Christian Parsons is the National Operations Manager for Costa Berries, overseeing more than 725 hectares of berry production across Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia.

Christian has been in senior horticulture roles for over 10 years and has industry committee experience within Rubus, blueberries and avocados. Costa grows blueberry, raspberry, blackberry and strawberry crops which enables Christian to have a whole of berry category perspective as well as a detailed understanding of the challenges of each berry commodity across the country.

Christian joins the Berries Australia board as one of two members representing the Rubus industry.