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TROPIC • COVER STORY

Kerri Atkinson Anita Baker Gordon Dalziel
Agribusiness Manager, Agribusiness Manager, Business Banking Manager,
Atherton Tablelands Cassowary Coast Cairns
My average day consists of working I applied for a role at NAB when I I started at NAB in August 2016. I’ve
with my agribusiness clients graduated Year 12 in Innisfail. Being had a long-term banking career
assisting them with their banking employed by a bank was seen as a – I started in the industry in July
needs to successfully operate their secure and respected career and I 1982. There’s no such thing as an
farming business and achieve their was extremely happy to be employed average day. My portfolio covers a
goals. My agribusiness portfolio is as a “batch clerk” in the NAB Rankin diverse range of clients including
very diverse across many sectors St office. As the years progressed professional services, health,
such as mangoes, avocados, citrus, I transferred to NAB in Cairns, construction, personal services, and
lychee, cane, bananas, pumpkins, Brisbane and Rockhampton and retail. I love watching businesses
longans, turf, cropping, poultry, back to Innisfail, Being a Career NAB grow and become successful.
livestock, as well as services to banker is something I am proud of.
agriculture. Being on a client’s farm I work with agricultural customers
and learning about their farming on a daily basis and visit clients on
history and successes is the best their sugar cane, bananas and cattle
part of my role. farms.

Elisha-Vi Raso
Business Banking Executive,
Regional and Agribusiness Far North
QLD
Martin Geisel Tom Haywood I have a very diverse role. I lead
Senior Business Banking Manager, Senior Agribusiness Manager, a strong capable Management
Cairns Atherton Tablelands team and we have a diversified
Over the past 35 years I’ve met a My role as an Agribusiness manager business banking book with a
lot of interesting people and made entails orchestrating banking range of industries - everything
some good friends having worked requirements for clients and from Commercial Real Estate to
in numerous locations across investing time with them on farm Agribusiness to NGO and Health just
Queensland in that time. Getting to work with them to achieve future to name a few. My role, while diverse,
out and meeting the clients on aspirations. Agriculture is the main simply comes down to the fact
site which has involved a couple of industry for me, including avocados, that it’s my responsibility to ensure
overseas trips and also being a part bananas, mangoes, citrus, cattle and that as a team we serve Far North
of a large complex transaction and agricultural tourism. I love being on Queensland customers well and
seeing it through to fruition is very the farm and prefer being out of the make sure our community thrives.
satisfying. office meeting with clients. There are no average days!

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