StreamSearch LIVE Leadership

As Chief Content Officer (CCO) at StreamSearch LIVE, Marty Lafferty is a highly regarded senior-level creative leader. In this role, he is pioneering the transformation of user-generated live video content into a commercially viable television genre, monetized by traditional TV programmers as well as over-the-top (OTT) streaming video entrants. Marty also serves as Managing Partner of Lafferty Media Partners (LMP), which has provided award-winning digital video production and delivery services to more than two-hundred technology sector companies and federal government agencies. As founding CEO of DCIA, he grew and expanded the high-value digital content trade organization exponentially in a decade-and-a-half of service to its diverse international membership. Marty also held senior management roles at new media start-ups including CEO of Zoom Culture and President of FutureVision, where he led creative brand development to deliver substantial financial growth. Finally, Marty was CEO of NBC’s Olympics joint venture with Cablevision, providing hands-on supervision of the first multi-channel coverage of the Summer Games, and Marketing VP of Microsoft’s MSNTV, driving the conversion of WebTV to Xbox. He holds a Master’s degree from Yale and a Bachelor’s degree from Williams College. Marty was honored with a Boating Safety Challenge Coin in 2019 by the U.S. Coast Guard for leadership of America's Boating Channel and received the United States Power Squadrons 2018 Chief Commander's Award. He was named International Trade CEO of the Year in the Global CEO Excellence Awards for 2017.

Electronic Engineer/Architect - a dynamic, strategically focused technical leader with extensive experience and a broad range of skills in multiple aspects of integrated circuit and systems development, ranging from high level architecture to low level circuit design.

· Leader of multi-disciplined technical teams in areas of strategy, market analysis, product definition, solution creation, architecture, project execution and deployment.

· Experienced in client-facing technical roles in a multi-national environment including technical marketing, sales support, leading client technical workshops, product requirements negotiation, client architecture and solutions development.

· Proven track record of creative problem solving and innovation, evidenced by 25 US Patents issued plus numerous internal technical disclosures, architectural documents, technical briefings and specifications published.

· Subject matter expert in Games, Multimedia, Consumer Electronics -- current areas of expertise in Consumer Electronics include Video Games, Digital TV, Set-Top-Box, Digital Camera and Mobile Media platforms..

Specialties: Electronic Engineer / Architect, Creative Problem Solver, Innovator, Technical Team / Project Leader, Technical Marketing and Strategy, Research and Development.

Subject Matter Expert: Consumer Electronics - Multimedia, Video, Games, Graphics, Mobile, ...

Curtis Symonds is a Chief Marketing Officer at StreamSearch LIVE and is based in Tampa, Florida.