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Tim Sexton
Founder & CEO
The Sexton Company

Tim Sexton is the founder of The Sexton Company which provides integrated brand experiences and implementation services to companies interested in "doing well by doing good." He has worked in senior management positions or as a consultant for motion picture studios, record labels, professional sports and Fortune 100 corporations. Tim first learned about E2 through conversations with friends at NRDC regarding some of his firm’s client work. He was attracted to E2’s strategy of engaging the business community to voice its belief that sound environmental policies stimulate innovation, grow the economy and create jobs. This belief aligned with the professional objectives of Tim’s company, which helps transform corporations and institutions by creating strategy and content that put authenticity in a story that makes brand leaders. These efforts regularly involve developing and implementing ’greening’ and sustainable operating practices and programs that demonstrate how an organization walks what it talks.

Tim, who lives in Pacific Palisades, accepted the role of Chapter Leader for E2’s Southern California group in early 2004 because he saw an opportunity to help advance protecting the planet as a mandate for business to insure our children’s future. Since accepting the E2 role in Southern California, Tim successfully recruited new E2 members through focused networking, countless meetings, and hosting E2 events. Tim has assisted Southern California chapter members in playing important roles in supporting regional, as well as state-wide, E2 policy objectives. He has also represented Southern California on E2 advocacy trips to Sacramento, where his participation was critical in meetings with Los Angeles area legislators.

He was Executive Producer of the Live 8 concerts involving more than 150 artists performing live in nine cities on four continents in a single day. Live 8 was witnessed by a worldwide broadcast and internet audience of three billion people and raised global awareness of the consequences of extreme poverty. As a result, the G8 nations agreed to major policy commitments forgiving debt, providing un-tethered aid, and free HIV/AIDS medication to the world’s poorest countries. He was decorated with an Emmy Award for Live 8. In 2007, he was an Executive Producer of American Idol Gives Back, the most successful television charity event in history, which raised $75 million for a host of organizations working to help those living in extreme poverty in America and in Africa. The program was awarded a special Emmy by the Television Academy.

Although Tim has been active in support of environmental causes for many years, he believes his learning and articulation on a variety of environmental issues has been sharpened and refined through conversations with his E2 and NRDC colleagues. "My involvement with E2 has increased my knowledge base considerably and helped me become a more articulate evangelist for environmental issues and advocate for policies that will protect our future and that of our childrens’ children."