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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Melanie Ross

Company Secretary

Career chronology

  • 28 March 2018–cutoff: Great Boulder Resources Limited — Company Secretary. Annual Report to shareholders 2026 (printed p.27, appointment date); Annual Report to shareholders 2026 (printed p.5, corporate directory)

  • Current in 2026 annual report; entity unnamed: Corporate advisory company in Perth — Director; corporate and listed-company advisory services. Annual Report to shareholders 2026 (printed p.27, Company Secretary biography)

  • Undated: Hall Chadwick; Qantas Group — Prior corporate advisory/accounting roles. Board & Management (Melanie Ross biography)

  • Current appointments listed by Cosmo issuer page accessed 9 October 2026: Celsius Resources, Redbank Copper, Lycaon Resources, Tempus Resources — Company Secretary and/or CFO (issuer biography; role-by-company dates not specified). Board & Management (Melanie Ross biography)

Education and qualifications

Commerce degree and professional memberships reported

Reported in FY26 annual report · issuer reported · medium materiality

Great Boulder’s FY26 annual report states Ross holds a Bachelor of Commerce, is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, and an associate member of the Governance Institute of Australia. The memberships and degree are issuer-reported; no independent credential check was conducted.

Attribution: Individual involvement documented. The issuer biography records the credentials; no credential verification was obtained.

Relevance: Relevant to company-secretarial, accounting and governance duties.

Annual Report to shareholders 2026 (printed p.27, Company Secretary biography)

Governance and interests

Company-level cleansing notice lapse overlapped tenure

March–July 2023 · documented · medium materiality

During Ross’s company-secretary tenure, Great Boulder failed to lodge a cleansing notice on time after a March 2023 share issue. The Court records that the company relied on incorrect or incomplete legal advice; it found honest conduct and no substantial injustice and granted curative orders. The judgment names Paterson’s affidavit and the legal adviser, and does not attribute the error to Ross.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. Her company-secretary tenure overlapped the event, but the Court did not identify her as responsible or make a personal finding.

Relevance: Relevant to governance oversight and disclosure controls, with personal responsibility explicitly unestablished.

Re Great Boulder Resources Ltd; Ex parte Great Boulder Resources Ltd [2023] WASC 258 (paras. 1–3, factual background and disposition); Annual Report to shareholders 2026 (printed p.27, appointment date)

Suitability for the current role

Relevance of current Company Secretary role

Current at 2026-10-09 · analyst inference · medium materiality

The FY26 annual report records Ross’s appointment as Company Secretary on 28 March 2018, over 20 years in accounting, audit, corporate advisory and governance, a Bachelor of Commerce, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand membership and Governance Institute associate membership. Cosmo Metals’ issuer page also lists prior Qantas Group and Hall Chadwick roles and several concurrent company-secretarial/CFO roles; dates and complete current scope are not independently verified. This background is relevant to disclosure and governance, with concurrent mandates an execution-capacity consideration.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. This is a role-fit judgment, not an outcome or misconduct finding.

Relevance: Relevant to listed-company accounting, corporate governance and disclosure, while multiple concurrent company roles raise a capacity question.

Annual Report to shareholders 2026 (printed p.27); Board & Management (Melanie Ross biography)

Evidence gaps

  • A complete dated career chronology, verified education/professional membership and full concurrent-interest record were not established.

  • Person-specific enforcement, litigation, safety, environmental, legal and governance searches across material former employers remain uncompleted; no clearance conclusion is implied.