NATHANAEL JACKSON

Growing up in a household where music was the family business, I developed an early fascination not just with the art itself, but with the complex ecosystem that makes the music industry tick. That curiosity shaped a career path at the intersection of creativity, data, and finance, focused on ensuring the people who create the music we love are compensated fairly and accurately for their work.

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My journey started where most people wouldn't expect for someone now working in royalties and data analytics: on the creative and technical side. Teaching piano, drums, songwriting, and music theory while serving as a front-of-house engineer and technology director gave me something most analysts don't have; a genuine understanding of what the numbers represent in human terms, because I've lived on the creative side of those numbers.

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That foundation carried me into the business infrastructure of the industry. At BMI, I worked in royalty processing and rights administration, introducing workflow improvements that reduced average client response time from three weeks to just one week. At FBMM, I handled comprehensive music business management for touring artists, managing everything from financial reporting to royalty tracking. In music publishing administration, I designed automated workflows using Python, SQL, and VBA, and provided AI policy research at the intersection of publishing contracts and emerging technology regulation.

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My technical toolkit spans SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI, and advanced Excel, alongside industry-specific platforms and metadata standards including CWR, ISRC, ISWC, and IPI codes. Academically, I hold dual master's degrees from Trevecca Nazarene University in Finance and Accounting and Sports and Entertainment Industry Management, plus a B.S. in Recording Arts and Technology from Full Sail University, supplemented by professional development through Harvard Business School Online and Berklee College of Music.

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Whether I'm reconciling complex royalty discrepancies, automating workflows that save hours of manual processing, or researching how emerging technologies will reshape the industry, the goal remains constant: building solutions that serve both the art and the artist. The music industry's greatest strength has always been its ability to bring people together; my contribution is ensuring the systems behind the music work with the same precision and integrity that the art itself deserves.