Peter began his music industry career in 1979 and served as a senior executive for EMI Music Publishing in key markets around the world. In 1989, PolyGram Music offered him a joint venture deal for Peter to establish his own music publishing company, Janssongs. First headquartered in Sydney, Peter moved the operation to Los Angeles in 1996. In September of 2004 Janssongs was acquired by a New York investment group. In October of 2004, Peter and his partners signed a Joint Venture with the Chinese Government and set up CRC Jianian Cultural Development Co., Ltd. With offices in both Beijing and Los Angeles, the company quickly became one of the largest record labels and music publishers in the world, with an archive of 65,000 CD masters and over 750,000 copyrights. As President of the company, Peter was responsible for setting up worldwide digital distribution and sub-publishing deals, as well as overseeing the marketing and exploitation of the catalog. Over a career spanning more than 30 years, Peter has represented Paul McCartney, Queen, Kate Bush, A-ha, Foreigner, Cheap Trick, Neil Diamond, Roy Orbison, Divinyls, Roxette, Europe, Gilbert O’Sullivan, The Motels, Leo Sayer, Dexys Midnight Runners, Stevie Wonder, George Harrison, Blondie, Laura Branigan, Don McLean, Grace Jones, Juice Newton, Gerry Harrison (Talking Heads), The Wiggles, Little River Band, Ronnie Milsap and many others. Peter studied both Law and Music at Sydney University (Australia) as well as audio engineering at the School of Audio Engineering in Sydney. He is a regular guest at music conferences around the world, bringing his years of knowledge and experience to many Music Publishing panels. He is also a regular guest lecturer at the UCLA Music Extension course in Los Angeles, and is a frequent guest speaker for many songwriting associations.