Mark Garner is Senior Vice President, Distribution, Marketing and Business Development at A&E Television Networks. Garner oversees non-linear and digital content distribution, business development and affiliate marketing across all AETN networks including A&E Network, History, Bio Channel, History International and Crime & Investigation Network. Garner joined AETN in January, 2007 serving as Vice President, Distribution and Business Development. 

Prior to coming to AETN, Garner worked for Lifetime Entertainment Services beginning November of 2001 as Regional Account Director and rose to the position of Vice President of Distribution and Field Marketing.  He managed the affiliate sales and distribution efforts of the company’s three cable networks, Lifetime Television, Lifetime Movie Network (LMN) and Lifetime Real Women to multichannel video providers throughout the Eastern United States and the Caribbean. 

Garner worked as an executive at several start-up ventures, including a satellite broadcast distributed network based in Johannesburg South Africa, where he successfully increased the network’s distribution footprint from 5 African nations to 22 sub-Saharan countries.  Subsequent to his time in South Africa, he led business development efforts for a direct-to-consumer, on-line automotive sales venture during the dot com revolution. Garner has also held positions at MTV Networks and AT&T (formerly Pacific Bell) in sales, marketing and product management.

A long-time active member of the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC), Garner currently serves as Chairman of its National Board. He also serves on the CTAM Summit Planning Committee.

Garner earned a dual B.A. in Economics and Organizational Behavior from Stanford University.  Born in Detroit and raised in the New York metropolitan area, he now resides in South Orange, New Jersey with his wife Suzette and son, Santos.