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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Justin Laird

Chief Financial Officer

Career chronology

  • Appointed March 2024; current in selected roster: Boss Energy Limited — Chief Financial Officer. Annual Report 2024 (printed page 22 / PDF page 23, CFO appointment); Management Team (leadership biography, lines 93–99)

  • Approximately nine years before Boss appointment; exact dates and sequence not stated: Wesfarmers — Business-development, transaction, commercial and strategic-finance roles. Annual Report 2024 (printed page 22 / PDF page 23, career summary); Management Team (leadership biography, lines 93–99)

  • Earlier career; dates not disclosed: Ernst & Young — Early career; role details not stated. Annual Report 2024 (printed page 22 / PDF page 23, career summary)

  • Earlier career; dates not disclosed: Vodafone Ireland — Strategic finance roles, including strategic finance and capital-investment analyst. Annual Report 2024 (printed page 22 / PDF page 23, career summary); Management Team (leadership biography, lines 93–99)

Education and qualifications

Chartered Accountant qualification

By March 2024 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Boss’s 2024 annual report states Laird is a Chartered Accountant. No register or degree verification was obtained.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Reported professional qualification is relevant to CFO responsibilities; independent membership verification was not performed.

Relevance: Provides evidence of accounting training for finance leadership.

Annual Report 2024 (printed page 22 / PDF page 23, CFO appointment and career summary)

Contributions and company outcomes

FY2026 revenue and operating cash flow improved

FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

The FY2026 annual report records revenue of A$151.072 million versus A$75.596 million in FY2025, profit after tax of A$2.544 million versus a A$34.168 million loss, and operating cash inflow of A$73.636 million versus A$17.381 million. Laird was CFO through the reporting year; the figures are company-level outcomes, not isolated personal performance.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The CFO role overlapped the results period, but the sources do not isolate Laird’s personal contribution or separate operating/commodity effects.

Relevance: Relevant evidence of the financial environment overseen by the CFO, but not proof of individual causation.

Annual Report 2026 (FY2026 annual report, financial highlights and cash-flow discussion); 2026 Annual Report (FY2026 annual report, CFO and leadership disclosures)

Suitability for the current role

Commercial finance background is relevant to CFO responsibilities

Career through 2026-10-10 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Issuer sources describe approximately nine years of Wesfarmers commercial, business-development and transaction experience, earlier EY and Vodafone Ireland finance roles, and a March 2024 appointment as Boss CFO. The record supports relevant exposure but lacks independently verified credentials and person-attributed prior outcomes.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. No individual credit for FY2026 company financial results is inferred from role overlap.

Relevance: Prior finance and transaction exposure is relevant to capital allocation and reporting; tenure and outcome evidence remain issuer-led.

Annual Report 2024 (printed page 22 / PDF page 23, CFO appointment and career summary); Management Team (leadership biography, lines 93–99)

Commercial and strategic finance background before CFO appointment

Career through March 2024 · analyst inference · medium materiality

The FY2024 annual report records a March 2024 CFO appointment after approximately nine years in business-development, transaction and commercial/strategic positions at Wesfarmers, with earlier audit and finance-analyst work at EY and Vodafone Ireland. The evidence supports relevant exposure but does not independently document specific transactions or outcomes.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The issuer describes career and qualification history; individual outcome attribution was not established.

Relevance: Relevant to finance, capital allocation and transaction oversight at Boss.

Annual Report 2024 (printed page 22 / PDF page 23, CFO appointment and career summary); Management Team (leadership biography, lines 93-99)

Evidence gaps

  • Specific dates and detailed responsibilities across Wesfarmers, EY and Vodafone Ireland are incomplete; no personally attributable transaction or business outcome was established.

  • The Chartered Accountant designation is issuer-reported and was not checked against CA ANZ membership records; no university degree record was located.

  • FY2026 company financial outcomes overlap the CFO tenure, but no source isolates Laird’s contribution or separates operating and commodity effects.

  • Targeted regulator, court, safety, environmental, ASIC, sanctions and criminal-record searches were incomplete; no clearance is implied.