Main Stage Panel: Creating Your Financial Recipe

How do you boost your agribusiness’s recipe for success with financing? Join this panel for insights on what can increase the appetites of lenders to finance and how their advice can support your business at all stages of growth. Bianca Parsons, Executive Director, Alberta Food Processors, moderates the discussion with Doug Wilson, Assistant Vice President, Corporate Financing and Senior Accounts, FCC; Anton Bellot, Director, Agribusiness & Agri-Food Sector, ATB; and Kevin Chanut, Vice President, Lending, AFSC.

Biography

With a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance from the Haskayne School of Business, Anton’s specialty is advising within the agriculture value chain. This includes everything from ag inputs, agri-food processing, value added ag manufacturing and ag technology. His understanding of how various market conditions, such as foreign exchange, commodity prices, changing customer sentiment and trade can influence key financial decisions for expansion and acquisition makes him invaluable to clients. Anton has been working in financial services for over 8 years, and brings experience with different financial structures for various industries to his work with ATB. Agribusiness and Agri-Food clients rely on his experience and insight when looking for optimal financial solutions for their operations

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