded Pablo Deluca, director of institutional relations at Infobae in Argentina, as INMA Latin America Division president earlier this year. 

The INMA Board of Directors is the governing body of INMA, comprising senior executives from leading news media companies across INMA’s global membership. The Board sets strategic direction for the association, approves major initiatives and partnerships, oversees financial and membership policy, and guides INMA’s positioning on the industry-wide issues shaping the future of news media — from AI and platform relationships to business model innovation and editorial sustainability.

Board terms take effect June 1 and run one to three years in duration. 

Officer terms are typically for two years, then are rotated from first vice president to president to immediate past president. After serving the past two years as INMA president, Ysebaert becomes immediate past president for the next two years. Tveitnes will serve as president through May 31, 2028, and Boucher will serve as president in 2028-2030.  

Stepping down from the INMA Board are: 

• Marcelo Benez, chief commercial officer, Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil. 

• Mark Campbell, chief marketing officer, Hearst Newspapers, United States, and president, INMA North America Division.

• Anna-Katharina Kölbl, head of business development, Funke Media, Germany, and chair, INMA Young Professionals Initiative. 

• Mapula Nkosi, managing editor, Media24/CityPress, South Africa.  

• Catherine So, CEO, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong.

About the new officers:

Siv Juvik Tveitnes began her career as a managing consultant at Bekk Consulting before moving into media in 2006, holding a series of roles at Bergens Tidende including business developer, finance and staff director, and later serving as project director at Media Norge.

From 2014 to 2015, she was managing director of both Bergens Tidende and Stavanger Aftenblad, and from 2015 to 2019 served as a director in the Schibsted media division before being appointed CEO of Schibsted News Media — a role she held from 2019 to 2024, with oversight of Verdens Gang, Aftenposten, Aftonbladet, and Svenska Dagbladet.

Following the 2024 restructuring that split Schibsted into separate entities, she became CEO of the newly formed Schibsted Media, positioning the company as a Nordic-focused media business distinct from its marketplaces operations. She has also chaired the boards of Aftonbladet and Svenska Dagbladet, and holds a master’s in business administration from the University of Bath alongside her social sciences degree from the University of Bergen.

Across nearly two decades at Schibsted, she has emerged as one of the most influential publishing executives in the Nordics, steering the region's most prominent news brands through digital subscription growth, AI integration, and the structural separation that redefined Schibsted itself. 

Sinead Boucher began her career in journalism in 1993 as a junior reporter for The Press in New Zealand before gaining international experience in London, where she worked as a journalist at the Financial Times and as a general correspondent at Reuters from 1999 to 2004.

After returning to New Zealand, she was appointed assistant editor at The Press, became Fairfax Media’s first group digital editor for Stuff.co.nz in 2007, rose to group executive editor in 2013, and was named CEO of Stuff Ltd, New Zealand’s number one media company, in August 2017.

Her defining move came in May 2020, when she purchased the 165 year old company from Australia’s Nine Entertainment for NZ$1 in a management buyout, returning the company to New Zealand ownership amid deep industry turbulence. In June 2023 she restructured the Stuff Group of digital, print, magazine and events businesses into two independent divisions — Stuff Digital, Stuff Masthead Publishing — while continuing to advocate publicly for big tech platforms to compensate publishers for journalism.

Across that arc, she has become one of the most consequential publisher-owners in the Asia-Pacific news industry, recognised for pairing editorial independence and innovation with a strong commercial reinvention of a legacy business.

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