William Rhode

His father, William Rhode, was a well-known food consultant who had written several cookbooks and was a founding editor of Gourmet magazine.After graduating from Yale University in 1962 and the American Institute for Foreign Trade in 1963 Mike moved to the San Francisco Bay area where he started his career in residential property development and contracting.

In 1970 he moved to London, England where he set up and managed a residential development company, known as Fieldwright Ltd., for Meridian Investing and Development, a US public company.In 1974 Mike set up his own development company, Skybridge Ltd., which operated primarily in Scotland.Using his knowledge of timber frame construction from California Mike and Skybridge developed a line of timber frame kit houses which were used in their own developments and also sold to others.