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Tim Sexton

Screenwriter & Producer

Tim is an Emmy Award winner with groundbreaking achievements across multiple content creation and distribution platforms. He was Executive Producer of Live 8, the largest music event in history that aggregated a global broadcast audience of 3 billion. Live 8 resulted in the G8 nations changing their policies on debt relief and HIV/AIDS treatment for all affected children in the world’s poorest countries. It remains the gold standard in video streaming, garnering a Webby Award as one the 10 events that shaped the Internet (it was also the largest mobile event in history generating 26 million text messages). Later, Tim was a producer of television’s defining charity event, Idol Gives Back, which raised $80 million in a single night and received a special Emmy Governor’s Award.

Tim is the Co-Founder of E2 (Southern California), the business voice of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Tim is a corporate board member of the Environmental Media Association, a director of Rock The Classroom, Seven Arrows Elementary School, advisor to the Liberty Hill Foundation, and the Violence Policy Center. He was the creator of MTV’s Feel the Power and a director of Rock the Vote.