"Treat others as you would expect to be treated yourself"
MATHEW CROSSLEY
Mat Crossley has worked in the Finance Industry for over 20 years, he holds a Diploma in Finance and Mortgage Broking (Dip.FMBH), and an Honours degree (Bsc Hon) from Oxford Brookes University, in addition to being a Commissioner of declarations. Mat spent the first part of his career working in various roles and locations for Westpac bank before embarking on mortgage broking in 2014, he was inspired to make the change to help more people achieve their financial goals, regardless of the complexity of the situation. Since 2014 Mat has received numerus industry awards including, MPA top 100 broker nationally three times, Top 25 Elite brokers twice, and he won the REB Residential mortgage broker of the year in 2018. Mat values honesty and transparency to provide a simple, straight forward assessment of clients situation and always works in their best interests. Having helped over 10,000 clients and settling over $1 billion in lending there is not too much Mat has not been asked or seen.
I think my favourite food would be
Pizza. So versatile in terms of what you can put on it, dough recipes, how you can cook and eat it and yes I have a wood fired pizza oven so I'm a little biased
My favourite movie or tv series is
Harry Potter. I think we all wanted to be a magical kid at one point or another and just I love the crazy concepts in it even following onto Mysterious beasts
Something people don't know about me is
I lived in Darwin for just over 4 years. When I applied for the role I actually thought Darwin was in Queensland where we were trying to move to, so I spent 4 years living in the wrong place. I loved my time there but geographically did not realise how vast Australia is!
My favourite ice-cream flavour is
Love anything from messina to be honest, different flavour every time. I like trying new things
My favourite drink
Beer, to be precise Sierra Nevada Torpedo American IPA when I can find it, that's probably my favourite style too.
Why did you become a broker
Working for a bank for so long I did not like having to cross sell additional products, and the targets. I always loved the lending side of things and finding solutions, Being a broker enables me to provide solution across the board and not have to add fries to that or worry about the bank we use its just about finding the best solution irrespective!
What do you like most about being a broker
The variety of people and places I get to go, no two applications are the same so there's always a new challenge, I'm not constrained by a single bank but have the ability to find solutions based on the right fit for my client.
Some of the things that make me happy are
- Football (Soccer for the uneducated). I'm a big Burnley fan and play over 35's for Toowong
- Seeing my kids grow
- My wood fired pizza oven. I love getting it fired up and trying something new
- Music. Love all sorts and my days growing up in London in the 90's had a big influence on that
I'm currently trying to improve upon
Not looking at my phone 24/7
I'm improving my health by
Trying to get back into going to the gym, Covid has not been kind to my waistline
Something I love about my family is
They are all so different and individual and each have their own quirks
ANDREA PALELLA (O'SHEA)
DAVID FRENCH
MATHEW CROSSLEY
MATTHEW GOODYEAR
