FORT LAUDERDALE—MultiMedia Platforms, Inc., the only LGBTQ media company traded on the New York Stock Exchange, has announced the appointment of Peter A. Jackson as president and group executive publisher.
Jackson will be responsible for the overall growth, leadership and operation of the Fort Lauderdale-based company and all its publications and digital media effective May 1, 2015. He will sit as a member of the board of directors.
“This is a time of unprecedented opportunity for MMP as this nation’s only publicly-traded LGBTQ media entity,” said CEO Bobby Blair. “Peter’s vast knowledge and hands-on experience in publishing and digital media for nearly three decades will help us to identify and seize the best opportunities before us and emerge the force in LGBTQ media not only in North America but globally.”
Jackson, 52, brings credibility and experience to the media group which recently purchased Fun Maps, LGBTQ city guide maps which cover 40-plus cities across the United States and Canada. The Agenda newspaper and Guy lifestyle magazine are its flagship publications. Additional print and online media platforms are being negotiated for purchase at the time of this release.
Jackson is a 29-year veteran of the publishing industry whose career in the publishing business has run the gamut from journalist, editor, publisher and owner to experience on a national level as a corporate executive for one of the nation’s largest privately-owned media chains where he served as vice president of sales and marketing overseeing 120-plus publications in 12 states and the Caribbean.
Later, as president of a media sales training consulting business, Jackson helped multimedia groups make the transition from print to web, trained hundreds of advertising sales reps and has been a speaker at North America’s leading print industry associations including Inland Press, the New York Press Association and the Canadian Press Association.
He has experience in LGBTQ media as well, having served at one time as sales director for a leading publishing group which included the Washington Blade, New York Blade, Southern Voice and Houston Voice.
Jackson semi-retired to Fort Lauderdale in 2009. An avid fitness and nutrition advocate, he opened and owns Push Fitness, a personal training and group fitness business, Club One CrossFit and other fitness enterprises.
“Three forces–political, social and economic, respectively–are merging like a perfect storm for the LGBTQ community in this nation,” said Jackson, “and the timing could not be better for LGBTQ Americans to have a strong international media network. Corporate America is showing its support for equality in unprecedented numbers and is awakening to the $850 billion economic power of the LGBTQ demographic. I am thrilled to be a part of it.”
