Full background report
Derek Hall
Company Secretary
Career chronology
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Appointed 31 March 2023; current in selected roster and FY2026 report: Boss Energy Limited — Company Secretary. Appointment of Company Secretary (appointment announcement, 31 March 2023); Annual Report 2023 (page 12, secretary appointment); 2026 Annual Report (FY2026 Annual Report, corporate directory, printed page 110)
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Professional services role; dates and ongoing status not established: Regency Corporate — Chief Financial Officer / Company Secretary. Derek Hall professional profile (profile, listed career roles and qualifications)
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Company-secretary role listed from 2017; end date/current status not established: Vection Technologies — Company Secretary; profile also lists Non-Executive Director from 2018. Derek Hall professional profile (profile, Vection Technologies role history)
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Role listed from 2018; end date/current status not established: StreamPlay Studio — Company Secretary. Derek Hall professional profile (profile, StreamPlay Studio role history)
Education and qualifications
Accounting and governance credentials
As reported in profile accessed 2026-10-09 · documented · medium materiality
Business News Australia identifies Hall as a Chartered Accountant, Fellow of the Financial Services Institute, associate member of Chartered Secretaries Australia and Fellow of the Governance Institute. The profile is secondary and credentials were not checked directly with professional bodies.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Qualifications are pertinent to company secretariat and governance duties.
Relevance: Supports company-secretary role fit; verify independently for reliance.
Derek Hall professional profile (profile lines 162-202; company secretary and credentials)
Suitability for the current role
Listed-company secretariat experience supports Company Secretary role
Career through 2026-10-10 · analyst inference · medium materiality
Boss appointment and annual-report sources establish Hall’s Company Secretary role from March 2023. A secondary professional profile lists earlier secretariat roles and accounting/governance credentials, although the details and current concurrent engagements have not been checked against issuer filings or professional-body registers.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This fit assessment does not establish personal involvement in a governance event or independently verify every profile claim.
Relevance: Relevant listed-company secretariat experience supports board and disclosure duties; identity matching and concurrent role dates remain limited.
Appointment of Company Secretary (appointment announcement, 31 March 2023); Annual Report 2023 (page 12, secretary appointment); 2026 Annual Report (FY2026 Annual Report, corporate directory, printed page 110); Derek Hall professional profile (profile, listed career roles and qualifications)
Listed-company secretariat experience
2017–2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality
The annual report lists Derek Hall as Boss company secretary in FY2026; a business profile records his appointment at Boss in 2023 and prior company-secretary roles at StreamPlay Studio and Vection Technologies. The profile also lists a Regency Corporate finance/company-secretarial practice role. Dates and concurrent engagements are not fully resolved.
Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Issuer annual report confirms the current role; professional profile provides secondary evidence of prior roles, with date precision limited.
Relevance: Relevant to disclosure, board process and corporate-governance support.
2026 Annual Report (Annual Report FY2026, corporate directory, printed page 110); Derek Hall professional profile (profile lines 162-202; company secretary and credentials)
Evidence gaps
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Hall is a common name; beyond the issuer’s company-secretary appointment, identity matching is limited.
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Concurrent client and company-secretary engagements and end dates at prior issuers are not fully mapped.
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Reported accounting and governance memberships were not independently verified with professional bodies.
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No exhaustive ASIC, court, professional-disciplinary, sanctions or criminal-record check was performed.