Jerry Calliste Jr.

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Jerry Calliste Jr.’s Summary

Jerry Calliste Jr. a lateral thinker, early stage entrepreneur, energetic team leader has for the past 25 plus years successfully founded, co-founded and executive managed entertainment companies, promoted artists and events, licensed and sold music B2C and B2B worldwide. He developed and partnered music companies that collectively sold an "estimated" 5.0M units, roughly 2.5M units sold on one title worldwide. His peers say he is "an authority" on music marketing, music licensing, and independent talent development.

Since 1983 and 1985, he is registered as a songwriter and music publisher member of ASCAP respectively. His music appears on 70+ music compilations, of which 30 or more of those licensing deals occurred since 2003. He appears on: Universal Music TV (UK) Definitive Electro" (2xCD), Universal Music (UK) compilation, Virgin Records (UK), Streetsounds/ Streetwave Records (UK), Pianola Music - (FR), Virgin (UK), Polydor (GER), Kontor (GER), popular video games DJ Hero Renegade Edition (2009), Sony Computer Entertainment of America's NBA Shootout 2004 and the popular Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto Vice City video game, TV commercial and Sony/ Epic Records soundtrack the Wildstyle Station for GTA Vice City. Calliste Jr. receives int'l acclaim worldwide primarily in UK, NETH, GER, FR, JP and CAN.

Calliste Jr. is a natural at identifying opportunities and new trends related to new business ventures, entertainment, branding and marketing. Since 1997 he researched and worked on Internet based projects favoring the LAMP platform and digital media MP3, .WAV, DRM, H.263/H.264, streaming HD, broadband, and 3G/4G mobile device integration.

He attends the Ross School of Management and Leadership at Franklin University. He is a double major BSc in IT and BSc in MIS student (expected 2011/2012). He also studies fractals, statistics, randomness, chaos and mathematical modeling. He is fluent in English, strengthening his Spanish and learning Mandarin Chinese.