Experience

LGT Crestone Wealth Management Limited

• Australia
• Financial Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Partner & Investment Adviser

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  Rachel is a sustainable investment specialist. She joined Crestone in 2019 with a mission to drive the sustainable investment agenda, having previously been working with a large impact investment orientated Australian family. In addition to her activity at a firm-wide level, she works closely with her clients – individuals, family offices and non-profits - helping them navigate the rapidly-evolving and often complex area of sustainable investment with her characteristic energy, dedication and knowledge. She prides herself on remaining at the forefront of the sector, separating the credible from the ‘greenwash’ and demonstrating that sustainable investment is central to enduring financial returns.



Future Super

• Australia
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Non Executive Director

  • Nov 2019 - Nov 2020

  NED of Future Super - Australia's first fossil fuel free super fund. (Resigned after my first term to focus on my sustainable investment advice business at Crestone Wealth Management). NED of Future Super - Australia's first fossil fuel free super fund. (Resigned after my first term to focus on my sustainable investment advice business at Crestone Wealth Management).



5 Pillars Capital & Kilara Capital

• Senior Adviser

  • Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

  Senior Advisor to: 5 Pillars Capital - the impact investment driven third generation family office of Cassy Liberman and Ben Krasnostein. 5PC invests in big ideas creating a better future. Kilara Capital - a deal originator and investment manager leading the development of a more resilient, regenerative, safe and ecologically responsible food and agricultural system. Senior Advisor to: 5 Pillars Capital - the impact investment driven third generation family office of Cassy Liberman and Ben Krasnostein. 5PC invests in big ideas creating a better future. Kilara Capital - a deal originator and investment manager leading the development of a more resilient, regenerative, safe and ecologically responsible food and agricultural system.



Rachel Etherington Investment (property specialism)

• Founder

  • Aug 2015 - Nov 2019

  Rachel worked with the Family Offices of her US-based Private Equity and Venture Capital partners, with a particular focus on identifying and structuring unique residential property deals. Rachel worked with the Family Offices of her US-based Private Equity and Venture Capital partners, with a particular focus on identifying and structuring unique residential property deals.



Consultant

• Sustainability/family office adviser

  • Jan 2008 - Jul 2016

  Working closely with private investors/family offices with a focus on the intersection of business and environmental sustainability. “Rachel is one of the most accomplished, driven and competent people I have ever worked with. She is fiercely intelligent, strategic and incisive. She is quick to grasp concepts, and has a great ability to order a multifaceted issue into the elements of priority for action. She also has an amazing capacity to project herself, to communicate her argument and to get her listener to respond positively. Her energy is contagious.” Alastair Lucas, AO - Chairman Goldman Sachs Australia (1952-2015) “Etherington is a star. She combines imagination and discipline – two capacities not often found in the same human being. She has started, grown and led organisations; she has worked with boards, calmed prima donnas, helped young people stretch and grow; she ranges across the spectrum of stance and style from pragmatic to visionary, from bold to careful, from analytic to empathetic. If I were putting together a new team to address a large and difficult challenge, she would be my first call.” Peter Goldmark, Former President, Rockefeller Foundation, Former CEO, International Herald Tribune "Rachel has that rare ability as a leader to excel in strategic vision, results-driven focus and people leadership. She is extremely engaging and will proactively search for the ground truth in any issue. She is incisive and inclusive. Her energy and focus is unbounded and her support - in a professional and personal capacity - is invaluable". Leslie Livesay - Engineering and Science Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory “Rachel is the right combination of fearless, passionate and determined, yet wise and generous. She's got a lot to teach all of us who search for a balanced perspective on our leadership and potential". Debbie Klein, Chair of Engine



Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member of the Board of Directors

  • Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

  Board Member with overall fiduciary responsibility. Other responsibilities involved thought leadership, membership development, ambassadorial duties, stewardship. Board Member with overall fiduciary responsibility. Other responsibilities involved thought leadership, membership development, ambassadorial duties, stewardship.



AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO

  • Apr 2014 - May 2015

  Founding CEO of AltaSea, a groundbreaking $250m innovation and sustainability centre based at the Port of Los Angeles. Rachel worked to bring together science, business, and education to generate sustainable solutions to the world's most pressing problems: food, water and energy security. Founding CEO of AltaSea, a groundbreaking $250m innovation and sustainability centre based at the Port of Los Angeles. Rachel worked to bring together science, business, and education to generate sustainable solutions to the world's most pressing problems: food, water and energy security.



Fauna & Flora

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Founders' Board member

  • Nov 2008 - Nov 2014

  Founder and lifetime member of this FFI Board, which pioneered innovative market-driven solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss.Testimonial from FFI Global CEO "Rachel is driven by achievement and is not afraid to take on ambitious challenges. She’s highly intelligent and is an invaluable partner in assimilating difficult strategic concepts and then communicating them in an understandable manner. She has tremendous energy and gives 100% to all she does. She inspires and motivates everyone around her and works hard to get the best out of people. I have seen first-hand the catalytic role she can play in others’ lives".Mark Rose, CEO, Fauna & Flora International

• Founding Director

  • Nov 2008 - Nov 2010

  Founder of the Australian branch of the global organisation, Rachel led its launch focusing on innovative environmental finance mechanisms and the valuation of natural capital. She pioneered the Natural Value Initiative, which helped institutional investors understand and manage the biodiversity risk and opportunity of their investments. Through a JV with Macquarie Bank, she worked closely with Oliver Yates, Head of Environmental Markets, championing unique initiatives including a carbon credit project.



Blue Marine Foundation

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Jul 2011 - Jul 2014

  Consultant turned inaugural Managing Director. Responsible for the successful establishment and expansion of BLUE, which aims to use private sector mechanisms (e.g. sustainable fisheries) to protect and manage ocean resources sustainably. Consultant turned inaugural Managing Director. Responsible for the successful establishment and expansion of BLUE, which aims to use private sector mechanisms (e.g. sustainable fisheries) to protect and manage ocean resources sustainably.



Climate Friendly

• Australia
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Director

  • Apr 2011 - Apr 2012

  NED for Climate Friendly, which was - and is - a pioneer in carbon farming/credits. She resigned from the position on relocation to the UK. NED for Climate Friendly, which was - and is - a pioneer in carbon farming/credits. She resigned from the position on relocation to the UK.