About BHS

Brett Horley

Founding Partner

Brett is a private safari guide with FGASA Level III and SKS Birding qualifications. He has an innate ability to identify his guests’ safari dreams and taps into a unique set of resources and private network to make those dreams a reality. He has vast experience across Africa and travels to some of the most unique destinations and habitats in search of the rarest species on (and off) the continent.

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James Gilmour

Partner: Marketing & Business Development

James has nearly two decades of marketing and brand building experience which - coupled with a deep passion for the safari industry and particular enthusiasm for searching for the white lions of Kruger - makes him an exciting addition to the executive team at BHS.

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Chloë Lindenberg

Brand Culture & Impact Manager

After starting her career as a Copywriter, Chloë realised the true power of storytelling lies in connecting people with nature and shared values. Today, as Brand Culture & Impact Manager at BHS, she leads the company’s brand messaging, internal culture, and impact initiatives. Having traveled extensively with BHS, from gorilla trekking in Uganda and snorkelling Lake Malawi to climbing Namibian dunes and gliding through the Okavango Delta in a mokoro, she brings her deep love for wildlife and conservation directly into the heart of the business.

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Maki Shahali

Operations Manager

Maki has a passion for travel and connecting with people, and she’s made her career out of combining those two passions. Originally from Paris, she followed her heart to Africa where she has lived, explored, and scuba-dived the continent from Togo to Tanzania and Mozambique. Maki’s extensive travel experience and enthusiasm for wildlife tourism have her exceptionally equipped to book your journey.

Jo Cooper

Senior Travel Designer

Jo has spent over a decade on the red, dusty roads as a safari guide and intra-African tour planner. Having seen more African border crossings than most, Jo has extensive operational experience and knowledge of the safari landscape in Southern and East Africa and the equatorial forests inhabited by the Great Apes. His unshakeable passion for the raw and rich nature of Africa and Africans is entirely contagious, and his burning urge to share this magic with the world leads our sales team in creating safari experiences that speak to the heart.

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Alie Guilmette

Social Media Community Manager

Alie is a content creator and digital marketing specialist with a background in branding, photography, and social media strategy. At BHS, she manages the brand’s online presence, from building a consistent voice to creating content that connects with and inspires our community. With experience across marketing and visual storytelling, she brings both creativity and strategy to her role, ensuring BHS’s social media channels reflect the energy and purpose behind every safari.

Lizette Griffith

Senior Travel Designer

Lizette’s love for wildlife began during her childhood in Mtunzini, KwaZulu-Natal, where family weekends in game reserves sparked a connection to the bush. Since then, her curiosity has taken her across Africa and beyond, from Kenya and Tanzania to Jordan, Bali and Australia. Fluent in English and Afrikaans, Lizette brings warmth, enthusiasm and a genuine love of people to her work in tourism. She believes meaningful travel broadens our perspective by connecting us with different cultures, landscapes and ways of life. With extensive travel experience and a deep appreciation for Southern Africa, Lizette enjoys helping others create meaningful and memorable adventures.

Geraldine Morelli

Safari Consultant

A French native, Geraldine created a life she loves in South Africa after a life-changing trip to Kenya 20 years ago. The power of safari and her innate affection for animals ignited a calling to help conserve the vulnerable species and habitats in the wild. Geraldine traded in her corporate career in London to focus on her soul work, and her natural ability to communicate, relate, and connect with people triggered a career in planning and executing life-changing safaris for others. She continues to explore, discover, fall in love, and share the magic in her work.

Rhalda Worth

Finance Officer

Keeping the financial heart of the operation running smoothly, Rhalda brings calm precision to the rhythm of safari life. With a strong background in financial management and operational structure, she ensures everything behind the scenes flows seamlessly. Beyond the numbers, Rhalda has spent much of her life living and working in the bush. An equestrian with an ocean soul and a proud mom of three, she brings quiet resilience, warmth, and a deep love for wild spaces into everything she does. Her approach to work mirrors her approach to life - practical, grounded, and driven by a sincere passion for Africa and the people who protect it.

Charlotte Elizabeth

Content Creator

Charlotte has lived and breathed safaris since moving from the U.S. to South Africa in 2016. As a passionate photographer and content creator for BHS, she is dedicated to capturing the magic of the safari experience. Through her content, Charlotte showcases how each destination and lodge is unique and wonderful in its own way, helping our community discover the places that feel just right for them. It's her aim to inspire experiential safari travel and connect people to the wild.

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Mariska Kirton

Travel and Support Administrator

A hospitality professional with over 14 years of lodge experience, I’m passionate about creating experiences that connect people to the wild. After returning to Hoedspruit in 2023 to balance bush life with motherhood, I joined the BHS team in October 2024 - bringing heart, warmth, and deep local knowledge to everything I do.

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Manijeh Shahali

Operations Coordinator

Originally from France, Manijeh has called South Africa home for the past five years after falling in love with its landscapes, wildlife and bush lifestyle. With a superpower for organisation and a serious eye for detail, she’s the person you want when there’s a list to make or something to organise. When she’s not keeping everything running smoothly, you’ll find her enjoying good food and a proper apéro, planning her next adventure, or completely absorbed in a puzzle. For Manijeh, life is a happy mix of bush adventures, good food and the good life.

As a company, BHS Safari Company strives to make a positive impact through our tourism ventures by contributing to creating economic independence for local communities, ensuring that they benefit from our tourism enterprises. Our focus is on buffer zone communities – integrating those people living on the boundaries of wildlife reserves. Socio-cultural sustainability involves promoting authentic cultural exchange and preserving local traditions, whilst encouraging community members to see tourism in a positive light – an opportunity to start their own businesses to service tourists, allowing adults to feel a sense of self-respect, pride and ownership through income generation.

Communities

From our base in Hoedspruit, BHS supports youth from buffer zone communities on a path to pursue careers in conservation, hospitality, and tourism. Through education and exposure to wilderness areas, young members of these communities can become contributors to local wildlife economies, encouraging a personal connection with nature, financial benefit, and investment in the future.

Conservation

BHS is passionate about protecting Africa’s wilderness habitats and wildlife populations. Poaching, human encroachment, and habitat loss are three primary threats to the survival of the wild, and the solutions to these issues are complex, but through tourism that gives back to our network and conservation partners, we are sharing our impact and encouraging a culture of sustainable travel.

Contribution

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and each step you take with us preserves our African wilderness and wildlife populations. Through your safari you are contributing directly to the protection of wilderness areas, to anti-poaching efforts, to supporting local communities and most importantly, to protecting biodiversity in Africa. BHS is part of a tourism network that creates change.

Collaboration

Explore places and experience moments far beyond your realm by allowing us to connect you to the people and places we know are as passionate and devoted to the bush and her raw potential as we are. Our partnerships are based on the shared belief that safari experiences are life changing and that your African adventure can help build a stronger future for conservation.

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