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Behind the Gates

by Ed Chapman & Michael Herd
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About the show

Join us for wide-ranging conversations with guests from around the world as we approach every topic with Private Club management and leadership. Who are your hosts? Ed Chapman, CCM, PGA - a Club hospitality professional and current CEO of Royal Auckland & Grange Golf Club in New Zealand, who has worked in four countries on three continents over the past 20 years in Clubs. Michael Herd - one of the industry's leading recruiters, Head of International Search & Consulting for Kopplin Kuebler & Wallace, and Club aficionado who has placed some of the best managers at some of the most distinguished Clubs in the world. If you enjoy listening then please join your peers by subscribing through your favourite podcast listening app and leave a review to help others with similar interests find this show more easily. FOLLOW https://behindthegates.riverside.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/behindthegatespodcast