# Melissa Roberts Chief Financial Officer ## Career chronology - **As disclosed through 2026; exact start and continuity where noted: Lotus Resources** — Chief Financial Officer. [Lotus appoints CFO Melissa Roberts]() (Page 1, appointment and prior experience) - **Commenced 2 August 2021; Talga announced intended departure on 31 December 2024, actual date not independently confirmed: Talga Group** — Chief Financial Officer. [Talga to relocate Group CFO role to Europe]() (p.1, CFO tenure and departure); [Talga Group annual report 2022]() (p.36, CFO appointment date) ## Education and qualifications ### Issuer-reported qualifications [exe-roberts-education] As reported in issuer biography · issuer reported · low materiality Lotus reports a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from UWA, an executive MBA from AGSM and AICD graduate status. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Issuer biography is not independent confirmation of degree or professional admission. **Relevance:** Relevant qualifications for role assessment; credentials remain unverified. [Board and management]() (Management biography: Melissa Roberts) ## Personal achievements ### Talga financing work attributed by former employer [roberts-talga] 2021–2024 · issuer reported · medium materiality On Roberts’s departure Talga’s chair credited her with financing work, including European Investment Bank funding approval and a successful €70 million Innovation Fund grant application. These are employer-attributed contributions, not proof of commercial mine completion. **Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. Talga’s chair explicitly attributed financing work to her; claimed individual contribution is not independently audited. **Relevance:** Relevant financing experience for a capital-intensive restart. [Talga to relocate Group CFO role to Europe]() (p.1, chair statement and funding) ## Business failures and setbacks ### Auditor flagged material going-concern uncertainty [roberts-goingconcern] FY2026 audit and post-balance-date funding · documented · high materiality Lotus’s FY2026 auditor reported a material uncertainty regarding going concern linked to operational and funding plans, while not modifying the audit opinion. The company reported A$60.1 million in entitlement proceeds and A$35 million in convertible notes after the year end. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Roberts was CFO; no personal responsibility for the uncertainty is established. **Relevance:** Relevant to financing and financial risk management. [Annual Report 2026]() (pp.135 and 139, funding and audit opinion) ## Suitability for the current role ### Career and role fit [exe-roberts-role] Through cutoff · analyst inference · low materiality Analyst inference: Lotus appointed her CFO on 28 July 2025; issuer identifies Talga CFO and Iluka commercial and investor-relations roles, and reports commerce and MBA qualifications. This experience is relevant to the role but does not establish individual operating results. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Role-fit inference from company and dated role records; not a finding of personal performance. **Relevance:** Relevant to company execution; prior-employer histories remain incompletely corroborated. [Lotus appoints CFO Melissa Roberts]() (Page 1, appointment and prior experience) ## Evidence gaps - Independent credential and professional-membership verification was not obtained. - Full prior-employer chronology, outcomes and personal contributions were not established. - Open-web searches and accessible public records are a limited screening, not an exhaustive court, regulator, sanctions or criminal-record check. - Several topic rows reuse one broad search; dedicated person-specific former-employer, fraud, safety, environmental, legal and regulator searches remain incomplete. - Talga announced a planned 31 December 2024 departure; its 2025 annual report could not be opened to independently confirm the actual end date.