Meet the Team
B-Alternative is a grassroots, environmental consultancy group shaking things up for a more sustainable, planet-positive future! We are based in Australia and are a part of a global community of conservationists, environmentalists and change-makers.
Jason Rahilly
Founder & Director
An entrepreneurial spirit at heart, building businesses is in Jace's blood. He started his first official business, a personal training company, at 17, before moving into carpentry at 22 after an early football career. Jace's love for animals and frustration with plastic pollution lead to the birth of B-Alternative, of which he is the passionate founder, director and visionary.
James McLennan
General Manager
James lives and breathes environmental conservation, preservation and regeneration. A trained outdoor educator, he strives to promote environmental awareness and sustainable living through facilitation, inspiration, community engagement and curiosity. James lives a low-impact, connected life with his young family on Victoria's Surf Coast.
Tim Landells
Impact Manager
tim.landells@b-alternative.com
A passionate environmentalist from a young age, Tim always felt like he needed to have more of a positive impact on our planet. He is inspired to offset planetary impacts of overpopulation through sustainable resource management and consumption. Tim is an environmental scientist, musician and surfer living a coastal life with his partner in QLD.
Amy Tobin
Events Project Manager
Driven by passion and her connection to mother earth, Amy became acutely aware of the negative impact that humans have on biodiversity and climate change when she studied and began travelling the world and learning about how different cultures live and work. She lives a minimalist low waste lifestyle and shares her sustainability journey along her travels.
Max Di Petta
Engagement Manager
Max grew up in Melbourne and was introduced to our planet's varied and beautiful landscapes with many trips across Australia. She’s studying her Master of Environment with a focus on climate change mitigation and sustainability strategies for businesses. She’s striving to educate and make positive change at the tertiary level by teaching environmental education.
Breanna Mann
People Person
support@b-alternative.com
Breanna has a great passion for personal sustainability in terms of physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing enhanced through the practice of meditation and conscious living. She has worked in many fields throughout her career including animal welfare and zero waste food supply and has completed studies in the field of Human Rights and Politics.
Katrina Lee
Communications Coordinator
Katrina grew up in Melbourne and has lived in Malaysia and London. She brings a science and education background and has a thirst for knowledge, which she quenches with podcasts and YouTube videos. Kat is passionate about widespread system-level change and is working towards intertwining this with ground-level individual and community action.
Sarah Illic
Accounts Manager
Sarah grew up on the Peninsula with her family and from the get go was an outdoors and sport fanatic with a passion for helping others.She has always been compassionate and driven with a can do attitude with everything that comes her way so she started working in customer service, where she strives on communication and establishing a connection with anyone she meets.