Our people

Richard Parkes

Richard Parkes

Rick founded Rinova in 2010 as a social enterprise, and he remains as passionate as ever about client-focused partnership-working as being the key to success to delivering outstanding results in social, cultural and economic development …

Amanda Francis

Amanda Francis

Amanda Francis, Chief Executive of Rinova Ltd, has over 30 years experience in vocational education, employment and training and has a self proclaimed passion for ‘providing opportunities that enable people to achieve their full potential’.

Monica Aroma

Monica Aroma

Monica’s role at Rinova is to ensure the smooth running of the company’s operations, drawing upon her extensive project management experience in a variety of fields, having worked with Rick and his teams since 1998…

Trevor Burgess

Trevor Burgess

Trevor has thirty years experience of working within the creative industries in a broad variety of roles in the field of professional development, economic regeneration, fundraising, capacity building and enterprise development.

Sofia Leitão

Sofia is a Portuguese citizen, presently living in Cyprus where she has worked for over a decade in the Humanitarian sector on Research, Development and Project Management in the framework of international programmes such as REC and Erasmus+. Prior to this, she graduated in Sociology from Universidade do Porto and also holds a PhD in Media Studies and a Masters (MA) in Journalism Studies from the School of Journalism, Media & Culture at Cardiff University.

Our Team

With the benefit of many years of experience, backed up with the know-how, modelling and systems that come with it, Rinova has a team of over thirty staff and associates who are presently implementing a range of projects and contracts in the UK and internationally.