PremiumMatt NippertBusiness Investigations Reporter·NZ Herald·18 Jun, 2026 10:00 PM7 mins to read‌Jamie Beaton, chief executive of Crimson Education, and Priscilla Beaton in New York in May at their joint graduation from the Columbia School of Journalism.Jamie Beaton is all grown up. Not vertically – he’s still slight of stature, barely five feet – but the one-time Boy Wonder of business is now entering his thirties.

He finally got invested in the business of life, getting married in April on a Venice Beach boardwalk to his