Raphaël is both highly technical and creative. "His return gives our audio-visual capacity a great boost," says Group creative director Franck Vasserot. "Raphaël allows messaggio studios to offer a much higher level of video production both for the web and television," Vasserot concludes.

Raphaël masters all aspects of audio-visual production including motion graphics, camera ops and editing. He is also an accomplished videojournalism director having worked with group president Giray on many productions starting over a decade ago. They also collaborated on a major educational animation production.

Raphaël replaces Maria Burns who has moved on to a fiction-oriented editing career in New York and London.