Board of Directors Queensland

Mark Lacy - President

Mark Lacy graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degree in 1987. He resides on the Gold Coast and is a partner of one of the Gold Coast’s largest law firms, Hickey Lawyers where he specialises in commercial and property law, and banking and finance matters. Mark has practised as a lawyer on the Gold Coast for 20 years.

Mark has held non executive positions on the boards of public listed and unlisted companies in Australia and New Zealand. He served as the Secretary of the Surfers Paradise Chamber of Commerce for over eight years. Mark became Chairman of Life Education in Queensland at the beginning of 2011. He joined the Queensland board four years ago.

Peter Morgan - Treasurer

Peter was introduced to Life Education in 1985 by Ron McMaster, one of his clients of his legal practice. Ron had met Ted Noffs in Sydney, and suggested opening a Centre in Queensland to spread the message of Life Education.

Peter was a founding member of the Management Committee in Queensland, and has served continuously since then.

He has worked as a Solicitor since 1979. He has been in Rotary for more than 20 years, and also during this time, has been a member of the Finance Board of one of the largest church congregations in Australia.

He is married with three grown up children, all of whom have experienced the Life Education programs. His interests include reading and tennis.

Jack Ray - Secretary

Jack joined the Qld Management Committee in 2010. Jack’s experience encompasses development management, residential sales and commercial leasing, having worked across some of Australia’s most successful masterplanned communities, including Salt Village, Mount Hotham, Casuarina Beach and Hope Island Resort.

Jack began his career with the Ray Group as a sales consultant at DP Village Mount Hotham in 2005 before overseeing the sell-out of Salt Village’s Southbeach precinct as Salt Village Real Estate Director of Sales 2006-2008.

In 2008 Jack took a position as Development Manager for the publicly listed Consolidated Properties Group, which included management and leasing of Consolidated’s Coles and Woolworths anchored shopping centres.

In early 2009 Jack re-joined the Ray Group as Head of Commercial and Retail to spearhead Salt Village’s final retail tenancy release. The role involves securing tenants to ensure a complementary retail mix and coordinating the fit out construction work of our current Salt Retail tenancies refurbishment.

Jack has a Bachelor of Business Law degree from Bond University.