About Us

With offices in Hong Kong, the UAE and the UK, RedFin Aquarium Design offer aquarium design, construction and management to clients world-wide. RedFin work closely with interior designers, architects and engineers to provide the highest standard in design and customer service.

RedFin is part of Sanderia Group limited and was set up to compliment two existing brands operating under Sanderia, Cubic Aquarium Systems and Exotic Aquaculture. Cubic supplies high quality, specialised aquariums to the retail aquarium trade internationally and Exotic Aquaculture operates an aquaculture facility to supply jellyfish to public aquariums and the retail home aquarium trade across the world.

RedFin employ a multinational team of specialists with experience in a variety of roles in the design, construction and management of large commercial aquariums, including the supply of jellyfish. RedFin delivers excellent project outcomes by detailed-orientated aquarium design with our clients and by providing quality components, installation and maintenance options.

Meet the Team

  • James Bruce

    James Bruce

    Managing Director

    James is the managing director of Sanderia Group and has a lifelong passion for aquariums. With a background in engineering, James leads all design and conceptualisation activities for RedFin. Prior to establishing Sanderia Group, James worked as a senior aquarist for Wynn Resorts in Macau, where he was responsible for maintaining the resort’s 11,000 litre Jellyfish aquarium, the largest of its kind in the world at the time.

  • Patrick Twomey

    Director - Business Development

    Patrick leads RedFin's business development activities and liaises with clients across a range of issues including contracts, logistics, and taxation. Patrick has extensive experience in cross-border trade through roles in Ireland, Belgium and Hong Kong. He holds a degree in Finance from NUI (Ireland) and a Master of International Business from Macquarie University, Australia.

  • Zhi Peng Ye

    General Manager

    Zhi leads RedFin’s projects, product development, logistics and procurement. He brings design and manufacturing experience from Ford Australia. He also has broad experience in managing projects, processes, developing strategy, community engagement and research. He has a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering, a Graduate Diploma of Electrical Engineering, and is a PRINCE 2 Practitioner.

  • Toshihiro Yoshida PhD.

    Head of Livestock & Aquaculture

    Toshihiro is RedFin’s biological expert and has extensive experience in the aquatics field. He has worked for various research institutes and public aquariums, including Australian Antarctic Division, Tsuruoka-City Kamo Aquarium and Wynn Macau Aquarium. A Marine Biology graduate, Toshihiro received a PhD. degree in Marine Plankton from the University of Tasmania (Australia).

  • Mon Yuen

    Mon Yuen

    Administrative Manager

  • Robin Bruce

    Robin Bruce

    Design Manager

    Robin gained a BSc Physics with Particle Physics and Cosmology from the University of Swansea. Robin has advanced skills in Autocad and Solidworks drafting. He has designed aquariums and filtration systems for Cairns Aquarium, Seville Aquarium, Valencia Aquarium and Melbourne Aquarium amongst others.

  • Frea Ablazo

    Senior Designer

  • Gleb Chornobay

    Designer - Visualisation Specialist

  • Varghese George

    Project Manager

  • Mario Noack

    Mario Noack

    Installation Manager - Asia Pacific

    Mario Noack has over 25 years experience in project management. Mario has overseen engineering projects ranging from the construction of water treatment plants to specialist industrial furnace erections. Mario has multiple certifications in project management, safety & concrete applications.

  • Mohamed Al Scotti

    Installation Manager - MENA

  • Uroš Rožič MSc

    Structural Engineer

  • Allen Zhang

    Allen Zhang

    Production & QC Manager - China

  • Alvin Balala

    Executive Assistant

  • Nelson Cheung

    Aquarium Operations

  • Jason Chan

    Aquarium Operations

  • Sarah Wong

    Dive Operations

Why Choose RedFin

International, multilingual team

RedFin comprises of an international team of experienced aquarium designers and installers who have worked on custom aquarium projects throughout the world. These exciting projects have included a Dubai jellyfish aquarium, London nightclub aquariums, casino aquariums in Macau and coral reef fish tanks in Saudi Arabia.

Supply of healthy, disease free livestock

RedFin is partnered with Exotic Aquaculture who supply high quality aquarium livestock to some of the world’s largest public aquariums. We guarantee that our livestock is sustainably collected, healthy and disease free. The ethical selection and sourcing of livestock is of paramount importance to all of the RedFin team.

Dedicated design team

RedFin’s design team use state of the art design software to create engineering or architectural drawings which will fit seamlessly into client’s own drawings. 3D renders and computer stress analysis are also available on final design.

In house quality control

RedFin’s in house staff oversee every stage of the production process ensuring any goods produced under the RedFin brand meet our high quality standards. 

Fully trained maintenance and installation team

RedFin installation and maintenance staff have a wide range of knowledge and experience coming from public aquarium, aquaculture or other related backgrounds. Our staff undergo extensive training ensuring they are competent in all areas that they operate in.  

In house water quality testing lab

Perfect water quality is extremely important when running a healthy vibrant aquarium. The water from aquariums we maintain is regularly tested and adjusted at our in-house lab, run by a PhD chemist. Any necessary adjustments are then made to the aquarium to keep the livestock healthy.

Our Commitment

To Quality.

Customer satisfaction is RedFin's highest priority. We achieve this goal by continuously improving the cost effectiveness and performance of all of our products and processes, as well as focusing on innovation.

To Service.

We are committed to providing our customers a high quality, personalised service and we strive to meet all of our clients needs.

To the Environment.

We believe that there's no conflict between economic prosperity and environmental stewardship. In fact, the two are actually mutually dependent upon each other. RedFin focus on aquacultured or sustainably sourced livestock.