Company: COOT
Filing Date: 2025-10-23
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001493152-25-019123
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Company: Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-10-23
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
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 an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad.

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Kevin
Chen, Director (Independent)

Mr.
Chen has also been a guest speaker at Harvard University, Fordham University, Pace University, and IESE Business School and a former
member of the Adjunct Advisory Committee and former Interim Head of the Private Sector Concentration program of Master of Science in
Global Affairs, New York University, and has been an adjunct professor there since 2012. Mr. Chen is a Member of the Economic Club of
New York, Co-Chair of the New York Finance Forum, Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, Member of the Bretton Woods Committee, Editorial
Advisory Board Member of the Global Commodity Applied Research Digest (GCARD) at JP Morgan Center for Commodities (JPMCC) at the University
of Colorado Denver Business School. Mr. Chen obtained his PhD in Finance from the Financial Asset Management Engineering Center at University
of Lausanne, Switzerland in 2005, master’s degree in finance, Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University in the Netherland
in 2001, and B. A. degree in Economics from the Renmin University of China in China in 1998. We believe Mr. Chen is well qualified to
serve as a director due to his experience in financing and investing acquired over the course of his career working in financial institutions.

Gowri
Shankar, Director (Independent), Audit Committee Chair

The
business and affairs of the Company are managed by or under the supervision of the Company’s Board, the Board is consisting of
five directors: Gary Seaton, Gowri Shankar, Kapil Singh, Kevin Chen and Phaneesh Murthy, with Gary Seaton expected to serve as Chairman
of the Board. The primary responsibilities of the Board will be to provide oversight, strategic guidance, counselling and direction to
the Company’s management. The Board will meet on a regular basis and additionally as required.

Most
of the Company’s directors and officers are located outside of the United States and are nationals or residents of jurisdictions
other than the United States, and all or a substantial portion of their assets are located outside of the United States. Gary Seaton
and Amarjeet Singh reside in Australia; Kapil Singh resides in Dubai and Gowri Shankar resides in India. As a result, it may be difficult
for investors to effect service of process within the United States upon these persons, or to enforce