Raphaël Gorgé

About Raphaël Gorgé

Raphaël Gorgé is a French industrial and technology executive known for his ability to reshape listed companies into leading players in advanced sectors. Trained as an engineer, he joined Groupe Gorgé in 2004 after a ten-year career in finance and technology. That combination of industrial and financial experience has strongly influenced his management style, which emphasizes strategic restructuring, innovation, and disciplined growth. Within the group, he first led a major strategic repositioning, reducing exposure to the historical automotive business and redirecting resources toward high-value technology segments. He became Chairman of Groupe Gorgé in 2011 and subsequently oversaw several key transformation phases. One of the most visible was the creation and expansion of Prodways, launched in 2013 as an industrial 3D printing platform. Raphaël Gorgé supported this business through targeted investment, acquisitions, and a focused strategy aimed at demanding markets such as aerospace, healthcare, and industrial manufacturing. He also played a pivotal role in consolidating the group’s defense, robotics, and autonomous systems activities, culminating in the creation of Exail Technologies through the merger of iXblue and ECA Group. That combination helped build a French technology champion with strengthened capabilities in navigation, maritime robotics, drones, and underwater systems. As Chairman & CEO of Exail Technologies, Raphaël Gorgé represents a long-term leadership model built on capital discipline, operational excellence, and sustained R&D investment. In listed-company governance, he stands out as an industrial shareholder-manager with a strong focus on durable value creation, technological depth, and international expansion. His career illustrates the evolution of a French family-controlled group into a strategic global technology player.