About

Fiona founded Greyhope Bay in late 2015 with the ambition to connect and engage communities with the marine wildlife, environment and heritage on Aberdeen’s doorstep.

Fiona is purpose driven and leads Greyhope Bay as Chief Executive by rooting the project in its core values of community empowerment, collaboration and inspiring change.

Fiona has successfully built a team around her and mobilised a community behind Greyhope Bay.

Fiona is an accomplished social entrepreneur, communicator, strategist and marine research scientist.

Fiona is available for speaking at fiona.mcintyre@greyhopebay.org.uk

Gokay Deveci has worked with Fiona since the early conceptual stages of the project, as early as 2013. Gokay has understood Fiona’s ambition for the project in terms of place making and the impact of creating a building with meaning.

Gokay’s design influence has been led by how we can create a building with resilience, a build project owned by the community that can adapt and last in changing economic, social and cultural circumstances.

Gokay holds a professorial chair at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment at the Robert Gordon University.

He has an international reputation for his expertise in affordable and sustainable low energy housing.

Rachel joined Greyhope Bay in June 2022 as our engagement and learning officer. She has taken the reigns in developing outdoor learning and an engaging school's programme at the Greyhope Bay Centre.

Rachel has an extensive background in visitor engagement roles and spent 6 years working as a fish keeper in public aquariums, where she specialised in working with animals native to the UK. Rachel always loved showing visitors how incredible the wildlife on our doorstep is and Greyhope Bay is a brilliant example of this! Rachel is looking forward to bringing her experience to our education programme and continuing to foster connections between people and Aberdeen's wildlife.

Natalia has collaborated with Fiona since 2017 supporting her to understand and communicate the true drivers and story of Greyhope Bay.

She has supported the Greyhope Bay team in designing a new way of fundraising based on their values and story  that allowed the project to take off.

Natalia continues to work with Greyhope Bay  in communication and  supporting peoples’ engagement by putting co-creation and participaton at the core of Greyhope capacity and facilities expansion in Phase 2.

James joined the Greyhope Bay team in summer 2019 with the aim of supporting our rebrand,  website development and graphic design work.

James immediately understood the ethos and values of Greyhope Bay and has used his creative design skills to tell our story through thoughtful design, identity, print and even handmade ceramics.

He travels between Glasgow & Aberdeenshire and regularly supports Greyhope Bay with authentic creative ideas in both our communications and operational strategy.