Dean Smith Email & Phone Number

Rolleston, Canterbury, New Zealand

Rangiora, Canterbury, New Zealand

Hastings NZ

Trading grains across all of New Zealand; wheat, barley, maize and organics. Strong end-user and supplier relationships coupled with fastidious execution.

Christchurch

Farmlands is New Zealand's largest farmer owned cooperative, created in 2014 from the merger of two farmer cooperatives, CRT (South Island) and Farmlands (North Island).My role as Grain Trader for the group, encompassed both South and North Islands.

Sydney

Murray Valley Meat Trading Co (MVMT) is part of the Woodward Integrated Agribusiness Group.The group is an integrated animal protein agribusiness with significant pastoral land holdings, a 8000 head feedlot, and a modern processing facility (including a rendering plant) in Swan Hill Victoria. The group has over 60 trucks and meat distribution hubs in.

Sydney, Australia

Part of a global team I provided analysis of the domestic Australian grain market, produced market reports and presented commodity updates to Rabobank's Australian client base.

Sydney, Australia

My role included educating Australian producers on price risk management, conducting seminars, generating brokerage and providing price risk management advice, with a focus on the correct use of hedging instruments such as CBOT wheat futures/options etc.I was instrumental in growing the business from a purely advice-focused company to one that became one.

Collins St, Melbourne Victoria

Managing daily reconciliation of the banks commodity futures position across multiple markets, along with commodity confirmations, futures, options and structured products.I was also responsible for back office support for the "Total Return Swap" finance product, specifically tailored for soft commodity users. This product enabled users of soft commodities.

Melbourne, Australia

RiskAssist was a department within AWB Limited, formerly Australia's single desk wheat exporter, which provided unique price risk management products to Australian farmers.This included a product known as the "basis pool" where basis was managed by RiskAssist but growers were free to manage their own futures position. My role at Risk Assist included.

Master Of Applied Finance, Risk Management

Graduate Diploma, Applied Finance And Investment

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology

Ausmeat Non-Packer Exporter, Meat Exporting

Ausmeat's Non-packer exporter course covers all aspects of exporting meat from Australia. Successful completion is a necessary requirement.