---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001641172-25-008863"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COOT"
cik: "0001959994"
company_name: "Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd"
filed_at: "2025-05-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T14:31:26.547289+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Australian Oilseeds Holdings appoints Phaneesh Murthy to board; Athukorala resigns

## Summary
- Menaka Athukorala retired from board and committees effective May 1, 2025; no dispute with company.
- Phaneesh Murthy elected as Class I director at April 30, 2025 annual meeting (13.56M shares for).
- Murthy expected to chair Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee; also on Audit Committee.
- Shareholders ratified BDO Audit Pty Ltd as independent auditor for 2024 (13.7M shares for).
- Murthy brings experience as former iGATE CEO and Infosys global sales head.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-008863
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COOT
- cik: 0001959994
- company_name: Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd
- filed_at: 2025-05-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1959994/000164117225008863/0001641172-25-008863-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1959994/000164117225008863/form8-k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001641172-25-008863
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001641172-25-008863.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001641172-25-008863.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Menaka Athukorala resigned as Director at Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 1, 2025, Mr. Menaka Athukorala tendered his notice of retirement and resignation from the Board of Directors of Australian Oilseeds Holdings Limited, a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Company”), effective as of May 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1959994/000164117225008863/0001641172-25-008863-index.htm
- Executive change
  Phaneesh Murthy was elected as Director at Australian Oilseeds Holdings Ltd.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: At the recent 2025 Annual Meeting of the shareholders of the Company, Mr. Phaneesh Murthy was elected to the Board of Directors of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1959994/000164117225008863/0001641172-25-008863-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.