Matthew Walsh Email & Phone Number

New Plymouth

Rural Manager for the Taranaki region, based out of New Plymouth/Hawera. Largely working with dairy farmers with some other mixed industries.

Sydney, Australia

Working in the Agribusiness, SME & MME segments for commercial clients, with a focus of North Queensland Agribusiness.

Sydney Area, Australia

Relationship Manager (with Delegated Lending Authority) for small to medium sized agribusiness firms and senior Sydney-based Corporate entrepreneurs with agricultural interests. The agricultural industry exposures ranged across beef, sheep, grains, grapes, wineries, Asian import/export and forestry.

Sydney Area, Australia

Transferred to the Sydney office as the sole associate for the management of financial products in a $200m corporate agribusiness portfolio, responsible for credit analysis & submissions, customer relationship management & compliance. Industry exposure to cotton, wool, grains, dairy, beef, bloodstock, poultry and forestry.

Grafton

After concluding the graduate program, I gained a permanent rural role based in Northern NSW as a dedicated analyst to the manager of a $70m agribusiness, responsible for credit analysis & submissions, customer relationship management & compliance. Industry exposure to sugar cane, grains, bananas & berries, potatoes, vegetables, bloodstock, beef & dairy.

Part of the 2010 NAB Graduate intake for the Agribusiness stream, attending several leadership development events and functions in addition to 8 months of dedicated credit analysis training, prior to a field placement.

Sydney, Australia

Spent 6 months as 2IC of a 10 person direct banking team whilst uBank was a start-up operation in its growth phase, awaiting the start of the 2010 graduate program. My time there also included a secondment to the NextGen operating systems development team (Testing & Development).

Venice Area, Italy

Competed at the 2008 World University Championships in European Handball for Australia in July 2008. Player & manager, in addition to being elected as 1 of 5 Technical Commissioners for the tournament. Spent the remainder of my time travelling through the Americas.

Sydney, Australia

Whilst at University I held a variety of roles as an officer in the above teams on a part & full-time basis whilst completing my university degree, ensuring exposure to most elements of the lending chain. My initial role was in data collection & document preparation with medium term secondments in credit analysis, discharges, portfolio management.

Macquarie Commodities (Macquarie Bank)4 weeks experience wherein I learnt about commodity pricing & trading and wrote 2 analytical papers on a specific Asian economy relating to a specific industry and the agricultural sector as a whole. Wrote a report for my university degree.Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX)4 weeks of work experience and wrote a discussion.

Derbyshire, United Kingdom

Gapp teacher (sports & tutoring) & all-round nice guy at The Repton School in the English Midlands.

B. Applied (Agricultural) Economics, With A Double Economics Major & Single Agricultural (Applied) Economics Major

Other minor studies in marketing, commercial law, accounting & statistics.

Education record