Digital Legends

MANAGEMENT

Xavier Carrillo Costa
CEO and Founder

Xavier Carrillo Costa has experience in the games industry since the mid 90's.

He previously served as Executive Producer and Development Director for the award winner Nokia titles "ONE" and "ONE sequel" and NCSoft's MMO "Soccer Fury" at Digital Legends.

Before founding the company in 2001, he worked as Project Director at Rebel Act Studios for Codemasters´ PC title "Severance Blade of Darkness".

His hardware experience includes PC, XBox and pioneering in the mobile devices space, since the first Symbian SDK became available.

He is fluent in Spanish, French, and English. Xavier has studied Telecommunications Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Jean-Philippe Raynaud
VP of Strategy & Corporate Development - Founder Associate

Jean-Philippe Raynaud has been CFO for Asia and Middle-East for an industrial international company during the '00s. He was previously an International Financial Controller in a services and utilities company and provides experience from the Financial and Strategy areas since the late '80s.

He has experience in start-ups and re-structuring small and medium sized companies and his working language skills include English, French and Italian.

He earned a Masters Degree in Management from the University of Paris IX Dauphine, DES Corporate Management University of Paris V Descartes.

Unai Landa Bonilla
CTO

Unai Landa Bonilla brings industry experience since the late 90's in R&D and technology related positions.

Before his technology expertise while pioneering on mobile since the start, he had a consolidated experience on PC, PS, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360 and PS3 in the positions of Lead Technology Programmer, Technology Architect and Technology Programmer at Pyro Studios (Eidos owned) for the multi-million seller Commandos saga (EIDOS): Commandos 1 Beyond Enemy Lines, Commandos 2 Men Of Courage, Commandos 3 Destination Berlin, Commandos Strike Forces and Imperial Glory (EIDOS).

Previous to Pyro, Unai was also Technical Director at Trilobite Graphic.

Unai is fluent in Spanish and English and also a lecturer on Graphics Programming at Universidad Complutense of Madrid.

Simon Lee Hsing
Creative and Design Director

Simon Lee Hsing games industry experience since the early '00s combined with pioneering mobile industry experience since the late '90s, bringing a unique cross skilled know-how to Digital Legends.

He was previously the Producer for Nokia's award winner "ONE Sequel", Associate Producer for "Soccer Fury" and Designer for "ONE" at Digital Legends .

Prior to these roles, he served as a Project Manager and Founder at Iverywhere S.L. and as Designer and Product Manager for WAP Services at Latinia S.A. His hardware experience includes possibly most mobile devices and smartphones since 2000.

He is fluent in Spanish, English and Chinese Mandarin.

Simon Lee Hsing has a Master degree in Videogames Creation from the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. He also holds a Masters Degree in Software Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Barcelona and a Bachelor Degree in Industrial Design Engineering in Automotive from Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona.

Nino Ceraolo
Head of Production

Nino has a vast experience in the games industry working at Psygnosis, Sony Computer Entertainment and Telcogames.

He is highly skilled in leading development strategies and making decisions to aid completion of projects on time and to budget.
He has covered roles crossing most departments and this provides him with a clear understanding of the games industry from every perspective.

His career has seen him release titles on PC, PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP, DS and mobile, and worked on titles such as the Wipeout series, Formula One, SIL and many more.

Liam Patton
VP of Sales & BD

Liam brings experience in Sales, Business Development and global Marketing roles in several industries since the mid 90's. He has been involved from the early days of mobile gaming since he joined Nokia Mobile Phones in the late 90's serving in different positions such as Games SDK Product Marketing Manager and Developer Relations from the Entertainment and Media Games Division, launching the first N-Gage Developer Program worldwide.

He joined Digital Legends from the leading consumer sporting goods Nike in Barcelona, where he was heading the Football Sports Marketing department, negotiating endorsement deals for international elite players and executing the Football World Cup and European Championships Brand Campaigns.

Liam holds a B.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering and a post-graduate in Telematics, Information and Communications Technology.

Sandra Hidalgo
Finance Manager

Sandra has a very solid experience in Finance, Audit and Accounting, since the mid 90's.

She started her career in Ernst & Young Audit in 1994 as Senior Auditor. She then joined Smith & Nephew as Financial Controller and spent 10 year leading the Controlling and Accounting department. She joined Digital Legends as Finance Manager taking the Company to the next level on financial processes, internal control and reporting.

Sandra holds a degree in Economics (MSc.), from the University of Barcelona (Public and Private corporations Branch) and a also a post-graduate in Management Processes from ESADE University, Barcelona.