Patrick Edwards Email & Phone Number

Australia

Not-for-profit organization campaigning for fair treatment of recipients of British State Pensions in Australia.

Sydney, Australia

I had volunteered to help at the Finance & Treasury Association, the Australian professional body got corporate treasurers. It was suggested that we should ask Tom Pockett, the CFO at Woolworths to speak at one of our events. As he had been my boss at Commonwealth Bank, I agreed to telephone him. Before I could invite him, he asked me "What are you doing.

Sydney, Australia

I was asked by Chris Cuffe (previously Managing Director of Colonial First State) to join him at Challenger, a financial services firm. I accepted subject to being able to take a long planned two month holiday travelling across Russia. Unbeknownst to him, a corporate restructure was about to occur and after six weeks, my position was taken by someone else..

Sydney, Australia

I was one of the first Colonial staff to make the move from Melbourne to Sydney.Capital Management covered regulatory capital, dealings with credit rating agencies and dividend policy. I saw a need to increase the calibre of the staff in the department and recruited new people to add to and eventually replace the existing staff. I updated the reporting.

Melbourne, Australia

I was head-hunted to become Treasurer of Colonial, then a mutual life insurer. I oversaw the finance stream of the demutalisation and subsequent IPO. I negotiated with APRA the regulatory capital requirement for the first NOHC (non-operating holding company) in Australia.I managed the book builds and placements to raise A$232 million on the IPO (1996) and.

Sydney, Australia

I became to first Treasurer of GIO Australia after its privatisation. I managed a transactional banking tender that produced savings of over A$1 million pa. I arranged GIO's first debt raising after its privatisation (a 3-year syndicated loan). I was responsible for dealings with credit rating agencies. I managed a lending portfolio, which required daily.

Sydney, Australia

CCF was a mid-sized French bank. I had been introduced to the head of their international division and when he knew I was planning to move to Australia, he asked if I'd be interested in running their Australian business. I took 3 days off work in Hong Kong, flew to Paris to meet their senior management and liked what I saw.However, when I arrived in.

Hong Kong

I started with Jardines as an accountant in their Consumer Goods Division in Hong Kong, was transferred to Tokyo, Japan in 1975 where I was accountant for their shipping department and for various joint ventures in luxury products (Dunhill), investment banking (Jardine Fleming) and real estate (KK Halifax). In 1977 I was back in Hong Kong as Assistant.