As Head of Incubation, Raphael leads the InnovationRCA start-up programme, mentoring and guiding the company founders and managing them through a structured programme of development as they build their businesses.
Raphael has extensive commercial experience both in the UK and internationally, following a career in the telecoms sector commercialising technological developments around the world, and latterly with UK Trade & Investment where he worked as an international trade adviser and led trade missions into new and developing markets. He has worked with start-up businesses in the tech, construction and design sectors and brings specific expertise in finance, business planning and strategic development.