Cyber Group Studios Adds Four New Hires

Cyber Group Studios has added four new executives to its licensing, media sales, digital and marketing departments, in addition to promoting Gaelle Cotton to the newly created position of manager of creative services.

Bruno Danzel d’Aumont, former director of licensing and consumer products for EMEA for 17 years at The Walt Disney Company, has been appointed as VP of international licensing and marketing. Based in the Paris office, he will manage the licensing and marketing departments and develop a global program for Gigantosaurus, as well as other IP from the company’s catalog. He will report to Pierre Sissmann, chairman and CEO of Cyber Group Studios.

Esther Kim joins the company in the newly created position of coordinator of consumer initiatives for Cyber Group Studios USA. She will report to Richard Goldsmith, president and CEO Cyber Group Studios USA, and work closely with d’Aumont in Paris, strengthening Cyber Group Studios’ marketing and licensing operations worldwide. Before joining the company, Kim was a licensing coordinator at Pinkfong USA, where she managed multiple licensees for their Baby Shark brand and distributed their digital content.

Mickael Frison joins the company as senior digital manager in charge of the company’s overall development. In particular, Frison will be leading Cyber Group Studios’ digital operations, running and growing its YouTube channels, in which he helped generate over 1 billion views in 2019. He will also oversee the creation of digital-native content to increase Cyber Group Studios’ exposure. He joins Cyber Group Studios from Europe 1, a French radio broadcaster, where he was social media manager for the past seven years.

Jessica Laloum is joining the company’s international sales department as international sales executive in charge of Asian and Latin American territories. Laloum started her career at Endemol Shine France and National Geographic. For the past three years, she worked as a sales manager at Glance (Mediametrie), where she provided content and channels strategy to global media professionals based in the EMEA region.

Frison and Laloum will both report to Raphaelle Mathieu, senior VP of sales acquisitions and new media.

Cotton, formerly a creative artist within the licensing and marketing division, has been promoted to the newly created position of manager of creative services. She is supervising for the company’s brand management of series such as Gigantosaurus and Atomic Animation’s The Last Kids on Earth. She will report to d’Aumont.

Sissmann said: “I am extremely pleased to welcome and promote so many talents into our company, at a time when our growth, challenges and opportunities in developing creations and brands are unique. I know that they will contribute to Cyber Group’s culture with their various experiences to enable us collectively to forge new grounds. I wish all of them the best moving forward.”