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Very close to being a Cairns local, I was born in the rainy town of Innisfail. After venturing down to Brisbane for a couple of years to study, I made my way back to Cairns to set up my life.
After my studies, I found myself working in the mining industry for a copper mine in Mt Isa. It took me 3 years to realise that working in the sun all day was not a great idea!
I moved back into town and started working for Australia’s favourite telecommunication company. Becoming a business manager for the Telstra Earlville store, I came to love business and especially found interest in the finance side.
Fast forward 4 years and I moved my skills over to banking, where I became a home loan manager.
I recently transitioned over to Astute Finance, where I’m excited to continue creating positive customer relations, and help people achieve their dream.
I’ve recently built a house at Trinity Beach, so I’ve become very familiar with the building process.
Outside of office life, you’ll find me camping, in the gym, or drinking my favourite coffee on the beach. I look forward to helping you on your home buying journey!
Astute are very professional & helpful. Would recommend these guys to anyone looking at refinancing or purchasing. Started with this team when they were in their little office, my how they have grown. Special thanks to Verena for all her help but all the staff are wonderful and great with the little ones as well 🙂 Thanks heaps.
We recently had an appointment with Astute to help us sort out our mortgage needs. From the moment we stepped into the building we were made to feel welcome. From Shae on the front desk to Damian during our appointment. Damian went above and beyond to help us with our needs, explaining things simply and offering further support. It all makes so much more sense when you have someone who knows what they’re talking about! Thank you so much.
We have been using John since we bought our first house in 2008 and taken sound advice from him in all our finance dealing ever since; which has included, opening a business, building our second house and now purchasing an investment property. We trust the advice given to us and not understanding the finance world hugely rely on the knowledge given to us in making decisions. We thank Verena very much with her patience throughout each deal and her simple way of explaining the overwhelming fluff that the banks put on paper. Johns stickmen and drawings helped us immensely 🙂 We really feel like we have actually made some good friends when dealing with Astute.
Simon is fantastic! He explains and explains again if you don’t understand. He has helped us on a couple of occasions now and seriously, I wouldn’t go anywhere else or to anyone else.
Friendly and very knowledgeable. Made the whole process of getting our first mortgage easy and relatively stress free. Very prompt communication and excellent rates provided on our mortgage.
Excellent team, all staff were professional and friendly, will definitely use their expertise again and recommend to friends and family.
John and the team looked after us on many fronts from mortgage, superannuation and even life insurance. We even compared rates on our new vehicle lease and Astute came through better than any bank.
These guys definitely have the XFactor
First time we have used a mortgage broker and we will both recommend Billie.
All the staff at Astute are very professional and genuinely interested in making it easy – would be great to get this service everywhere I go 🙂
I give them two thumbs up! I always feel comfortable visiting the office because I know I’m in good hands!
