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Rhian-Anwen Hamill’s Biography

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Rhian-Anwen Hamill is a Business Advisor and Coach with a special interest in, and deep experience of, Family Enterprise.

Rhian worked in executive search for over 18 years as the Founder of RAH Partners, the leading European search firm in wealth and family office. She has a broad range of skills/experience; search, communications, organisation transformation, commercial/advisory experience, coaching, and blue chip banking (Goldman Sachs, Salomon Brothers). She was educated first at Cambridge University and later at the Tavistock Centre, Kets de Vries Institute, INSEAD and Meyler Campbell, with a specialist focus on family owned businesses.

Twenty years seeking the best talent has left Rhian an expert in people and all their complexity. She has moved from just selecting to developing individuals and their organisations, critiquing not just strengths and weaknesses but helping clients find potential for growth and change by being true to themselves, understanding their purpose and finding authenticity in the systems within which they operate. She listens actively and guides... Rhian-Anwen Hamill is a Business Advisor and Coach with a special interest in, and deep experience of, Family Enterprise.

Rhian worked in executive search for over 18 years as the Founder of RAH Partners, the leading European search firm in wealth and family office. She has a broad range of skills/experience; search, communications, organisation transformation, commercial/advisory experience, coaching, and blue chip banking (Goldman Sachs, Salomon Brothers). She was educated first at Cambridge University and later at the Tavistock Centre, Kets de Vries Institute, INSEAD and Meyler Campbell, with a specialist focus on family owned businesses.

Twenty years seeking the best talent has left Rhian an expert in people and all their complexity. She has moved from just selecting to developing individuals and their organisations, critiquing not just strengths and weaknesses but helping clients find potential for growth and change by being true to themselves, understanding their purpose and finding authenticity in the systems within which they operate. She listens actively and guides senior people to make good decisions and avoid pitfalls as individuals and commercial and family collectives. Establishing authentic and effective leadership by fair processes within a family business can be hard when there are large shoes to fill, a deep heritage and rapidly changing requirements, including from generational shareholders. Rhian is committed to using non-directive processes, enabling, unlocking, harnessing and energising family systems, often in a multi-generational environment, to personal, commercial and stakeholder advantage.

Rhian’s interests include:

• Succession planning and “retirement” guidance from a human perspective
• Next generation step-up coaching
• Women in family businesses
• Career counselling
• Organisation structures
• Board preparation
• Family dynamics and management across multiple generations and linked families moreless

Rhian-Anwen Hamill’s Newsfeed

The Telegraph

Crackdown on directors could backfire - just ask the City banks

Rhian-Anwen Hamill, the managing director of RAH Partners, said the senior managers regime "absolutely put very good people off" in both executive and non-executive roles after it was introduced.

Rhian-Anwen Hamill’s Background

Rhian-Anwen Hamill

Leadership Advisor & Business Coach

2022 - Present

Rhian brings her talents and skills honed over 20 years of working with people and their work to her business coaching consultancy.

RAH Partners

Managing Director

2005 - Present

London, UK

In 2005, RAH Partners was co-founded by Rhian-Anwen Hamill and Michael Hamill. RAH Partners is an Executive Search and Consulting firm which practises exclusively in wealth and asset management.

Cool Bananas

Director

2014 - Present

Ndola, ZM

Cool Bananas is a business of agricultural production with a 150-hectare Banana and Citrus plantation outside Ndola, Zambia.

The Rose Partnership

Head of Wealth and Asset Management

2004 - 2005

London, UK

The Rose Partnership was founded in 1981 and focused on investment banking, wealth management, asset management, private equity, capital markets as well as retail financial services and risk across European, Middle Eastern, African, Asia-Pacific and Russian markets.

Korn Ferry / Whitehead Mann

2001 - 2004

London, UK

Whitehead Mann was founded in the 1970s, based in London. In 2009, Whitehead Mann was acquired by Korn Ferry, which was a US based executive search firm. Now Korn Ferry is present in over 50 countries with over 100 offices.

Brunswick Group

Associate Partner

1998 - 1999

London, UK

Established in London in 1987, Brunswick Group has grown organically since it started and now has over 40 partners and over 125 client handlers. It has a global outlook and their integrated offer consists of corporate communications, strategic planning, financial communications, public affairs, employee engagement and crisis and cyber.

Salomon Brothers (now part of Citi)

Vice President, UK Equity Sales

1995 - 1996

London, UK

Salomon Brothers was founded in 1910 and became known as one of the largest Wall Street investment banks. Later in 1997 Salomon Brothers merged with a subsidiary of Travelers group. The new bank, Salomon Smith Barney then promptly merged with Citigroup to support and serve as the investment banking department and in 2003 the name Citigroup was acquired.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Vice President, European Equity Sales

1989 - 1995

London, UK

Goldman Sachs is an American multinational finance company that engages in global investment banking, investment management, securities and other financial services.

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Other Business Interests

Hay on Wye Festival of Literature

Vice President

Hay-on-Wye, UK

Hay Festival is a festival celebrating literature and arts over the course of 10 days In May and June. Previous speakers include Stephen Fry as well as other well-known authors and comedians.

UWC Atlantic College

Member, External Affairs Committee

Llantwit Major, UK

Atlantic College is an independent residential Sixth Form College in South Wales for an international IB Diploma Programme.

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Previous Board Positions

The Wales Millennium Centre

Board Member

Jul 2006 - May 2007

Cardiff, UK

The Wales Millennium Centre was first opened in 2004, later completed in 2009 and is based in Cardiff. The centre is a world class national opera house, created to celebrate art and performance, with musicals such as Matilda and Les Misérables.

Current Advisory Roles

Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion

Advisor

Oxford, UK

Rhian’s role as an advisor to The Dalai Lama Centre for Compassion includes supporting the DLCC’s mission to strengthen its sustainability, and to help create the foundations for long-term success.

Media

Women in Family Offices

Contributor

Feb 2021

Rhian worked with Family Capital to produce this report on Women in Family Offices. To read her article on the survey’s findings, please see page 14 of the report.

Family Capital

Family office recruitment - what's important

Jan 2019

Rhian-Anwen Hamill writes that to recruit for family offices or family-owned organisations can be complicated, often more complicated than the recruitment for the biggest non-family businesses. But it is invariably more interesting. And, for the specialist provider, usually more rewarding.

Awards & Endorsements

The Family 100 Influencers

The Family 100 | Executive Search

Aug 2020

Family Capital have included Rhian-Anwen Hamill of RAH Partners in their list of the Top 100 most influential people in the family enterprise world. Rhian is described as bringing “real professional heft to the recruitment world for family enterprises”.

Spear's 500

The Spear's 500 | Recruitment Consultants

London, UK

The Spear’s 500 is a comprehensive guide to the top 500 individuals across the whole spectrum of wealth management for HNWs, from private banking to recruitment consultants. Rhian-Anwen Hamill has featured in both the 2019 and 2020 guides.