Like many people from Nice, Georges Rocchietta 's roots lie on the other side of the Alps. The grandson of Italian immigrants who fled Piedmont in the 1930s, he came from a modest background, becoming the first in his family to graduate from high school. Enrolled at Nice University in 1982, it was there, thanks to a friend, that he discovered real estate and a profession that represented for the young man "the quintessence of freedom and independence": developer!