Managing Director
Adrian Sexton
Adrian is Managing Director of Rainmakers Ltd which provides cross-border strategic M&E marketing and development to help diversify brands.
A seasoned entrepreneurial executive and operator, Sexton has helped raise over $1.3 billion in media investments for TMT (Tech, Media and Telecom) companies and headed digital creative and busness at three media companies - Lionsgate Entertainment, Jeff Skoll’s Participant Media and Endemol Shine Group (a JV between 21st Century Fox and Apollo Group).
He also founded and merged two media strategy agencies, managing such diverse clients as WPP, Qualcomm, Wipro, Sony Pictures, Ogilvy, Vevo, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Comcast, Sony Music Asia, General Assembly (acquired by Adecco), Next Generation Esports (acquired by Vindex), BRaVE Ventures (acquired by Turner), Groupon and the Australian Government.
In startups, Sexton was recently US CEO of Titan Platform, a global smart content and device AI company with headquarters in the US, South Korea, China and Singapore. Prior to, he was Chief Developer Officer at Dynamics, a fintech B2B2C company building out an ‘iTunes for Rewards’ with $110M in funding from Bain Capital Ventures and MasterCard.
Sexton also interned and worked with Sony Television and HBO Pictures during his USC graduate degree program in film, and lives with his family in Los Angeles, California.
M&A and Capital Raising:
Mediapact Capital: $500M, leading to management control at Lionsgate
Lionsgate Entertainment: $500M, multiple offerings, including Trimark and Artisan acquisitions with JPMorgan
Participant Media: $300M, Abu Dhabi Imagenation P&A fund and Summit Entertainment investment (acquired by Lionsgate for $412.5M)
Startups >$150M, as lead business executive for Dynamics (fintech), Titan Platform (AI & IoT) and multiple startups
Relevant Skill Sets:
Media, Technology & Entertainment Strategy, Marketing & Business Development
Direct-to-Consumer (DTC), Distribution and AVOD/SVOD OTT Channel Building
Deep Global M&E, Brand, Capital Market’s Network
Tenures in Content, IP & Tech Operations with Masters in Film at USC and Undergrad at Cornell University
Product Innovations:
Titan Play - Smart content AI-enabled platform for set-top and IoT devices
ICON lifestyle and eSports - Launched global OTT channels across 20 digital networks
TakePart social action network for entertainment and social causes in partnership with American Express’ Members Project
BMW Films Digital Cinema series and pre-show advertising exhibitor programming
ePlate Rewards Program (“iTunes for Rewards”) for powered payment cards
Microsoft Multi-Movie DVD series for physical retailers including Walmart, Best Buy and others
Marketed over 100 films, television and digital series including Academy Award-winning Crash, Monster’s Ball, An Inconvenient Truth, The Cove and others
Awards & Boards:
Endemol Beyond awarded Multi-Channel Network (MCN) of the Year - 2015
Screen Actors Guild (SAG) "Backstage Digital All-Star" - 2013
British Airways "Face of Opportunity" Entrepreneur Award & Grant - 2009
Cannes Film Festival Inaugural Digital Keynote - 2007
Academy Award-winning team for “Crash” Best Picture – 2006
Clio Award for "SAW" Digital Marketing - 2004
Program Director & New Media Council: Producers Guild of America and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Advisory Board Member: Independent Spirit Awards, Games for Change and IPTV Standards
Media & Press:
BANKABL, a Global Accelerator for Diversity in Media & Technology, Forms Strategic Cross-Border Partnership with SEACRUX, an APAC Go-to-Market Company (link)
Titan Platform Forms Strategic Partnership with China Unicom for Smart Content and Device Telecommunication Sales in China (link)
Titan Platform Engages Deloitte for Investment Banking & Accounting Towards $100 Million Capital Raise (link)
Korea’s Titan Platform Hires Former Endemol Shine Exec Adrian Sexton for U.S. Expansion (link)
Endemol Beyond USA announced Thursday that its ICON network is launching three original series on Verizon's mobile video-streaming service (link)
Endemol Lines Up Cast for U.S. ‘Legends of Gaming’ Esports Show (link)
People on the Move: Endemol Beyond USA Names Adrian Sexton as COO (link)
Adrian Sexton Named as Program Director for Producers Guild of America (PGA) Produced by Conference 2012 (link)