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Endemol Beyond USA has appointed Adrian Sexton, Participant Media’s former digital media VP, as chief operating officer. Mr. Sexton will oversee building new strategic partnerships and investments, business development, strategy, sales and distribution opportunities for the network. Before Participant Media, he was head of digital and business development at Lionsgate. He also served as chief developer officer at Dynamics and co-founded TAG Strategic and New Medici agencies.

The company also named Jeff Browning as senior VP-sales and Jenn Mancini as VP-East Coast sales. Mr. Browning comes from Univision Television, where he served as senior VP-network sales. Prior to Univision, he led West Coast sales for Spike TV at Viacom. Ms. Mancin, before joining the company, led Maker Studios’ East Coast lifestyle sales vertical and worked as VP at Base79. Mancini has also held senior sales and strategy positions at MySpace and CNET.

Essence announced three new senior level appointments. Rob Reifenheiser, the head of media for North America, has been promoted to managing director of the region, and global marketing director Cathy Carl will add new business to her list of responsibilities while serving as head of North American business development. The agency has also hired Mike Selman as managing director of the Seattle office.

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