Keryn Nylander FAICD

Inaugural Chair, Tasmanian JackJumpers

Tasmanian born and educated, Keryn has worked in the Tasmanian media industry for three decades both as a communications professional and award-winning journalist. She is a former State political reporter for both print and electronic media before rising to be the Head of News for WIN Television Tasmania – the first female for the network in Australia.


For the past two decades, Keryn has worked as a media, public relations and communications consultant designing and implementing communications strategies for a vast range of corporate, Government and not-for-profit organisations.

Keryn has also had a long association with the wine industry starting with brand development of Moorilla Estate in 1990, to the creation of the Tamar Ridge wine label and more recently Keryn was a part of the management team and a shareholder in specialist contract winemaking business Winemaking Tasmania Pty Ltd from 2005-2013 in Cambridge, Hobart.

Keryn has a strong understanding of the Tasmanian economic environment through her leadership for the past 20 years in a number of senior board roles in Tasmania – including inaugural Chair of new National Basketball League franchise Tasmania JackJumpers (2021-2024), a non-executive director of Tasmanian energy retailer Aurora Energy and for the RACT Group and Insurance boards. Keryn has also served as a director and former chair of Tasmanian customer-owned financial institution Bank of us (2005-2021), director of the State’s peak wine body Wine Tasmania (2006-2014), a director of the Tasmanian Development Board (2001-2014), and Director and Chair of Fahan School (2008-2017). Keryn is also Executive Director of the Committee for Greater Hobart, appointed in July 2024 after being appointed as a founding director of the Committee when it was launched in 2023.

Keryn was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (Tasmania) in 2013.

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