Raphael Bennett

Raphael is an entrepreneur with more than 15 years experience in building, leading, and inspiring high performing, global, multi-shift engineering teams. Raphael’s Michigan Ross MBA backed expertise delivers unique c-suite capacity to converse, absorb, and execute stakeholder's tech strategy and vision. Keen on culture building and with exquisite retention, Raphael executes with support from his direct reports in back-end engineering, front-end engineering, data engineering & science, data operations & enrichment, devops, and product management. Currently, Raphael is the Chief Technology Officer of recently acquired BCV Social (RateGain, June 2019), a technology-enabled social media management and strategy company with expertise in the hospitality industry. Since joining BCV, Raphael has built various engineering teams and led the refactoring of BCV's proprietary software used to manage the 24/7 social media needs of more than 30 different global hotels brands such as Four Seasons, Starwood, InterContinental, Hilton, Rosewood, Hyatt, and Marriott.