Xilam Promotes Three Senior Execs

Xilam Animation has made three senior executive promotions, including Cécile Hergaux-Essame being upped to general manager of its Cube Creative subsidiary company.

Hergaux-Essame has held the production manager position at Cube Creative for six years and then as head of Xilam Group’s studios for a year. In this new role, she will be supervising current productions and developing new properties for the company, as well as securing premium projects from third parties.

Hergaux-Essame will report into Marc du Pontavice, president of Xilam and Cube Creative.

Caterina Gonnelli-Linden has been elevated to CCO, and Guillaume Jallot to CTO.

Gonnelli-Linden joined Xilam in 2020 as head of editorial, with a goal of steering the continuing growth of Xilam’s portfolio. She now takes on the CCO role for a newly created content division, which will bring together several departments: literary development, graphic development and the management of editorial supervisors.

She reports into du Pontavice.

Jallot, who joined Xilam in 2019, has been driving the company’s use of 3D animation technology, notably with the development of Oggy Oggy and Karate Sheep. In his new CTO role, Jallot is leading a newly formed department that brings together the R&D, IT and technical departments. He will be responsible for managing the group’s technological investments and strategy, with the goal of offering Xilam’s talent the most effective and ergonomic tools to drive innovation at each stage of production.

He will report to Dorothée Lanchier, COO of the Xilam Group.