General Testimonials

John Rush was consistently rated as either "excellent" or "good" by foreign exchange workshop participants and by participants at other Securities Institute financial training courses at which he was a presenter. Positive comments from participants included: "complex subject explained in simple terms - very good style of presentation".

ROSLYN ALLAN
Managing Director
Securities Institute Education (Sydney, Australia)


From a banker's perspective, I benefited from John Rush's ability to demonstrate carefully and clearly a corporation's approach to financial risk management. His practical approach enabled me to appreciate fully the complexities of foreign exchange risk and thereby to understand better clients' risk management needs.

COLIN ARMSTRONG
Group Credit Manager
Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited (Auckland, New Zealand)


Corrs Chambers Westgarth conducts a Banking and Finance Seminar Series for clients and staff lawyers. We invited John Rush of Oakbridge to speak in that series on the subject of credit derivatives. John's address and associated paper explained the basic credit derivatives clearly and succinctly, and was regarded as a substantive and successful contribution to our program.

NICHOLAS DIACOS
Partner
Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Lawyers (Sydney, Australia)


John Rush's ability to explain in clear, succinct, practical terms the principles by which international financial markets function is impressive.

PROFESSOR PETER B DIXON
Director, Centre of Policy Studies
Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)


Oakbridge's workshops capitalise on John Rush's ability to explain in easily comprehended terms otherwise complex financial exposure management. His ability to do this from the viewpoint of both the corporation and the financial institution is based on many years practical experience. He is a most accomplished presenter with a great depth of financial markets knowledge.

MARY ANN DOWLING
Managing Associate, Global Financial Risk Management
International "Big 6" Accounting Firm (New York, USA)


I enjoyed John Rush's workshop presentation manner and was impressed by his financial markets expertise. He happily responded to any questions in a relaxed, yet authoritative, fashion which encouraged interaction amongst the workshop group.

DR NICHOLAS S GIRDIS
Chairman
Girdis Group of Companies (Brisbane, Australia)


Four presentations on financial markets transactions were made to Partners and Staff of the Clayton Utz Sydney Banking and Finance Section by John Rush of Oakbridge. The presentations were exceptionally well received: many attendees made a point of commenting to me how much they did enjoy the series, how much they did learn, and how clear John's presentation was. Particularly relevant, I thought, was the keenness of middle/senior solicitors to put market based questions to John: it afforded them an opportunity to have their questions answered by an expert in the market. It also shows that it is most important that the explanation of the market operation of treasury and derivative products be left to a market expert and not a lawyer. At Clayton Utz's invitation, John repeated his presentations to our professional staff three years later to the same acclaim.

ANTHONY M GREGG
Partner
Clayton Utz, Lawyers (Sydney, Australia)


A particular gift is required to present the complexities of financial markets clearly and understandably. John Rush certainly has it. Participants in his workshops have commented to me that their clarity and usefulness exceeded anything they recalled from their university training.

IAN HAWTHORN
Financial Services Partner
Price Waterhouse (Sydney, Australia)


KPMG has engaged John Rush as an independent treasury management consultant. We have also been involved with John in joint venture training programs and found him to be a highly effective communicator who possesses extensive technical knowledge of international financial markets.

DOUG JUKES
Partner
KPMG (Sydney, Australia)

Securities Institute Education (SIE) at short notice in May 2004 invited John Rush of Oakbridge to prepare and present an “Advanced Options Trading Strategies” address to an SIE corporate client's “Derivatives Pricing & Trading Strategies” in-house workshop. John was rated overall as either “very good” or “excellent” by 91% of attendees providing written evaluations. One attendee wrote: “The presenter was excellent at explaining the concepts. The presenter's ability to explain and maintain the interest of the class was exceptional." A year later that client repeated the workshop and John again delivered his options presentation. That presentation was rated overall as either “very good” or “excellent” by 87% of attendees providing written evaluations. Notable volunteered attendee comments were: “Great presentation - genuinely keen to assist participants and improve their understanding of advanced trading strategies” and “Excellent! Very intelligent and exceptional at explaining complex theories...”

PETER MCDONALD
Delivery and Practitioner Services Manager
Securities Institute Education (Sydney, Australia)


John Rush is a highly respected international financial consultant. His Oakbridge workshop presentations are noted for their practical application of financial risk management techniques which are particularly relevant to both financial institutions and corporations.

ANDREW HOPE-MORLEY
Senior Manager, International Private Banking
Coutts & Co (London, UK)


Oakbridge's workshops, as presented by John Rush, explain financial management techniques in a very clear fashion. John's workshop presentation style, while always authoritative, encourages questioning and interaction amongst participants. His techniques also remain highly effective in a non-Western cultural environment.

THOMAS N HUSE
Vice President, Training Services
Bank of America (San Francisco, USA)


John Rush of Oakbridge was invited to address a luncheon audience of our firm's clients and legal staff on the topic Risk or Hedge: Insight into Alternatives. John's presentation covered a technical, but highly topical, subject in a most comprehensible fashion and was enthralling. He successfully demystified an otherwise difficult subject.

KEVIN KILGOUR
Partner
Hesketh Henry, Barristers & Solicitors (Auckland, New Zealand)


As Finance Director for Caltex Oil Kenya Limited in Nairobi, I invited John Rush to present a financial risk management workshop for senior local staff. John obviously has the ability to present complex financial risk management alternatives in clear and simple terms. His innovative approach and professional manner combine to provide a beneficial and enjoyable experience.

LARRY D KRAMER
Commercial Analyst
Queensland Generation Corporation (Brisbane, Australia)


As Convenor of CPA Australia’s Directors’ Discussion Group (DDG), I am conscious of the need for company directors to be cognisant of the need to understand the benefits and pitfalls associated with the use of financial derivatives. It is my perception that financial derivatives are generally not well understood. I therefore invited John Rush of Oakbridge to write and present a presentation for the DDG titled Derivatives, Directors and Disasters: What’s the Link? The quality of John’s subsequent presentation was assessed by 16 formally responding attendees in terms of three criteria, being content, presentation skills/style and knowledge. On a scale of 1 (very poor) to 10 (high), John’s scores were (i) content: range 6-10, average 7.9, (ii) skills/knowledge: range 6-10, average 7.9 and (iii) knowledge: range 7-10, average 8.8. John’s presentation could be well summarised as “an easy to understand expert presentation of a very difficult and confusing subject”.
 
CON LIVISSIANIS
Convenor, Directors’ Discussion Group
CPA Australia  (Sydney, Australia)


Having known John Rush professionally since the early 1980s, it is clear that he has a great depth of practical experience derived from many years in international financial markets. He has a strong ability to communicate his knowledge most effectively. His international perspective will prove most valuable to those who deal predominantly in their domestic currency and might be less familiar with the inherent risks and opportunities of foreign currency transactions.

MICHAEL J MANNING
President
Stratton Advisors Limited (New York, USA)

In his corporate treasury work for one of Australia's largest mining and industrial conglomerates, I well appreciated that John Rush's skills in utilising appropriate financial exposure management techniques consistently produced excellent results for the company.

PETER J MAXWORTHY
Group Treasurer
Goodman Fielder Limited (Sydney, Australia)


As a respected member of the Gadens Consulting Group, John Rush of Oakbridge has presented specialist financial risk management seminars for clients and staff lawyers at three national Gadens Lawyers offices. He has also structured and presented at Gadens' request a Coming to Terms with the Jargon of International Finance continuing legal education talk for lawyers in our Sydney office. All of John's presentations have been enthusiastically received, due largely to an ability to apply his obvious technical expertise to the clear, concise and practical description of financial markets functioning and transactions which are often clouded in mystique.

DON MCKENZIE
Group Chief Executive
Gadens Lawyers (Sydney, Australia)


The Australian Institute of Company Directors invited John Rush of Oakbridge to tailor a financial risk management workshop for the directors of a major Australian primary producing exporter. John designed and presented a technical workshop of a particularly high standard which met tight time constraints. Virtually all workshop participant responses placed John in either the "one of the best I've seen" or "high standard" classifications for each of the categories: organisation; ability to explain issues clearly; gave opportunity for participation in discussion; use and quality of visual aids. It was generally agreed John was a very professional, participant-driven presenter.

IAN W MACKAY
Manager, NSW Division
Australian Institute of Company Directors (Sydney, Australia)


In all my years as a finance academic and as one who has been closely associated with numerous professional presentations to our membership, I have never seen anything so innovative as John Rush's methodology for representing financial markets transactions. When I first saw it, I immediately perceived that John's totally generic arrow methodology had the capacity to remove the mystery from otherwise complex financial transactions. Excellent responses to his presentations for the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants have, I am pleased to say, borne out my initial belief. John is a most professional presenter and we commend him for the results he has achieved for us!

JOHN D PETTY
Vice President, Membership Services
Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants, NSW Division
and
Lecturer, Faculty of Business
University of Technology, Sydney (Sydney, Australia)


John Rush twice earned a Presenter's Award for his outstanding contribution to CPA Australia's New South Wales Division in professional development core programs during both 1999 and 2000. John's award was made in response to his audiences' appreciation of his presentations.

RHONDA J TRAVERSI
Manager - Professional Development
CPA Australia - New South Wales Division (Sydney, Australia)


In my experience, John Rush is one of those rare individuals who combines extensive financial risk management knowledge with excellent communication skills. John skilfully utilises this knowledge and ability to deliver high quality presentations with an emphasis on practicality.

COLIN D THEYERS
Managing Director
Staples Rodway Consultancy Services Limited (Auckland, New Zealand)


It is refreshing to see a practitioner in the financial markets such as John Rush of Oakbridge present explanations in such a clear and unambiguous manner. A relatively complex subject was presented in a way that enabled even those with minimal previous knowledge to gain a sharp insight into the issues associated with risk mitigation in foreign currency transactions. John's teaching aids were most appropriate and assisted in reinforcing retention of the principles he so well articulated.

CHRIS TURNBULL
Manager, Business Services
AUSTA Energy Corporation Limited (Brisbane, Australia)

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