Rhianne’s a high flyer in the truest sense, having started her career at a helicopter company specialising in flights over the Great Barrier Reef.

Seeing one of nature’s great marvels firsthand (and learning about the reef’s fragility) left a lasting impression, and set her on a career trajectory that would re-focus on nature and conservation.

After a stint working for a family office’s aviation hangar in the UK, Rhianne worked for a charitable foundation specialising in arts and conservation. This provided the inspiration and headspace to start the first of her own ventures - an e-commerce company designing, producing and selling sustainable homewares.

Establishing her own prototyping studio gave Rhianne space in which she could finally bring her own ideas to life. From textile products to tableware she built up a high cadence of New Product Development (NPD), prototyping in-house and working with outsourced suppliers for production.

From learning to programme CNC lasers to personally selecting lumber from sawmills and digging into Fairtrade certifications of Indian cotton producers - she demanded the highest levels of verifiable sustainability throughout the entire supply chain, for every product. And continues to do so today!

Alongside her own homewares business Rhianne spun up a portfolio of clients within the conservation sector, offering a range of sales, marketing, communications and consulting services. Customers have included rewilding pioneers the Knepp Estate - where Rhianne oversaw marketing and communications for Isabella Tree, and work with a local ecology consultancy.

The Ecology Co-op’s entire communications effort is led by Rhianne, with an exit for the founder (to a Swedish venture capital fund) coming soon after she revamped the company’s web presence, collateral and external communications. She also led the successful submission of a winning bid for the company’s largest ever contract - with Historic Royal Palaces - which will see the team performing an array of surveys at iconic sites including the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace and Kensington Palace (a residence of the British royal family).