Our Agribusiness Team
Our Agribusiness team back your business decisions with a wealth of local knowledge and life experience across multiple primary industries. From intensive horticulture, poultry to beef and broad acre cropping.
Simon Davis
Head of Corporate & Property - Queensland
Simon has over 25 years’ banking experience across all aspects of the commercial, corporate, property and agribusiness sectors. Supporting his Corporate and Property Bankers, Simon’s experience enables him to provide banking direction for the team in larger scale and corporate operations.
0481 438 212
simon.davis@boq.com.au
Ged Thom
Corporate Agribusiness Manager - Toowoomba
Gerard (Ged) has over 25 years of agribusiness banking experience as well as being directly involved in the cotton industry at the farm gate for seven years. Ged has agronomic qualifications and extensive experience in all facets of cotton production across the supply chain from growing, marketing and processing. Ged’s knowledge lies in cotton, dairy, intensive livestock and grain as well as large scale family operations to corporate and institutional agribusiness entities.
Maree Gillam
Agribusiness Manager - Toowoomba
Maree has been involved in agriculture her whole life and has over eight years’ experience in Agribusiness Finance. Maree is from Western Queensland and holds extensive knowledge across several agricultural industries. She is passionate about being a partner in her clients’ business and working closely with them to maximise their business potential.
Patrick Heagney
Senior Agribusiness Manager - Brisbane
Patrick has been an Agribusiness Banker since 2011 having come from an accounting background. Patrick has a wide network of industry contacts in Queensland and Northern New South Wales, specialising in beef, broad acre cropping (both irrigated and dryland), pork and poultry.
Ian Mills
Senior Agribusiness Manager - Rockhampton
Ian has extensive industry experience across beef, grain, cotton, and sugar as well as the more intensive industries of horticulture and aquaculture. Ian has over 30 years of experience across QLD and prides himself on being a trusted business partner providing clients with industry understanding whilst delivering responsive, knowledgeable and quality service.
Daniel Horrobin
Agribusiness Manager - Rockhampton
Dan brings over 20 years' finance experience in regional and remote Queensland to BOQ and is passionate about the contribution agriculture makes to the Australian economy. With an empathetic approach to banking, Dan prides himself on partnering with clients and supporting them to reach their goals through both the good and the tough seasons.
Ian Simpson
Agribusiness Manager - Dubbo
Ian has over 20 years’ experience working in finance throughout NSW and Southern QLD, also working across agricultural inputs and grain trading, and most recently farm insurance. Specialised in broad acre cropping and sheep and cattle production, Ian believes strongly in working closely with farming businesses and families to achieve sustainable business growth.
Rodney McKern
Agribusiness Manager - Wagga
Rod grew up on the family’s Merino and Prime Lamb farm in regional NSW and his passion for agriculture has extended through a professional career. He started in banking in 1986 and has moved around NSW for various opportunities since. Having built an extensive network and knowledge of what local farmers and graziers need, Rod is focused on supporting and growing agriculture in the Riverina.
Ian brings with him an understanding of who we are as people, who we are as a family, what this is as a business and how it works.
