Alice Lomas

Office Manager

Alice joined us as a Chalet Manager in 2016 with a view to taking a break from the fast-paced London life. Now on her seventh ski season, and sixth with us, it’s clear that she loves life in the mountains. She and our Resort Manager Pete were married on Lake Annecy in 2018, having met 15 years ago during Alice’s first season in Alpe d’Huez.

Prior to joining us she spent six years managing Coda, the fine dining restaurant at the Royal Albert Hall, and she brings with her a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the servicing and catering industry. She has a Bachelor’s Honours degree in Media Studies from Chichester University and has worked as a sales assistant at the Riverside Art Gallery and a head waitress for Leiths at Glyndebourne Opera House. Out of the ‘office’, Alice is a yoga enthusiast and is qualified to teach level three Mat Pilates.

Alice is laid-back, empathetic and has a great sense of humour, alongside being extremely hard-working and organised.

Ava Murphy

Concierge

Beck McInnes

Careers Director

Beck has been an integral member of the Purple Ski team for many years now - previously as our Staff Manager - and we are so delighted that she is now in the UK-based role of Careers Director, handling the recruitment of our brilliant chalet teams each season.

Beck is from Lake Cargelligo, NSW, Australia (about 360 miles west of Sydney). She has a wealth of diverse work experience, including managing a summer camp, working with children in care (she holds a teaching degree) and teaching cookery at the Orchards Cookery School. More recently she was the chef on a superyacht based in the Mediterranean.

Outside of work, Beck is passionate about fitness (she is a qualified personal trainer) and enjoys water-skiing, tennis, squash and netball. Her other passion is food - both cooking and eating!

She is endlessly hard-working, always positive and strives for the absolute best in everything she does. She is also very caring of all of those around her and brings sunshine wherever she goes.

Charlotte Rous

Public Relations

Charlotte was born in London and grew up in California. A US/UK dual citizen, she loves nothing more than putting both passports to use travelling and experiencing new places and cultures, which led her to becoming a PR specialist in the luxury travel industry – and she now has over a decade of experience with leading UK and international media under her belt. She handles the PR for Purple Ski and helps communicate our stories and luxury offerings to the media - helping us stay in the press regularly!

Charlotte founded her agency Charlotte Rous Communications in 2020 with a mission to work with unique, luxurious and bespoke offerings worldwide. She lives with her husband and their three young sons in London, and is assisted at work by their pug, Wellington.

Gabrielle Urvari

Concierge

Originally from Canada, Gabrielle has grown up with skiing as a constant in her life. She went on to study at McGill University in Quebec, the French-Canadian province where her mother is from. After university, Gabrielle worked for Direct Travel, a large-scale travel management company. After a year of post-grad experience, she wanted to explore European skiing and work on the front end of the traveling industry. She is a citizen of Hungary, a handy passport to have as a way to live and work abroad.

After falling in love with the French alps her first season, she became interested in the operations side of Ski Chalet operators. She joined Purple Ski this season to work behind the scenes on planning holidays.

Outside of work, Gabrielle is an avid runner, loves to read, and enjoys cooking and trying different restaurants around the cities she has lived in and the places she visits.

Jill Christer

Managing Director

Zac Brown

Head of Sales & Marketing

Originally from rural Cambridgeshire, Zac fell in love with skiing in his teens, after first visiting the French Alps with his family aged 12 and then rarely missing a year from then on. He went on to study French and History at Nottingham University, always with the intention of heading to the Alps afterwards for a ski season. He loves being bilingual and spent a year abroad in France as part of his degree, choosing Grenoble in order to be as close to the mountains as possible.

Zac has an abundance of experience in the travel industry, having joined Madame Vacances’ Management Trainee graduate programme after university. He completed a ski season at their Hotel Le Mottaret in Méribel, and went on to become UK Sales Manager for their London office. He also spent 18 months working as part of Ski Solutions’ Operations and Product team.

Outside of work, Zac is a sports fanatic and particularly enjoys cricket, which he plays for a local club in London, as well as rugby, tennis, squash, cycling and running. He loves to travel and people are always surprised to hear he has even visited North Korea. His other interests include cooking and long walks with his trusted dog Chilli and wife Emma.

Meghan Ace

Senior Sales Advisor

Meghan is based in our London office and joined the Purple Ski team in 2020 upon returning from a year teaching English in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She grew up in the lovely French countryside, and so is completely bilingual; she also speaks Spanish and spent a year abroad living in Oviedo, Asturias. She is no stranger to the travel industry having jumped straight into it after completing her degree in Modern Languages at the University of Poitiers in France in 2015.

Outside of work, Meghan loves exploring new places and sampling delicious food! She is chatty, thrives being around lots of people, and is committed to making your holiday an unforgettable experience in her role as Senior Sales Advisor.

Hannah Crane-Buck

Head of Editorial

Hannah joined us back in 2014 for what was supposed to be one ski season in Méribel – and has been part of the Purple Ski team ever since! Our guests will no doubt have got to know her in her previous role of Sales and Customer Services Manager; now she is based in the UK and managing Purple Ski’s copywriting and editorial needs, such as our regular newsletters.

Hannah has long had a passion for writing and languages, having graduated from the University of Warwick with First Class honours in French Studies with Italian, and an MA in Translation and Creative Writing. She is fluent in both French and Italian and has basic Portuguese skills; she loves having the chance to use her languages and travels as often as she can. In addition to her seasons in Méribel she has worked abroad multiple times, as a teaching assistant in France, intern for a travel company in Spain, and office manager for a summer camp in the US. She loves people and socialising and her hobbies are very diverse, including skiing, hiking, Via Ferrata, and diving.

Pete Lomas

Operations Manager

Originally from London, Pete joined us in 2016 having previously worked seven seasons as a Resort Representative and Ski Technician, then subsequently being promoted to Head Ski Technician, managing eight ski rental facilities and a team of ski technicians, representatives and shop managers. He also managed a busy licensed pool bar in the heart of London during five inter-seasons, in addition to some summer hotel management work in France. His early experience includes working as a Teaching Assistant with adults and children with learning difficulties, and as Crew Chief at the Royal Albert Hall, helping with the technical side of shows. During his few years away from the mountains, he worked in media as a Television Media Manager at the BBC.

Pete met his now-wife Alice in the Alps back in 2006-07; they had always wanted to do a season again, and now they are on their sixth in a row with us! Pete is hard-working, dedicated and has excellent people skills - both as a leader and team member. He is endlessly positive, calm and is always smiling - as one of his referees said, we are ‘lucky to have him’.