Barry Sacks
Founder
Barry is the founder of Homes and Rooms. From running a successful vacation rental business and with a background in technology and product innovation he set out to create an easier and more efficient way to manage his rentals.
Homes and Rooms was born from Barry’s vision and has been collaboratively developed into the exciting service it is today, empowering other independent vacation rental owners just like him.
Albert Owen
Operations Manager
Albert is responsible for both our operations and our third party partnerships. His globally extensive relationship management experience ensures that we are able to provide the very best in customer service while supporting our rapid growth.
Albert is a global wanderlust who’s lived in 4 countries and enjoys immersing himself in new cultures. Having recently returned from a trip to Russia, Albert’s planning his next family holiday to the French Riviera.
Nigel Anderton
Web Developer
Nigel ensures that all the fantastic services we offer and integrate with can talk to each other making it as easy as possible for our subscribers and guests to use and pay for them.
Being a self-confessed music fanatic Nigel has visited his favorite venue, the Glastonbury Music Festival in Somerset, England, no less than 10 times. He also owns a vast music collection and travels widely visiting music venues wherever he goes.
Darren Wright
Software Developer
Darren works on the behind the scenes technology that gives Homes and Rooms it's automation and intelligence, allowing owners to take a hands off approach managing their properties.
Increasingly adventurous, Darren enjoys spending time outdoors whether as part of his role volunteering as a Scout Leader, mountain biking or camping. He swims regularly and has recently taken up rock climbing as a hobby.
Ant Satchell
Web Designer
Ant is our web designer responsible for giving the Homes and Rooms service its own identity. Ant is also involved in the design and build of our websites and as a freelance artist puts his artistic touch on everything we produce.
Enjoying music his claim to fame is sharing a stage with the band 30 Seconds to Mars. Ant enjoys his vacations, including short hops across to Europe, but his favorite trip and the one place he yearns to revisit is Tokyo, Japan.
Archie Mercader
Web Developer
Archie supports the development team at Homes and Rooms from his base in the Philippines. He is responsible for the smooth running of the Homes and Rooms service as well as looking after our customer's property websites.
Archie is proactive in sports, enjoying running and playing basketball. Archie also likes to travel as much as possible and combines this with his passion for photography.
Leanne Harvey
Digital Manager
Leanne is our Digital Manager ensuring that you are kept up to date with all of our latest news and properties and providing you with online support and information through all of our social media channels.
Always seeking ways to improve customer experiences, Leanne is also the founder of www.staffspotlight.com. A true lover of the outdoors and travelling, she joined our team at Homes and Rooms because she loves what we do. Well, who wouldn't?
Lucy Ivie
Website Manager
Lucy is our amazing multi-tasker. She is responsible for the running of our internal and external websites enabling the smooth-running communication with our subscribers, staff and partners.
Outside of work, Lucy is 'raising a little person' while indulging in her three passions – cooking, talking and eating. A great fan of vacation rentals, impossible to name her favorite stay, Lucy puts New York, Prague and Bali on top of her list.
Tamara McDonald
Business Development
Tamara supports business development here at Homes and Rooms. Tamara is often the first person that a property owner or manager from our global community will be in contact with.
Tamara’s background has been in business development and events previously working for a well-known Private Members Club in London. Tamara is also a motivational speaker on healthy eating and weight loss and a personal trainer.