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 with EMI.

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 as American Psycho, Academy Award winner Monster's Ball, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, the interactive Clio-awarded Saw, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Academy Award-winning Crash, Saw II and Quentin Tarantino’s Hostel. Sexton also facilitated a $350 million credit facility with JP Morgan Chase, involving the acquisition of Artisan 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 2006 Intel Viiv announcement in Tokyo and the studio keynote at the 2006 Forrester Research led conference in Brazil. Sexton has presented at several media conferences, including CES, CTIA, Digital Hollywood, iHollywood Forum and Digital Media Summit. Additionally, he has lectured at USC’s Digital Arts School and Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business & Management; and has been quoted in major newspapers. He is also an advisory board member on the Interactive TV (ITV) Standards Committee, and sits on the advisory committees for the Los Angeles Film Festival and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Emmys.

Sexton graduated with a dual B.A. in Government and English from Cornell University and received his Masters in Film from the University of Southern California as a Phi Kappa Phi fellow.