Our Founders

Steve Douglas has over 30 years of experience in business management systems

Steve Douglas

As co-founder of Empire Software, Steve brings over 30 years of experience in taxation, business accounting, property & financial services.

Steve began his career with Ernst Young in 1984 and established a private taxation practice in 1988 specialising in small business taxation and management. He is a Fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia and a Registered Tax Agent.

A regular presenter on Taxation matters affecting property investors, expatriates and intended migrants, Steve has delivered seminars on behalf of many industry organisations and developers including the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia and Australian Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong. In addition he has been active in submissions to the Government on tax issues affecting property investors and expatriates.

Steve has been featured in articles by the Singapore Business Times, South China Morning Post, Australian Entrepreneur Magazine, Benchmark, Western Australian Property & Investment and Property Link magazine. In 2009, Steve was recognised as one of the leading 50 Australians in Asia by Advance and invited to participate in the Advance Asia 50 Summit and in 2010 was awarded the Singapore Austcham Entrepreneur Award and in 2017 Steve was The Finders “Expatreneur Awardee 2017”.

Taki Xaftellis has over 30 years of experience in building business management systems

Taki Xaftellis

Taki is co-founder and Director of Empire Software and brings 30 years of experience within the Information Technology industry and is the driving force behind the strategic technical direction for the company.

Taki has held a range of executive positions and has a proven track record in successfully delivering projects in the public and private sector over a diverse range of industries.

Taki holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Information Science.

We have over 25 years of practical experience across a diverse range of industries and jurisdictions, including:

Brands that trust us

Streamline and automate workflows from client activities to staff communications, across business divisions, saving your business time and resources.

EL&EL Group
Griffin Group
Norup+Wilson
NSW Investment Properties
SMATS Group
True North Properties

Testimonials

The Griffin Group has been a user of CompleteEmpire for a number of years and we are delighted to say that the journey has been a very successful one.

The team have worked with us on our needs at each step of the way to ensure we understand and utilise all of the software’s features and benefits.

As a business we have found the software to be ideal for the integration of all our divisions and the training and support has also been very focused on our business’ needs.

We still have a way to go, however, all of the team are now on the journey. The team’s passion for CompleteEmpire and dedication to ensure we enjoy its benefits has been very helpful.

Griffin Group
Managing Director

Our experience with CompleteEmpire has been very positive, the software easily streamlines tasks and allows us to customise our processes to suit our needs, allowing my business to be more efficient with day-to-day activities.

Specialist Mortgage
Director of Finance

During the past few years we have made significant progress in using CompleteEmpire to improve our internal business processes. It has been a robust, customizable and reliable solution.

The software’s functionality, flexibility and support has enabled us to efficiently automate our business processes, become more efficient with managing client relationships and improve performance and quality control, all whilst maintaining the highest level of data integrity.

CompleteEmpire’s commitment to provide the best product possible is continuously proven through regular improvements, added features, and a genuine openness to user feedback.

Griffin Group
Head of Integration & Efficiency