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2026-11-06

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Full background report

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 (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 (Remuneration report executive roles)

Business failures and setbacks

Core Lithium paused mining during finance leadership

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 (Printed pp.8, 22–23 and remuneration details)

Suitability for the current role

Relevant experience and evidence limits

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 (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.