Full background report
Shane Plant
Chief Commercial Officer
Career chronology
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2021–present: IMDEX — Chief Commercial Officer. IMDEX FY26 annual report (Physical page 27, Shane Plant biography); 2026 AGM presentation and trading update (Physical page 28, executive leadership)
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Before 2021; exact start and end not independently verified: Weatherford — Global Commercial Director, as reported by IMDEX. IMDEX 2024 annual report (Page 31 biography)
Education and qualifications
Reported education and professional training
At FY26 reporting · issuer reported · low materiality
The issuer reports BSc Management and Finance, Technological University Dublin. These credentials and current membership status were not independently checked.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Issuer biography; not independently verified.
Relevance: Shows reported training relevant to the role.
IMDEX FY26 annual report (Physical page 27, Shane Plant biography)
Business failures and setbacks
Prior Weatherford restructuring
2019 · documented · medium materiality
IMDEX reports Plant previously served as a Weatherford global commercial director. A secondary profile places a Weatherford Australia role in 2019–20. Weatherford International filed Chapter 11 in July 2019 and emerged in December 2019; precise overlap and his responsibilities for the restructuring are not independently established.
Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. Company restructuring does not establish individual responsibility; the specific subsidiary and tenure overlap require corroboration.
Relevance: A material prior-employer business outcome.
IMDEX 2024 annual report (Page 31, Plant biography); Shane Plant executive work history (Experience history); Weatherford annual report, emergence from bankruptcy (Note 1, emergence from bankruptcy)
Suitability for the current role
Relevant experience for current role
2021–present · analyst inference · medium materiality
Joined as Global Commercial Manager in 2021, becoming CCO in 2023; IMDEX reports six years as Weatherford International Global Commercial Director. The fit to the present mandate is an analyst inference; the underlying chronology is mainly company-reported.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. A role-fit judgment, not an independently measured individual outcome.
Relevance: Relevant to the assigned leadership responsibilities.
IMDEX FY26 annual report (Physical page 27, Shane Plant biography); 2026 AGM presentation and trading update (Physical page 28, executive leadership)
Evidence gaps
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The specific Weatherford role dates and responsibilities during 2019 restructuring remain unverified independently.
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Independent verification of education, credentials and professional memberships is incomplete.
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Complete prior-employer dates, role-specific outcomes and primary regulator/court records were not established.
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The targeted open-web search is not exhaustive and does not establish absence of adverse records.