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2026-11-06

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Full background report

Kevin Ball

Chief Financial Officer

Career chronology

  • Issuer FY2026 executive roster; earlier role dates described in the finding: Whitehaven Coal Limited — Chief Financial Officer. FY26 Appendix 4E and annual report (Printed p13)

Contributions and company outcomes

FY2026 production and financial outcome

FY2025–FY2026 · issuer reported · medium materiality

Whitehaven reports managed ROM coal production of 40.3Mt in FY2026, compared with 39.1Mt in FY2025, while underlying net profit fell from A$319m to A$227m. Coal prices and group factors affect these results; no individual contribution is quantified.

Attribution: Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The executive held a senior role during this period; the group outcomes do not establish individual credit or fault.

Relevance: Context for group delivery and capital discipline.

FY26 Appendix 4E and annual report (Printed p19 financial results; printed p45 production)

Suitability for the current role

Reported career and role

Career and appointments through FY2026 · analyst inference · low materiality

Whitehaven reports prior Ernst & Young natural-resources work, a UNSW Bachelor of Commerce and a Macquarie graduate diploma. The company biography says he was appointed CFO in October 2013, while its FY26 executive contract table lists 16 December 2013; the distinction has not been resolved.

Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. The biographical facts are issuer-reported; their relevance is an analytical inference, not independent qualification verification.

Relevance: Experience is relevant to the executive’s reported responsibilities.

FY26 Appendix 4E and annual report (Printed p13)

Evidence gaps

  • Person-specific targeted searches across all topics, previous employers, court and regulator records are incomplete; the broad combined searches cannot establish an exhaustive negative result.

  • Independently verified qualifications, precise previous-employer tenure and person-specific project contributions are unavailable or were not established in this limited pass.

  • Dated FY26 roster and the undated leadership page support the described roles, but every role’s exact continuation on the cutoff date is not independently established.

  • FY26 issuer biography says October 2013 CFO appointment; FY26 executive contract table states 16 December 2013. The difference is unresolved.

  • The original research checkpoint records the searches and source reviews, but the original tool-call transcript was unavailable to this retrospective audit, so the precise historical calls cannot be independently verified. The broad query is reused across topic rows and does not establish dedicated topic searches.