
Who's Who
Founding Partners

Gaynor Coley
Gay was one of the Founding Directors at the award-winning Eden Project, leaving her role as Finance Director at the University of Plymouth to lead the £140m funding, designing the social enterprise structure and delivering the capital build.
As Managing Director for 13 years, she pioneered local sourcing and an event and exhibition programme that attracted over 15m visitors and contributed over £1.5bn to the local economy.
Gay has over 30 years’ experience in leisure and education, including re-launching the gardens at RBG Kew as Director of Public Programmes and Chairing the Board of the inland Surf experience at The Wave, Bristol.

Susan Hill
Susan was the Marketing Director at the Eden Project for 3 years, leading all campaigns and the successful ‘Green Talent’ programme that engaged young people in environmental issues.
Susan has 30 years’ experience in marketing, including Head of Operations at People Tree Fair Trade Fashion, Marketing Director for Weststar Holidays working on the board alongside Deborah Meaden, as well as numerous interim and consultancy roles including managing a £10m budget at Victor Chandler International, developing and executing campaigns for Theatre Royal Plymouth, Wakehurst Place, Wildworks Theatre, The Wave and for the new immersive Wake-the-Tiger experience in Bristol.
We've done it before
We have worked in many areas, but our speciality is designing, developing and building visitor experiences and destinations that entertain and educate.
We use fun, humour, arts, crafts, technology, science, scale and beauty to engage audiences, nurture curiosity and encourage participation. Our visitor experiences are underpinned by storytelling to create connections which last and we have had the pleasure of working on and with some of the best organisations in the sector.

Eden Project
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The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

The Wave, Bristol

Powderham Castle

Iain Shearer
Property Advisor

Tate + Co
Architects

Gaunt Francis
Architects

Ward Williams Associates
Quantity Surveyors

The Invisible Circus
Creative Build & Concept Development

Hey! What?
Brand & Communications

Ollie Francis
CGI

Torfaen County Borough

Funded by UK Government
The Xanadoo Team
& Supporters
The professional team assisting the co-founders in further developing the proposal and contributing to the work of this feasibility study are: