9Spokes appoints Kevin Phalen to the role of independent non-executive director The company empowers businesses to better manage their performance and enables developers to harness data, information, and knowledge sets to build great apps to support businesses — small, local and large. 9Spokes is an open data platform providing robust infrastructure on which to build business experiences - transforming permissioned data into information. 9Spokes International Ltd (ASX:9SP) has appointed Kevin Phalen to its board of directors as an independent non-executive director, effective June 27. Phalen will also sit on the board's Audit & Risk Committee and Remuneration & Nomination Committee. He brings more than 30 years of global banking and financial services experience to the board.