Tanya Donahue, Owner/President
Tanya@rikb.com
“Great things in business are never done by one person. They are done by a team of people.”
— Steve Jobs
Tanya Donahue, President and Owner of RIKB Design Build, provides her team and her clients with proven strategic capabilities, backed by her strong record of success. Bringing over 30 years in the home building and remodeling industry, her focus is to create, communicate, and implement the organization’s vision, mission, and overall direction. Tanya’s design build firm ranks as one of the largest in the New England region. RIKB has ranked in the national remodeling Top 500 and 550 firms for many years and has received the Guild Quality Top 100 service award from Qualified Remodeler Magazine for the last two years. In 2020 she was selected as Kitchen & Bath’s Design News Innovator Honoree.
Tanya is an active member of the Rhode Island Builder’s Association, serving as the former co-chair of the Remodelers Committee and currently serving her second term on the Board of Directors. She received the 2015 Prism award for marketing, the 2017 Professional Remodeler magazine Extreme Sales Leader award, served as judge for the national Qualified Remodeler’s Design Awards, and has been asked to speak at Harvard Universities Joint Center for Housing Studies and on National Industry Panels. Under her leadership the company has received Rhode Island’s Best Places to Work award for the last four consecutive years.
Her leadership style can be categorized by innovation, creativity, and care for her team. Today, dozens of employees and thousands of satisfied clients have benefited from her leadership style. With a 3,500 sq. ft. design center as a foundation, she only hires individuals who share her commitment to quality work and dedication to customer service. She’s attracted a team of creative designers, detail-oriented project managers, and talented installation crews, to work together in an environment that fosters creativity and collaboration.