Aurel Hesso
Aurel Hesso is co-founder of ERentals Exclusive and leads owner acquisition and content production. He shoots and directs the editorial films for every villa and yacht in the collection.
Aurel Hesso
Co-Founder, Head of Owner Acquisition
Aurel Hesso is co-founder of ERentals Exclusive and leads the owner acquisition side of the business. Every villa and yacht relationship in the collection runs through him.
Aurel spent years inside the Mediterranean luxury circuit before joining ERentals in 2025. He knows the owners the platforms never reach, and he speaks their language, both literally and in the currency of trust that decides whether a private owner shares their gate code. Aurel signed a formal co-founder agreement with ERentals in October 2025, taking equity and net revenue participation on every deal he originates.
Based on the Mediterranean, Aurel travels the sourcing routes personally. He walks the villas in Positano, Capri, the French Riviera, and the Greek islands before a single frame goes on the site. He directs the studio films and shoots the editorial photography that appears across every property page in the collection. The visual standard readers see across ERentals Exclusive is his signature, one coherent voice rather than a stitched-together library of agent photos.
Aurel focuses on the properties that do not list publicly. Owner-hosted homes, single-family villas that avoid the OTA world, private yachts booked by referral only. His playbook is calibrated to those owners: a discreet approach, a real conversation before a proposal, and a written commercial framework that respects how they run their asset. That approach is why the collection grew past 120 properties across Mexico, Greece, Morocco, Miami, Cape Town, and Italy without a single mass-outreach campaign.
He also runs the content production pipeline. Films, drone footage, and interior stills for every new property are shot in-house so the visual language across the site stays consistent from Positano to Tulum. Aurel keeps final creative control on what ships.
For owner partnerships, production collaborations, and Mediterranean sourcing conversations, reach the ERentals team at info@erentalsexclusive.com.
By the numbers
Onboarded every villa and yacht in the ERentals collection through direct owner relationships. Zero cold-list acquisitions.
Areas of expertise
Positano and Capri
French Riviera
Greek islands
Owner-direct partnerships
Editorial photography
Villa and yacht film production
Creative direction
Instagram
Villas curated by Aurel
Villa Oliviero
Positano, Italy
Villa Naos
Kea, Greece
Villa Lavan
Mykonos, Greece
Villa Amaya
Miami, United States
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