Meet the Team

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We approach our working lives with enormous levels of enthusiasm, backed up by an extensive knowledge not only of South West France but of all the challenges involved in relocating to a new area.
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All of our team have personal experience in relocating their own families around the world and also working together with international corporate clients in a professional environment. 

We are a multi-lingual team - English, French, Spanish and German - and have a large network of associates who can support our Russian, Chinese, Italian and Japanese clients. 
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Shona Munro
​Co-Founder

Shona is Scottish by birth and moved to London in her late teens. After several years, her career with Visa International took her to Dubai, where she met her husband. Following the birth of her daughter, Shona set-up and ran her own relocation agency in Dubai before moving to Hong Kong and finally settling in Bordeaux. Shona speaks English and French (albeit with a Scottish accent!).

Her experience both as an employee and a trailing spouse ensures that she is ideally placed to assist private and corporate clients with every aspect of their relocation to Bordeaux.

Gwendolyn Sagnol
​​Co-Founder

Gwendolyn moved from England to Germany when she was a young girl before returning to the UK to attend boarding school.  She then went on to study European Business.  She travelled extensively before settling down in Munich, where she worked in Marketing and Events for a major European football club.   Gwen is fully tri-lingual in English, German and French.

It was there she met her French husband. They have two children and have relocated five times in the past ten years (in between Germany and France), before moving to Bordeaux. ​

Our Consultants

Barbara Dalibert

Barbara is French (bi-lingual French/English) with Australian citizenship and moved to Bordeaux in 2021. She comes with 20 years relocation experience having moved her family to five different countries (UK, US, France, Australia & Singapore). Barbara met her husband whilst working in London and more family adventures followed in New York and Australia and Singapore. Barbara has 2 teenage daughters, who are discovering life in France and thankfully settling in nicely. As a result of her expatriate experiences Barbara understands the challenges of relocating to another country and thrives on being involved in helping new arrivals settle into their new homes.

Mary de Vanssay

Mary comes from the United States (trilingual in English,  French and Spanish) and is married to a Frenchman with whom she shares three children. She and her family have made several international moves across the world  and have lived in Paris, New Delhi, England, New Jersey, Barcelona and now come full circle back to France. She knows firsthand how difficult the logistics can be when arriving in a new country. Having spent many years teaching English, Mary moved into a Customer Relations role for a design firm in Philadelphia. Her husband’s work brought them to Barcelona in 2014 where she eventually joined a boutique relocation company.  These roles and relocations allow Mary to use her extensive experience to help others settle in seamlessly.