Christelle moved to the UK from her native France in 1995 to work as a freelance programmer for a range of multimedia companies. She went on to set up an e-learning/training company for the finance industry. During that time she worked in a variety of roles including Technical Director, Quality Assurance Director and Operations/Client Services Director. Before joining Met Film Post, Christelle along with Luke Montagu founded the Met Film School, the UK's largest provider of practical filmmaking training programmes.