Alecia Dixon-Kurschner, a TV distribution government who held senior positions at MGM, Miramax and Starz earlier than turning into an unbiased advisor a number of years in the past, died of ovarian most cancers at her residence within the Minneapolis suburb of Excelsior, Minnesota, Nov. 23. She was 60.
Her loss of life was introduced by her husband Dale Kurschner, who famous that she handed away peacefully surrounded by family members.
“Everybody that had the pleasure of figuring out or working with Alecia is heartbroken over her loss of life,” mentioned Simon Sutton, former President & CRO of HBO and to whom Dixon-Kurschner reported whereas each labored at MGM. “Alecia was far more than a valued government, she was additionally an irreplaceable pal.”
Dixon-Kurschner was born Could 10, 1963, in San Francisco and was raised in Troy, Michigan. After graduating from UCLA in 1987, she started her leisure profession at The Cannon Group, beginning out as an Government Assistant to the Chief Government Officer.
She was at Cannon when Pathe Communications took over the corporate and was later merged with MGM. Dixon-Kurschner continued at MGM via three completely different gross sales of the studio and superior to Senior Vice President of Distribution within the Tv Group, placing collectively a number of of the studio’s longterm output agreements with pay networks Showtime and HBO, amongst many different offers for the studio.
After leaving MGM in 2008, Dixon-Kurschner held senior management positions in tv distribution at Starz and Miramax earlier than shifting into an unbiased consulting function in 2020.
Along with her husband, Dixon-Kurschner is survived by their three youngsters Claire, Ben and Will; brother Michael Donaldson and spouse Heather; stepsister Sara Beasley and husband Invoice; stepbrothers Mike, Brien, Invoice and John Donaldson; and nieces, nephews and different prolonged household.
Funeral providers can be held Dec. 11 in Chanhassen, Minnesota, with a Celebration of Life deliberate for Los Angeles at a date to be decided.
