Adrian Leeds, Director

Adrian Leeds grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, spent a year on a kibbutz in Israel before settling into a career and family life, first in Knoxville, Tennessee then in Los Angeles, California. In 1994, she brought with her to Paris more than 25 years of experience in marketing and public relations, first with Levi Strauss & Company, then with television station promotion, broadcast advertising sales, media purchasing and advertising agency account management for her own firm, opening in 1981, as well as for others, not to mention a daughter.

She is author and editor of the Parler Paris Nouvellettre^®, editor of the French Property Insider, producer and editor of Insider Paris Guides electronic guides to Paris and the author of The Leeds Good Value Guide to Paris Restaurants. She and her French Property Insider team provides complete property consultation services and produces several conferences and seminars each year in both the U.S. and France under the name of Living and Investing in France. She also co-hosts her own brainchild, the popular Parler Parlor French/English Conversation Group in Paris where members from 50 different countries meet to practice speaking French and English. Adrian Leeds Group, LLC, her U.S. based and her France-based company, Parler-France EURL, provides Web-based relationship marketing, public relations consultation and event coordination targeting to "francophiles" living in North America and France.

Multi-faceted and multi-talented , Leeds is a natural communicator, networker and resourcer. Anything you need to know about Paris and France, anyone you want to know, she either knows it or knows where to find it. Email: Adrian@AdrianLeeds.com

Mary Ellen Gallagher, Property Search Consultant
MaryEllen@AdrianLeeds.com

Mary Ellen Gallagher moved to Paris from Denver, Colorado, where she specialized in marketing and public relations. For many years, Mary Ellen was vice president of an environmental insurance company that helped owners of contaminated commercial properties and their environmental engineers. She ran her own PR firm and served clients as diverse as the Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund and the World Bank. Now happily settled in Paris, Mary Ellen writes fiction and relishes the hidden corners of the City of Light.

John Rule , Rental Property Coordinator and Mortgage Manager
John@AdrianLeeds.com John Rule grew up near Toronto, Canada. After earning a degree in business administration he worked in the Treasury department of a large Canadian steel company, managing their money market portfolio and foreign exchange risk. Upon obtaining the chartered financial analyst designation, he moved to the asset management industry and worked for several years as an equity analyst and portfolio manager for Legg Mason Canada. John moved to Paris in 2004 and plans to make it his home for years to come.