About Rachel Lowe MBE

Rachel has been creating games since 2002, and over the course of her career, she has launched over 50 best-selling games and puzzles including products for multiple TV and film series, including Call The Midwife, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, The Incredibles, Harry Potter, The London 2012 Olympic Games, and Downton Abbey.

Her entrepreneurial journey started when she worked as a taxi driver while at university in the early 2000s. She had an idea for a board game where taxis would be the playing pieces, and the board would be the city with various destinations earning the player fares. Her idea won The Enterprise Challenge competition at the University of Portsmouth, and she used the prize money to set up her first company, RTL Games Ltd in 2003. She went on to launch Destination London in Hamleys Toy Store in London in 2004, which went on to become their top-selling product both in store and online, outselling the likes of Monopoly and Twister. In 2005, she appeared on BBC’s Dragon’s Den and went on to create a further 30 editions of the Destination series of board games, which continually topped the best selling charts in the UK. In 2006, she was the winner of the NatWest Everywoman Award, which celebrates female entrepreneurial success.