A+E Networks Promotes Advertising Sales Executives

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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A+E Networks have promoted three advertising sales executives who also have responsibility for overseeing the company’s regional sales efforts.

Christine Olson was named VP for ad sales and will be responsible for the company’s Chicago-based ad sales team.

Lisa Mallen was named VP, ad sales and will oversee the Eastern Region.

The Western region will be the responsibility of Heath Pisarcik, also named VP, ad sales.

“I am thrilled to announce these promotions which reinforce our targeted sales approach by entrenching best in service teams across dedicated territories,” said Peter Olsen, executive VP A+E Networks. “Christine, Lisa and Heath are proven leaders with over sixty years of agency and sales experience between them, and I look forward to their immediate contributions as they bring strategic solutions and opportunists to our customers.”

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.