Lawrence Harte is senior editor of IPTV Magazine and Social TV Magazine where he has interviewed over 3800 companies since 2005. He is the founder of Internet TV Plus conferences and host of Internet TV Plus podcast. He is vice president of business development for roomioTV Hotel TV systems where he defined new services and installed/setup private television systems. Mr. Harte has worked for leading companies including Ericsson/General Electric, Audiovox/Toshiba and Westinghouse and has been an expert consultant for leading companies including Google TV, Samsung, Rovi, and others. As of 2017, he authored over 114 books on TV technologies and business on topics including Internet TV Systems, MPEG, and IPTV Basics. Mr. Harte holds many degrees and certificates including an Executive MBA from Wake Forest University (1995) and a BSET from the University of the State of New York, (1990).