Jason Kimball Peterson (born November 1, 1981) is a media mogul, attorney, producer, entrepreneur, founder and chairman of multi-national conglomerate

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. In 2009, he was named one of the "Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30" by the ''

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''. In 2014, Jason was awarded the coveted “Industry Leadership” Award by the Entertainment Merchants Association, the trade group for the $35 billion home entertainment industry. 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 Mitú, respectively. Peterson has worked with artists including Daddy Yankee, Janet Jackson, Jason Derulo, Master P, 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 video 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

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, where he produced movies, commercials and music videos including "Stars" for Switchfoot in 2006, and TobyMac's "Boomin'", which won a Gospel Music Association Music Video of the Year in 2008. At 19 years old he produced ''The Beat'', which was shown at the

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in 2003. Peterson earned his bachelor's degree from the

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at the

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(2004) and holds a J.D. from

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(2007). He is an active member of the California Bar Association.

Discography

Music Videos

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