About Mike

The name

Everywhere I've worked, I was that guy. The one with a solution before the question was fully formed. A restaurant fully booked? Give me two minutes. Flight cancelled, no hotel rooms in a 50km radius, and it's raining? Already on it. At some point someone said it out loud and it became the name. I didn't choose it. It chose me.

25 years on the Côte d'Azur

I moved to the French Riviera 25 years ago and never found a convincing reason to leave. I know this coast the way you know a city when you've actually lived in it — not the guidebook version, but the real one. The back roads that save twenty minutes. The restaurant that looks empty because locals book it three weeks ahead. The difference between a good day to drive to Saint-Tropez and a day you'll spend stationary on the N98 questioning your life choices.

15 years at Monaco

Most of my career was built in Monaco and Switzerland, working directly for ultra-high-net-worth families. Private residences, discreet transportation, logistics that needed to be right the first time. No room for improvisation. No tolerance for approximation. Before that, Washington DC — private transportation, different scale, same expectations.

Monaco is essentially my backyard at this point. I say that not to impress, but because when your client has a meeting at the Hermitage at 9am and the GP circuit closes three roads at 8:45, it helps to know the one that doesn't.

Apparently, I'm funny

I should mention this because people bring it up. Passengers regularly tell me I should do stand-up comedy. I have no idea what they're talking about. I'm just explaining things. Apparently the way I explain things is the problem. Or the solution, depending on how you look at it. Either way, the drive to Monaco is never boring.

One driver. One standard.

I've worked for people who could afford any service on the planet and chose discretion over display. That shapes how I operate. No fleet, no dispatch desk, no last-minute substitution with someone who's never driven the Grande Corniche. You book me, you get me.

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