Nate began his broadcast career in NYC at CBS Sports designing content for productions like that of the NCAA Football & Basketball and the NFL Today Show, while also running a documentary film company, Inspired Mind Films and designing multiple forms of content for the production house Anomaly Communications. After a several years, he moved to Los Angeles where he was employed as a VizRT Artist at Reality Check Studios and worked on projects for ESPN’s NFL Monday Night Football, DIRECTV’s Mix Channels and The Weather Channel. He then relocated to Sydney to fill a senior design role at Zspace running VizRT projects for the AFL, Swimming Australia, Fox Sports and CCTV China. He established Girraphic with his business partner, Craig Hamel in 2012 and the rest is history in the making.

Craig has been working in the broadcast graphics industry for over fifteen years. He started his career as a support engineer with Australian broadcast equipment re-seller Amtech, working directly with the technical departments of their suppliers including JVC and VizRT. In 2006 Craig took an opportunity to learn real-time graphics production as operations manager of Zspace’s live graphics department, managing projects for major networks in both Australia and China including AFL Grand Finals and world university games. In need of a new challenge Craig founded Girraphic with business partner Nathan Marsh to create a world leading graphics provider with the aim of helping their clients take graphics production to the next level.

Stephen started his career in the Broadcast industry in 2004 after graduating with a degree in Audio-Visual Production Management. He built up his experience by holding various roles across the globe from South Africa to New Zealand, seamlessly integrating VizRT solutions into complex aspects of Broadcast Graphic workflows. In 2013 he was presented with an excellent opportunity with Girraphic in Sydney, Australia where he continued to expand his VizRT expertise. Future projects forecast heavy integration of virtual and augmented reality graphics into the Australian and International market, as well as managing the ever-increasing demand for turnkey broadcast graphic solutions from existing and future clients.

Grant brings with him more than fifteen years’ experience in broadcast technologies. Werle is an expert in developing realtime graphic template suites utilizing the VizRT platform and streamlining workflow for studio and remote productions. Most recently, Grant served as the Real-Time Department Manager at Reality Check Systems in Los Angeles, where he produced
packages for large scale events including sport championships, elections, and network premieres on NBC, CBS, FOX, SKY, DIRECTV and ESPN amongst others. Prior to that, he worked as a Senior VizRT Artist, operator and support technician at CBS Sports, NYC.

Graciela is Girraphic’s version of a Swiss Army knife. Her creative process is only outdone by her ability to build, implement and program VizRT graphic packages of any type. She came to us from network Canal13 in Chile and has extensive experience in sports projects from her time there. Previous to her position there she gained extensive news experience at CNN and TeleSUR TV, both 24/7 news networks in South America. She has in-depth knowledge of a multitude of VizRT Products, Cinema4D, the Adobe Production Suite. She is one of the rare talents who is very capable of taking an idea from a napkin sketch all the way to on-air data-driven product entirely on her own.

Gustavo joins the Girraphic team with over 16 years of experience in the broadcasting industry. Highly innovative, Gustavo has previously implemented VizRT Graphics for a host of sporting events, music festivals, elections and virtual sets. Now part of the Girraphic Team, Gustavo looks forward to extending our global reach into South America.

Ray has an extensive background in traditional visual effects with a wide array of experience in TVC, Short film, Live Events, Projection Mapping and show Content all over the world. His first mission was to bring his vfx knowledge into the real-time world, in an ultimate quest to strike the perfect balance between image fidelity and realtime performance. Ray leads through constant collaboration and his thirst for knowledge and rapid implementation of new technology continues to shape and influence our team’s work, empowering us to create with efficiency and meet the increasing visions of our clients.