Meet the Nice Apartments Pebbles Team
When you book your Nice Pebbles apartment, you get a Nice rental apartment that will far surpass your expectations of what a Nice rental could be. Because along with your apartment, you also get the assistance of the Pebbles team. Our greeters and other team members appear to be psychic in the way they will anticipate your questions and have all answers at the ready. They’ve been there, done that and know people who know people, which of course, makes you feel like an immediate local resident with an all-access passeport to what’s hip, haute and fun. In short, our greeters facilitate the Nice holiday of your dreams.
They’ve got your key to the front door. And the key to your most memorable Nice holiday.—Matt and Gayle Roberts
Keely Lise Barrett Keely Barrett is our Northern English Rose. Enviably fluent in French, Keely settled in Nice in 2008 after finishing her French degree at Edinburgh University. Working firstly as part of our changeover team, Keely has quickly become our indispensable general manager. In reality this means Keely wears a lot of different hats including managing and assisting our team, handling reservations, taking care of our guests, assisting with the sales arm of the business and writing for the websites and our Pebbles Guide. Whew!
Veronica Sexton joined the office team in 2010 when she moved to France with her boyfriend when he landed a job too hard to turn down. Originally from Ireland with an impressive background in sales management and training, Roni began life at Pebbles helping with new enquiries but has quickly become our client manager and also took up the main role in organising our Pebbles Guide. Roni has travelled extensively and loves exploring new places and often does so by cycling around Nice and nearby towns.
Marie Perrier Half French and half American, Marie also speaks Italian and some Spanish. With a background in events and luxury apartment rentals, and then starting with us as one of our changeover team, Marie now heads up the changeover team and day to day management of our Nice apartments to make sure they stay well maintained and up to scratch for our guests.
Jennifer Neal is our newest office recruit and joined the office team in early 2011 when she moved to Nice from Greece where she had spent the last two years as a restaurant manager. Originally from Sheffield, UK, she has been at the forefront of the customer service industry for most of her working life, previously working as a long-haul flight attendant for Emirates and as a hotel manager. Most of our guests will speak to Jenn on the phone or by email as she handles our new enquiries and helps our guests choose the right apartment.
Bruno Defforge is our lovable Frenchman and after 20 years in the US, he returned to his roots and joined us in early 2009. Often complimented on his sheer enthusiasm by our guests, Bruno is certainly larger than life and entertains us all in the office with his funny stories and huge smile. Both Nice Pebbles and Riviera Pebbles want a piece of Bruno so he divides his workload between the two arms of the business, as well as helping out with maintenance.
Kelly McClain is originally from the US. Kelly came here to learn French at school and fell in love with both David Zincke (the humble yet very talented musician) and with Nice itself. She joined us in 2010 and Nice is better for having her in it and we know all our guests will love her big warm smile. As well as being a key part of our Nice Pebbles changeover team, Kelly helps with the finishing touches of some of our apartments’ design and photography.
Liza Opher is one of our newest Nice Pebbles recruits joining our team in 2011. She is just a few years out of University where she studied Sociology, but has been working in Nice for five years, coming over every university break to work in the town she loves. She settled here almost two years ago, with her boyfriend and two dogs, and we’re loving having her around and we’re sure all our guests will love her too.
Philip Cecchettini is our web master and is responsible for our websites. Based in California, it was a chance meeting in the restaurant La Mérenda when both Phil and his wife and Gayle and Matthew were on a four-day trip to Nice and were sitting at adjoining tables. There was chemistry and the start of a beautiful friendship. A year later Gayle and Matthew contacted Phil and asked him to help them build a new concept of holiday apartment rentals in Nice.
Sheila Langer is responsible for all of our artwork both on the web sites and in our publications and marketing products. Sheila is also based in California but spent many years in France and married a Frenchman before they both returned to California. Sheila is called upon to speak her fluent French to our suppliers from time to time.
Charles Shepley, our UK based director, and a tax specialist at one of the leading firms of accountants. Charlie is responsible for our strategic planning, budgeting and UK based marketing. When not tied to his desk he loves to visit us in Nice.
Our Owners. We choose our owners carefully. All of them are pro-active, pleasant to deal with and responsive to any problems which occur in the rental apartments. We all appreciate how they are continually open to suggestions by way of improvements. Without them there would be no Nice Pebbles Ltd or Riviera Pebbles Ltd and we wouldn't be able to offer you the service we strive to give our Guests.
If apartments that appeal to you are booked, . We are acquiring new apartments all the time. Some that are only available for a couple of months a year, we do not advertise on the site.
Thank you for taking an interest in Nice Pebbles and we hope to meet you soon. If there is any way we can help with your trip here, please get in touch.
Matthew & Gayle Roberts
