Russ Wakeham

Russ Wakeham is the co-founder and CEO of Two Drifters Distillery in Exeter, Devon, where he and Gemma Wakeham launched the carbon-negative rum brand in 2019. He is described in interviews and event listings as a chemist with bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral training whose work in carbon capture informed the distillery’s sustainability-focused production model. Sources consistently tie him to Two Drifters and its touring/tasting business, but no credible evidence supports a hospitality or wine role outside the rum/distilling sector.