Brian Joyce, Senior Vice President, National Ad Sales, A+E and History worked his way up to sales management from an assistant at CNN in the 1990s. His career path took him to A+E Networks in the early years of History, to Sony syndication and then back to A+E at a time when History was gaining in distribution and audience. Now his responsibilities include managing the sales teams of both A+E and History networks in a media ecosystem that contains linear, digital, cross platform, programmatic and addressable elements.