About Agres
Grant Burns – Managing Director
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Graduated as a Master of Business Administration, majoring in Corporate Treasury Management in 2005.
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Graduated from Agricultural Science from The University of Melbourne in 1997
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He is predominantly completing a project on a large scale hydropnic complex employing up to 100 employees and working with a mutinational in the export grain sphere.
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He also looks after the 70 or so farming clients that he has been involved with over the previous 4 years, particularly in crisis management.
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Grant has consulted across the agribusiness sector in cropping, dairy, irrigated agriculture, horticulture, hydroponics and the livestock sectors.
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The business presently employs 5 staff.
Corporate Employment experience;
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Worked as a finacier for 5 years controlling footings of 80M, in the agribusiness and commerical space.
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Worked as an Ag Scientist in the agronomy fields of irrigated dairy and irrigated horticulture.
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Worked in fruit export for three years.
Personal background
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Grant is from a mixed livestock/cropping background, with a proud dairy heritage on his mothers family side.
Odette Suitor- Operations Manager
Odette has a Master of Business, a degree in Agricultural Science and has worked in management for a Agricultural Corporate as well as in International freight and logistics specoialising in grain.
Odette is presently working on a grain storage project that she has founded.
Odette recently purchased 600 of farming land and is hands on in the management.
Shane Mortlock – Farm Business Operations
Shane has a degree in commerce, experience in accounting aand is presently completing his CPA.
Shane is responsible for the management of the agricultural part of the business
Shane's family farm approximately 15,000 acres in the Southern Wimmera