Jason Kimball Peterson (born November 1, 1981) is a media mogul, attorney, producer, entrepreneur, founder and chairman of
GoDigital Media Group
GoDigital Media Group (GDMG) is a diversified multi-national conglomerate founded in 2006 by Jason Peterson and headquartered in Los Angeles. GDMG focuses on intellectual property rights management through divisions in music, video networks, and ...
.
In 2009, he was named one of the "Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30" by the ''
Los Angeles Business Journal
The ''Los Angeles Business Journal'', established in 1979, is a weekly newspaper and online news source in Los Angeles, California, which provides coverage of local business news. According to the ''Journals website, it has a weekly print circul ...
''. From 2017 to 2021, he was named as a "Top 40 under 40 Power Player" in music and home entertainment by both ''Billboard'' magazine and ''Media Play News'', respectively. From 2019 through 2022, he was named to ''Billboard's'' music industry "Indie Power Players List" and "Latin Power Players List" for managing Daddy Yankee's rights and buying Latino digital media company MitĂș, respectively.
Peterson has worked with artists including Daddy Yankee, Janet Jackson, Jason Derulo, and T.I.
Jason has served as a director for major music distributor MERLIN as well as the American Association of Independent Music (A2iM), the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN), the Repertoire Data Exchange (RDx) a joint venture between WIN and IFPI creating a global recorded music data exchange, the Music Business Association, OTT.x the trade association for the home entertainment industry, and the Music, Film and Entertainment Executive Board at City of Hope Hospital in Los Angeles.
Peterson was an owner of Symbolic Entertainment, located in
Marina del Rey, California
Marina del Rey ( Spanish for "Marina of the King") is an unincorporated seaside community in Los Angeles County, California, with an eponymous harbor that is a major boating and water recreation destination of the greater Los Angeles area. The ...
,
where he produced movies, commercials and music videos. At 19 years old he produced
''The Beat'', which was shown at the
Sundance Film Festival
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in 2003.
Peterson earned his bachelor's degree from the
Marshall School of Business
The USC Marshall School of Business is the business school of the University of Southern California. It is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
In 1997 the school was renamed following a $35 million donation fr ...
at the
University of Southern California
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(2004) and holds a
J.D.
JD or jd may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''JD'' (film), a 2016 Bollywood film
* J.D. (''Scrubs''), nickname of Dr. John Dorian, fictional protagonist of the comedy-drama ''Scrubs''
* JD Fenix, a character from the ''Gears of War'' vi ...
from
Pepperdine University School of Law
The Pepperdine University Rick J. Caruso School of Law (formerly Pepperdine University School of Law) is the law school of Pepperdine University, a private research university in Los Angeles County, California. The school offers the Juris Doctor ...
(2007).
He is an active member of the California Bar Association.
References
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1981 births
Chief executives in the media industry
Film producers from California
Businesspeople from Los Angeles
American web producers
UCLA Film School alumni
Living people
Marshall School of Business alumni
Pepperdine University School of Law alumni