Management Team

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Corey Tai - CEO is a passionate golfer and the founder of Golferholics.com. He was born in Hong Kong and in 1967, when he was 11, his family moved to Melbourne. Corey embarked on his first business venture,as a 20-year-old, opening a restaurant. He moved to Brisbane in 1981 and went on to start one of Australia’s first personal computer businesses. It became a major importer, manufacturer and distributor of computers and peripherals. Corey has undertaken more than a dozen property developments since 1989. His love of golf started 21 years ago and he today has a handicap of 12. He has devoted the past five years to making Golferholics.com a reality.

Peter Sankowsky - Country Manager Australia Peter started his working life with the National Bank, working in many of their city & country branches in Queensland, from Brisbane, to Tully in the north & Charleville in the west. After rising through the ranks, Peter attained management level, the highlight being opening the new branch at Kawana Waters on the Sunshine coast. After several years of management, Peter decided it was time for a change, so he moved to the IT Industry, firstly with Corey Tai in his computer business for 10 years followed by another 10 years as Queensland State Manager of one of Australia’s largest privately owned IT importers & distributors prior to Golferholics.com.

Nanda (Cass) Gopal - IT Manager Cass is a 33-year-old information technology manager who was born in India and gained his education while he travelled across various parts of the country. He is a self-taught IT professional who earlier in his working life was a marketing professional employed by advertising agencies and film production houses in roles that included event marketing and in-film branding. Cass has five years’ experience in building large-scale web applications that can be modified to cater for increases in traffic and usage. He and his team use Ruby on Rails, the world's most popular web-programming framework, to accomplish the goals set by clients such as Golferholics.com

Nancy Stenton - Administration Manager is a third-generation member of a Gold Coast family. She is married to fellow Golferholic Tony Stenton, who arrived on the Gold Coast in 1967 and pioneered Queensland’s first carpet mill. After selling the mill in 1986, Nancy and Tony tried their hand at retiring but, not being golfers at that time, became bored and decided to form World Carpets, which has become a respected family business and employs more than 40 staff, including eight  family members. Nancy is co-owner and a director of World Carpets. She retired from an administrative role in 2000 after discovering golf.

Sue Lassen - Media Manager started her career in advertising account management in Sydney, before moving to the client side and working in product management in Sydney and then Brisbane. Sue returned to Sydney in the early 90s and spent 10 years as an account director at Enterprise Marketing, a specialist travel marketing company. She was also one of the founders of WAGA Golf, which ran golf tours all over the world for airline staff and their friends. Sue moved to the Gold Coast in 2005 and works as a freelance travel writer, a role which enables her to taste golf at a wide range of courses while mixing work with pleasure.

Paul Raye - Financial Controller is an accountant with 24 years’ experience in public practice. For the past 18 years he has been the principal of Melbourne-based PR accountants, which services a number of inter-state clients. His roles in the early part of his working career included as a project officer with the Department of Transport’s lighthouse service and then as an exhibition project officer with the Department of Trade. This latter role involved planning and implementing Australian trade shows and exhibitions around the world. He is a Collingwood Football Club member and his passion for sailing has seen him navigate the east of Australia over the past 24 years.

John Mulready - Manager - Golf Club Ratings was the founder of Conference Action, which today is one of the largest and most respected conference management companies in Australia. He began his working career with stock and station agency Winchcombe Carson in 1957 and in 1971 joined Merck Sharp and Dohme’s animal health division, later becoming national marketing manager. John founded Conference Action in 1984 and went on to hold key state and national posts in the conference industry. These roles included presidency of the Professionial Conference Management Association of Australia. John sold Conference Action in 2000 and retired to the Gold Coast to play golf.

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