# Doug Warden

Chief Financial Officer

## Career chronology

- **From August 2024; joint secretary temporarily 7 November 2025–20 January 2026: Ora Banda Mining** — Chief Financial Officer. [2026 Annual Report](<https://asx.api.markitdigital.com/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-03126338-6A1340357>) (Printed pages 12–13 and 18, leadership biographies)

- **Interim CEO 12 March–4 June 2024; employment ended 1 July 2024: Core Lithium** — Chief Financial Officer; interim Chief Executive Officer. [2024 annual report](<https://www.datocms-assets.com/106701/1727402206-cxo-core_lithium-2024-annual-report-to-shareholders.pdf>) (Remuneration report executive roles)

## Business failures and setbacks

### Core Lithium paused mining during finance leadership [warden_core]

FY2024 · issuer reported · high materiality

Core said it paused Grants mining in January 2024 as lithium prices fell; FY2024 saw a A$207.0 million net loss including A$119.6 million impairment. Warden was CFO and became interim CEO in March, after the mining pause; processing stopped in June.

**Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Warden was CFO and served as interim CEO March–June 2024. The pause predates his interim appointment; no personal causation is established.

**Relevance:** Shows prior exposure to financial and operational retrenchment.

[2024 annual report](<https://www.datocms-assets.com/106701/1727402206-cxo-core_lithium-2024-annual-report-to-shareholders.pdf>) (Printed pp.8, 22–23 and remuneration details)

## Suitability for the current role

### Relevant experience and evidence limits [exec_doug_warden_fit]

Career experience stated in issuer sources through 2026 · analyst inference · low materiality

The issuer reports finance leadership at three listed miners; that experience is relevant to funding and financial oversight.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. This is an analytical assessment based on reported roles, not proof of individual outcomes.

**Relevance:** Relevance of background to current responsibilities.

[2026 Annual Report](<https://asx.api.markitdigital.com/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-03126338-6A1340357>) (Printed pages 12–13 and 18, leadership biographies)

## Evidence gaps

- Independent verification of credentials, professional memberships, complete employment dates and individual contributions is incomplete.

- Person-specific past-employer, court, regulator, fraud, safety, environmental and governance searches remain partial; this screening is not a clearance.

- The saved search log records one combined broad query per person; separate dedicated searches across every due-diligence topic and prior employer were not completed.