Training | Meet the Simply Rhino Trainers
Meet the Simply Rhino Training Team
Our trainers are all experts in their chosen fields, this gives us the opportunity of supplying you with the perfect Rhino3D and/or Grasshopper3D trainer to help train you, your team, or your company.
Experienced, Professional & Highly-skilled Team
Our Rhino training team is also the most experienced you’ll find anywhere. They have expertly trained 1000’s of Rhino users from many diverse industries and are Professional Instructors with meaningful industry & real-world experience. This combination of skill, professionalism and experience adds up to the most capable & knowledgeable team of Rhino instructors available!
Rhino3D Training Team
Senior Rhino Trainer Phil Cook heads this Rhino focused team and also delivers our Advanced Rhino course; Rhino Level 2. Phil also delivers our Rhino Core AEC training programme to architectural studios looking to improve the way they work with Rhino and help them become more efficient. If you’re starting out in CAD with Rhino3D then you’ll get off to the best start with Sean who delivers our Rhino Level 1 Certified Course. Jewellers will be pleased to meet Jack, Jack is a professional jeweller and delivers our Jewellery specific Rhino beginners course. For those in Architecture and Engineering wanting to get to know Rhino.Inside.Revit then Ivana will show you the way with our Rhino.Inside.Revit Essentials Course.

Phil Cook
Advanced Rhino
Phil Cook
Phil is an experienced product designer who has overseen hundreds of designs from concept to production. He has been working with Simply Rhino for over fourteen years and is responsible for advanced Rhino 3D training and bespoke Rhino workflows for customers.
Phil is also a V-Ray and T-Splines trainer. He has trained many leading creative and engineering businesses including Foster and Partners, HOK, Mothercare, Samsung plus academic institutions including the Royal College of Art and Central St Martins.
Training Focus
- Advanced Modelling and Surfacing
- Rhino in Product Design
- Rhino in Furniture Design
- Rhino for Architectural Design
- Rhino for 3D Print
- SubD Modelling in Rhino
- Reverse Engineering workflows with Rhino
- Tailored Project Specific Modelling
- V-Ray for Rhino
- KeyShot
Phil also delivers the Scheduled Rhino Level 2, our Rhino Core AEC programme, plus the V-Ray for Rhino and KeyShot rendering classes.

Sean Cowell
Rhino
Sean Cowell
Sean’s background in CAD goes back over 20 years, his main experience is in Architecture plus M&E Services Industries. Sean has been a Certified Rhino Instructor since 2006 and delivers the Simply Rhino Introductory classes. Sean is well known to the many hundreds to have come through our Level 1 Day or Evening Classes and those who he has privately trained on site. Sean also delivers training at our annual Rhino Summer School to educators from Schools, Colleges and Universities. Sean is also an Authorised Trainer for the Rhino Advanced Landscaping plug-in, Lands Design.
Training Focus
- Introductory Modelling Classes, both Scheduled and On-Site Classes
- Lands Design - Advanced Landscaping Software for Rhino 3D
Sean also delivers our Introductory Rhino Level 1 Scheduled classes and our Rhino Taster Workshops.

Jack Meyer
Rhino For Jewellery
Jack Meyer
Jack Meyer has been providing jewellery CAD training in London's jewellery district Hatton Garden since 2006. Over 800+ students have passed through his classes over the years. His combined background in computer graphics programming as well as jewellery manufacturing is unusual among jewellery CAD instructors. He is also one of the few jewellery CAD instructors in the world who is certified to provide training in all major jewellery CAD software packages. When not writing or delivering courses, he runs a bespoke jewellery design business and moderates a jewellery technology trends blog, where he uses his combined knowledge of all types of jewellery CAD to provide advisory to those keen on starting out in jewellery CAD.
Training Focus
- Introduction to Rhino for Jewellery Design
- Jewellery Specific Classes
Jack also delivers our scheduled Rhino Level 1 for Jewellery course.

Ivana Petrusevski
Rhino.Inside.Revit
Ivana Petrusevski
Ivana is a Computational Design Specialist with more than 15 years of experience in computation for AEC. She is a part of the Design Technology team at Grimshaw Architects, where she is working as computational support for large-scale projects, Rhino & Grasshopper trainer, and is involved in various digital technology strategies and initiatives. She as well teaches computation at the University of the Creative Arts.
Her PhD research looks at advancing interaction with digital media in Architecture and Urban Design. Her work has been exhibited at V&A, Miami Art Basel, Amsterdam Light Festival, and public spaces in London.
Training Focus
- Rhino.Inside®.Revit
Ivana also delivers our Rhino.Inside®.Revit Essentials Training Course
Grasshopper3D Training Team
Meet our specialist Grasshopper3D Training team from Mamou-Mani. Lead by Arthur Mamou-Mani, the Grasshopper team deliver training to inspire, enabling you to develop your parametric design skills and beyond. Clinton will introduce you to Grasshopper software and applications in our Grasshopper Level 1 Course. The natural progression is to then move to Grasshopper Level 2, delivered by Arthur and Fun, which will help broaden your parametric knowledge with Advanced Data Trees, Form-Finding, Meshes and SubD’s.

Arthur Mamou-Mani
Grasshopper
Arthur Mamou-Mani
Arthur is an architect and a lecturer at the University of Westminster in London. He is the director of the award-winning architecture practice Mamou-Mani, specialising in a new kind of digitally designed and fabricated architecture. He has been working with Simply Rhino for the past ten years, giving Grasshopper3D workshops to prestigious design and engineering companies including Heatherwick Studio and Foster + Partners as well as many leading academic bodies such as the Architectural Association School of Architecture and UCL-Bartlett. He has won the American Architecture Prize, the RIBA Rising Star Award and has been awarded the Pierre Cardin Prize for Architecture from the Academie des Beaux-Arts in France.
Training Focus
- Introduction to Grasshopper + Advanced Grasshopper
- DIVA (Now ClimateStudio - Daylight & Energy Modelling for Rhino)
- Kangaroo Physics-based simulation
- Karamba Structural Analysis
- Galapagos and Octopus Evolutionary Solvers
- Tailored Project Specific workflow with Rhino & Grasshopper
- Interoperability with BIM
- C# plugins for Grasshopper
- Silkworm 3D Printing
- Next Limit Maxwell Render
Arthur also delivers the Scheduled Grasshopper Level 2 classes with Fun Yuen.

Clinton Mendonca
Grasshopper
Clinton Mendonca
Clinton Mendonca is an Architect and a Computational designer, riveted in parametric, computational and generative design. Having completed his Postgraduate degree from Emergent Technologies at the Architectural Association, he is explorative in the fields of digital fabrication and manufacturing, computational and data driven design, extended reality visualisations and believes in the integration and co-existence of physical and digital media as the future of the built environment. Prior to working at Mamou-mani Architects he has worked as an architect for 5 years at various design firms based in Mumbai.
Training Focus
- Introduction to Grasshopper
Clinton also delivers the scheduled Grasshopper Level 1 training course.

Fun Yuen
Grasshopper
Fun Yuen
Fun is an architectural designer at London-based Architectural practice Mamou-Mani Ltd., specialising in generative design and fabrication processes. Her work incorporates research, parametric design, and fabrication management. She is also a faculty assistant at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and has been giving Grasshopper 3D workshops at the Architectural Association in London.
She holds an MSc (Distinction) in Emergent Technologies and Design from the Architectural Association (2019) and a BSc (Hons) in Creative Media and Computer Science joint degree from City University of Hong Kong (2016).
Training Focus
- Grasshopper
Fun also delivers the Scheduled Grasshopper Level 2 classes with Arthur Mamou-Mani.

Krishna Bhat
Grasshopper
Krishna Bhat
Krishna Bhat has an MSc degree in Emergent Technologies and Design from the Architectural Association where his work specialized in computational design and advanced digital fabrication. An expert in parametric modelling Krishna has since been involved in a wide range of projects. His interests include generative design at an architectural and urban scale, integrating complex geometry, environmental and structural analysis. Prior to his masters at the AA he had 5 years of work experience in Qatar and India.
Training Focus
- Introduction to Grasshopper
- Karamba Structural Analysis
- Introduction to Python
Simply Rhino Training Testimonials
'It was a pleasure meeting you and taking the Rhino course with you. Your training is succinct and very thorough and honestly makes every bit of information you convey stick in the head. Sean is a superb teacher, his methodological approach stands out'.
Reda Sejini
'Took the online Grasshopper training classes and learned so much! Would definitely recommend as the instructor is very knowledgeable and accommodating with all the questions and suggestions for things that you would want to learn during the course.'
Sofia Gomez
'Arthur is such a great teacher! He explains everything in detail and he always assure everyone is keeping the pace.'
Leandro Carbia
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