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Staff Directory

Ed Mate
Executive Director/CEO


Bio

Kim Bussey
Manager of Administrative Services


Bio

Erin Gangloff
Chief Marketing Officer


Bio

Aaron Guereca
 Managing Director of Club & Facility Services


Bio

Ashley Harrell
 Chief Operating Officer


Bio

Lewis Harry
Director of Rules & Competitions


Bio

Hannah House
Manager of Member Engagement


Bio

Mark Kelbel
Director of Broadmoor Caddie & Leadership Academy


Bio

Aaron Kellough
 Director of Creative Services


Bio

Maddie Kern
Manager of Club & Facility Services


Bio

Kayla Kerns
Manager of Social Media & Video Content


Bio

Debbie Kolb
Director of Finance


Bio

Jorge Lopez
Development Manager

Bio

Joe McCleary
 Chief Business Officer


Bio

Kate Moore
Managing Director of Rules and Competitions


Bio

Emily Olson
 Director of Caddie Development


Bio

George Petrie
 Manager of Competitions


Bio

Cayla Regnery
Manager of Programs


Bio

Ryan Smith
Chief Development Officer,
CGF Executive Director


Bio

Tim Wimsatt
Director of Education & Grants

Bio

Ed Mate
Executive Director/CEO

Ed is a Denver native who grew up playing City Park Golf Course and caddying at Denver Country Club. He graduated from East High School in Denver and is a graduate of the University of Colorado where he attended college on a Chick Evans Caddie Scholarship. Ed received his Master’s Degree from the University of Colorado in 1995. Ed has worked in golf administration since first joining the CGA staff in 1985 and became executive director in 2000. Ed currently serves on the boards of the Colorado Open Golf Foundation and the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame. Ed previously served on the USGA Rules of Golf Committee where he contributed to the Rules of Golf Modernization initiative which led to the major rewrite to the code in 2019. Ed has served as a Rules Official at many national championships and tournaments including the U.S. Open and The Masters.

Kim Bussey
Manager Administrative Services

Kim Bussey joined the CGA staff in January 2019 as the Manager of Administrative Services.  After 32 years in the Commercial Insurance Industry, it was time for a change.  When a friend told her about the opening at CGA, she knew this was the change she was looking for.  Kim is new to the game of golf as a player but loves being out on the golf course and caddying for her husband.  Kim has been married to her high school sweetheart for 34 years and has 2 children.  She is very excited about this new opportunity and increasing her knowledge of golf.

Erin Gangloff
Chief Marketing Officer

Erin is a Colorado native who played golf for and graduated from Smoky Hill HS in Aurora. She then attended the University of Northern Colorado where she played on the women’s varsity golf team and earned her B. A. in Journalism. After graduating in 2005, Erin interned in Florida for the LPGA, then she worked for Clear Channel in promotions. Erin was hired by the Colorado Golf Association in January of 2007 as a PJ Boatwright Intern and joined the staff full-time that September as the Eisenhower-Evans Scholarship Recruiter. In 2011, she was named the Director of Youth Programs managing the CGA’s outreach programs, Evans Scholar oversight, and current fundraising efforts. In 2019, she became the Managing Director of Programs overseeing all CGA outreach programs and membership. In 2023, she was named Chief Marketing Officer overseeing CGA communications, marketing, and membership. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, especially for daughter!

Aaron Guereca
Managing Director of Club and Facility Services

Aaron is a Colorado native and grew up in North Denver. He started playing golf when he was 5 years old and grew up with the First Tee program. He attended East High School and graduated in 2009. He was a recipient of the Evans Scholarship and attended the University of Colorado, Boulder where he graduated with his BS in Integrative Physiology.

Besides working with the First Tee, he started his golf administration journey as a USGA Boatwright intern with the Colorado Women’s Golf Association in 2016 and has climbed the ranks to become the Managing Director of Club and Facility Services. In his free time, he enjoys collecting shoes, playing all sports but golf in particular, hanging out with his family and friends and enjoying a nice cocktail every now and then. His claim to fame is he played with Craig Stadler and placed third in the First Tee Open at Pebble Beach in 2008.

Ashley Harrell
Chief Operating Officer

Ashley got her start with the CGA as a summer intern in 2014. She grew up in small-town Kenmare, North Dakota where she learned to love golf on the local 9-hole course and enjoyed traveling to play the nearby sand green course with her family. Ashley graduated from the University of Jamestown in 2016 with a BA in Elementary Education and minors in Early Childhood Development and Business Administration while competing on the women’s golf team. In 2021 she completed her Masters in Nonprofit Management from Regis University. Ashley is a multi-sport athlete who is passionate about competition and finds incredible value in sport. She enjoys playing golf with her husband, Kory, going to the park with her daughter, Kyndal, watching sunsets, and eating Crumbl cookies.

LEWIS HARRY
Director of Rules and Competitions

Lewis is a native of Las Cruces, New Mexico and has been around the game of golf since an early age. A 2016 graduate of the PGA Golf Management Program from New Mexico State University with a BBA in Marketing, he was elected to PGA Membership in 2018. Before coming to the CGA, Lewis spent time with the Philadelphia PGA Section as a PGM intern and a full-time staff member, serving as the Junior Tour Director in his final years with the section. In December 2021, he joined the CGA team as the Director of Rules and Competitions, where his main responsibilities include CGA Men’s Championships & USGA Qualifiers and Rules of Golf education and digital content.

HANNAH HOUSE
Manager of Member Engagement

Hannah House is from Raleigh, North Carolina, and she comes from a long line of unexceptional golfers. She grew up a competitive swimmer before getting more into golf in high school, where she used to skip class to play (or watch) golf. Hannah continued her swimming career as a club athlete at the University of North Carolina, where she studied communication and exercise science. Pursuing a career in sports took Hannah to a variety of places after graduation, including time spent with CGA as a P.J. Boatwright Intern in 2021. Most recently she had been living in New Orleans, working as a Program Coordinator with First Tee – Greater New Orleans. Outside of work, Hannah enjoys reading, hiking, and watching Carolina basketball!

Mark Kelbel
Director of Broadmoor Caddie & Leadership Academy

Mark grew up in Harbor Springs, Michigan. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Michigan State University and a Masters Degree in Hospitality Management from Texas Tech. Mark has received many awards in the golf world including: 2015 Bill Strausbaugh award for mentoring, 2017 Colorado Golf Professional of the Year, and 2017 Community Hero Award in Colorado Springs. Before joining the CGA staff, Mark was the Broadmoor Head Golf Professional from 2001 to 2019. He has since Founded and been the Chairman of Fearless Golf and is a Board Member of the PGA Reach Colorado Section. Mark is a huge Pittsburgh Steelers fan. In his free time, you will find Mark fly fishing, hiking, or pursuing his pilot’s license.

Aaron Kellough

Director of Creative Services

A Colorado native (born in Aspen), Aaron graduated from Colorado State University in 1990 with a BA in Speech Communication. He joined the CGA in 1998, and now has a desk and a red stapler in the CGA utility closet. His Colorado golf media credentials include being a former golf talk show host in Denver (“In the Fairway” on 850 KOA, and then “Chip Shots” on 950 THE FAN). His radio career began (and some say should have ended) when he won the 1998 regional Dick Vitale Sound-alike Contest. Aaron has played golf since he was 10, and was a member of the Columbine High School varsity team his senior year. His love for the game, however, far exceeds his actual ability to play it. Aside from (or rather, in spite of) golf, Aaron is an accomplished dart player, pool player, and bowler. He has earned over 100 trophies and plaques over the years in these three sports, and has only earned ONE trophy in golf…a CGA State Championship trophy! Aaron and wife Kris have two children who will beat him in golf more often than not.

Maddie Kern
Manager of Club and Facility Services

Maddie is a Colorado native who partook in many sports growing up, even a State Champion in Women’s Basketball from Broomfield High School. She chose golf as her main sport heading into college. Maddie went to compete in Women’s Golf at Regis University where she received a BS in Business Marketing. After working as a CGA Tournament Operations Intern during the summer of her Senior year, she decided to pursue a golf career after college. She worked for Columbine Country Club as an Associate Golf Professional and at GOLFTEC as a Certified Personal Coach. Now, as the Manager of Club and Facility Services, she serves Colorado and Wyoming in all things WHS and Course Rating. In her free time, you can find her enjoying all the things that Colorado has to offer from the Western slopes to the Eastern plains.

Kayla Kerns
Social Media & Video Content Manager

Kayla grew up for half of her childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, and the other half in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. She started golfing at 14 years old on her high school golf team. Shortly after joining the golf team, she started her first job as a caddie at Big Foot Country Club in Fontana, Wisconsin. Her passion for the game of golf grew very quickly. With only 3 years of golf experience at the time, she qualified for the WIAA’s Division I Women’s State Golf Championship in the fall of 2018. She then achieved the Chick Evans Caddie Scholarship to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2019-2023. There, she studied Communications and Digital Media and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in May 2023. In the summer of 2022, Kayla utilized her skills in media and her passion for golf as a Digital Communications Intern for the Western Golf Association. There she gained experience capturing media content, creating graphics, writing press releases, and posting to social media platforms for several junior, amateur, Korn Ferry Tour, and PGA Tour events.

Debbie Kolb
Director of Finance

Debbie joined the staff of the Colorado Women’s Golf Association in June 2016 and came over to the Colorado Golf Association as part of the integration in 2018.  She took over as Manager of Finance in May 2018.  Golf became Debbie’s passion in the mid-80s.  She has been a member of and held various office positions for women’s leagues in AZ, MS, SC, and CO.  She is currently President of the Colorado State Senior’s Golf Association and is a member of the Saddle Rock Ladies’ Golf Association, CommonGround Women’s Golf Association and Aurora Working Women’s Association.  Debbie is grateful to have found the CGA and to work with a wonderful staff who all love the game of golf.

Jorge Lopez
Development Manager

Originally from Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, MX, I moved to Colorado at six and have called Denver home ever since. Currently a senior at Metropolitan State University of Denver, I’m pursuing a Bachelor’s in Marketing. I honed my skills as a marketing and sales intern for a staffing agency before stepping into a full-time role in business development. Now, I’m the Development Manager for the Colorado Golf Association, focusing on fundraising operations and content creation. Beyond work, I’m passionate about classic Colorado activities like hiking and paddle boarding, and I love showcasing my photography on my Instagram page.

Joe McCleary
Chief Business Officer

Joe is a certified golf course superintendent. He grew up in Lawrence, Kansas. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from Kansas State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Colorado, Denver. As the Director of Business Operations, Joe provides oversight for human resources, information technology, office infrastructure and financial operations. Joe has been active nationally on many Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) committees, is a past President of the Rocky Mountain Golf Course Superintendents Association, superintendent at Saddle Rock Golf Course for 17 years and was a CGA volunteer for 14 years.

Kate Moore
Managing Director of Rules and Competitions

Kate Moore joined the staff of the Colorado Women’s Golf Association in  January 2016 as the Manager, of Tournament Administration and Member Programs. Kate came from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida where she worked for the Executive Women’s Golf Association (EWGA) as the Member Programs Assistant. Kate first began with the EWGA in 2013 as the USGA P.J. Boatwright Intern.

Originally from Shepparton, Australia Kate came to the US on a women’s golf scholarship to the University of Cincinnati where she majored in Health Sciences. She has also completed a Master’s of Science in Sport Management from the University of Southern Mississippi, where she was the graduate assistant for the women’s golf program. She is excited to start a new chapter in her life, in the beautiful state of Colorado.

Emily Olson
Director of Caddie Development

Emily grew up in Kansas City but came out to Denver in 2003 to attend The University of Denver. She was a member of the golf team all four years at DU and graduated in 2007 with a Communications Major. After graduation, she worked in radio sales for a year and a half at Clear Channel. It didn’t take her long to realize she missed being around the game of golf and in 2009 she was hired by the CGA as their P.J. Boatwright Intern. Unfortunately once her internship was done with the CGA they did not have an opening on their staff for her so she went and worked on the 2010 Senior PGA Championship, where she was in charge of Hospitality Sales. Once the Senior PGA Championship was completed, Emily went to work for the City of Denver and The First Tee of Denver. In October of 2011, a position with the CGA opened up and Emily was brought on as The Evans Scholar Recruiter.

George Petrie
Manager of Competitions

Originally from Rutland, England, George grew up playing competitive junior golf with his twin brother, where he played in several junior national championships. He then went on to attend Rutgers University, where he studied Political Science. During the summers, while home in England, he got his first taste of the golf industry when he worked in the R&A’s Player Services department at the 149th and 150th Opens.

After graduating from Rutgers in 2022, George was a long-term intern for the USGA, specializing in their Amateur Championships. Over the summer, he worked in the USGA office helping on the pre-season administrative side before going on-site at 4 Championships to gain more experience with the running of Championships and Rules. It was during this time, George got his first taste of Denver, spending 2 weeks at the 2023 US Amateur and meeting several CGA staff for the first time. George’s time with the USGA concluded in September and after a short stint in Australia working at the Asia-Pacific Amateur, he moved out to Colorado to begin with the CGA.

Cayla Regnery
Manager of Programs

Cayla is a Chicago, IL native who grew up playing Golf at the local 9-hole course with her dad. Cayla went on to play for the Women’s Basketball team at the University of Southern Indiana where she received her BA in Elementary Education and Special Education. Cayla pursued her teaching degree after college and was an Elementary School teacher for six years. In her spare time post-college, Cayla picked up golf again and made strong connections with the Evans Scholar Foundation along the way. Since moving to Colorado, you can find Cayla hiking, skiing, or working on her short game.

Ryan D. Smith
Chief Development Officer,
CGF Executive Director

Ryan is a 3rd generation Colorado native and proud Colorado State University graduate of the College of Business. As the Chief Development Officer, Ryan oversees the CGA’s marketing, communications and fundraising efforts in support of the Association’s community and member programming. Ryan also serves as the Director of Development for the Colorado Golf Foundation. Ryan brings more than 18 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations, having served most recently as the Director of Development and Communications for Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver.

Tim Wimsatt
Director of Education & Grants

Tim is originally from the barbecue capital of the world, Owensboro, Kentucky, and was a multi-sport all-state athlete (baseball and football) but found some time at the local municipal golf course down the road from his childhood home as his golf introduction. After high school, he continued his athletic career at the University of Kentucky before transferring and graduating from Kentucky Wesleyan College in 2010 with a degree in History and Secondary Education.

Since 2010, Tim has taught five different high school subjects (U.S./World History, Government, Economics, Sociology) pursued a coaching career in two different countries and multiple different states, completed two different master’s degrees (Teacher Leadership – Univ. of the Cumberlands, 2016 and Educational Administration – Western Kentucky University, 2019), and been both a middle and high school administrator. Through it all, working with young people to help them achieve their goals and aspirations has always been Tim’s passion, and he is excited to continue that work with the CGA in this new role.

In his free time, Tim loves to get out on the golf course (much more regularly these days), as well as going camping, hiking, fishing, snowboarding, and enjoying quiet evenings watching the colorful Colorado sunset.