diff --git a/examples/exec_tag_sync.cu b/examples/exec_tag_sync.cu
index 0ef4ee7..1366931 100644
--- a/examples/exec_tag_sync.cu
+++ b/examples/exec_tag_sync.cu
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
 // Used to initialize input data:
 #include <thrust/sequence.h>
 
+// Used to run the benchmark on a CUDA stream
+#include <thrust/execution_policy.h>
+
 // `sequence_bench` measures the execution time of `thrust::sequence`. Since
 // algorithms in `thrust::` implicitly sync the CUDA device, the
 // `nvbench::exec_tag::sync` must be passed to `state.exec(...)`.
diff --git a/examples/exec_tag_timer.cu b/examples/exec_tag_timer.cu
index 6aab858..812dda8 100644
--- a/examples/exec_tag_timer.cu
+++ b/examples/exec_tag_timer.cu
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
 // Thrust simplifies memory management, etc:
 #include <thrust/copy.h>
+#include <thrust/execution_policy.h>
 #include <thrust/device_vector.h>
 #include <thrust/sequence.h>