Family Enterprise Centre

Rhian-Anwen Hamill is the Director of the Family Enterprise Centre at London Business School and the Managing Partner, RAH Partners Ltd. Rhian-Anwen is a respected speaker, convenor and facilitator at family business events. She also works with a small number of international families and their family offices/operating businesses as an experienced family business advisor.

As a thought leader in the family enterprise space, she writes on a wide range of issues affecting families, including coaching for succession planning, family office recruitment, and women in family enterprise. Her work has been published in Family Capital, Globe Law and Business, and STEP’s Family Office Journals.

She spent over 20 years immersed in financial and professional services, starting her career at Goldman Sachs and since 2005, in her own leadership advisory and coaching firm, RAH Partners. She has also operated at board/C suite level in the world of arts and philanthropy.

She is a Vice President of the Hay on Wye Festival of Literature and a Director of Cool Bananas, a Zambia-based family food business. Previously she was a member of the External Affairs Committee of UWC Atlantic College, Chair of The Word, a literature festival at London’s SouthBank Centre, and a Member of the Development Appeal at St George’s Chapel, Windsor. Rhian-Anwen spent the first phase of her career in investment banking in the Equities divisions of Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers co-ordinating delivery of strategic advice and equity research to some of the world’s largest asset management businesses, working in both primary and secondary public markets. She then co-led the establishment of a £125m world class national opera house and arts centre for Wales, the Wales Millennium Centre, taking it from initial idea to the final design and construction phase in close liaison with varied stakeholders, public and private.

A Certified Leadership Coach and Family Business Advisor (Meyler Campbell, The Tavistock Institute, The Kets de Vries Institute and is an EMCC Accredited Coach), Rhian-Anwen has a BA in English Literature from Cambridge. She is culturally flexible, speaks several languages and has lived or worked in EMEA (UK, Spain, Switzerland, France, Nordics), USA, Africa (Zambia) and Asia (Singapore, India).

Rhian-Anwen works internationally and is based in West London with her husband Michael Hamill, a barrister and mediator, and her two teenage children.