- Adrian Sexton
Adrian Sexton is the Executive Vice President of Digital at
Participant Productions . Sexton oversees digital media branding, advertising and global media content strategy in film, home entertainment and television. In 2006, he co-founded TAG Strategic, a media and entertainment solutions agency, with managing partner Ted Cohen, formerly withEMI .Previously, Sexton headed Digital Media as Vice President at
Lions Gate Entertainment , a producer of motion picture, television and other filmed entertainment content worldwide. Sexton oversaw the day-to-day production, operations, programming, media planning and business development for all of Lionsgate’s online and mobile properties including such titles asAmerican Psycho , Academy Award winnerMonster's Ball ,Michael Moore 'sFahrenheit 9/11 , the interactiveClio -awardedSaw ,Diary of a Mad Black Woman , Academy Award-winningCrash ,Saw II andQuentin Tarantino ’sHostel . Sexton also facilitated a $350 million credit facility withJP Morgan Chase , involving the acquisition ofArtisan Entertainment . Working closely with senior management, since Sexton joined Lions Gate, the market capitalization of the company rose from $80 million to $1.2 billion dollars.A frequent media presenter, he gave the 2007 digital keynote at the
Cannes Film Festival in France, the studio keynote at the 2006Intel Viiv announcement in Tokyo and the studio keynote at the 2006Forrester Research led conference in Brazil. Sexton has presented at several media conferences, includingCES ,CTIA , Digital Hollywood, iHollywood Forum and Digital Media Summit. Additionally, he has lectured at USC’s Digital Arts School andPepperdine ’s Graziadio School of Business & Management; and has been quoted in major newspapers. He is also an advisory board member on theInteractive TV (ITV) Standards Committee, and sits on the advisory committees for the Los Angeles Film Festival and Academy of Television Arts & SciencesEmmys .Sexton graduated with a dual
B.A. in Government and English fromCornell University and received his Masters in Film from theUniversity of Southern California as aPhi Kappa Phi fellow.
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.