Col “Hollywood” Fraser is a speaker, trainer, coach and facilitator of ideas in sport with a successful track record addressing a range of topics from organisational behaviour in sport, sports marketing and event management, sport & entertainment, life after sport, creativity thinking, culturing your brand, sponsorship, raising funds and team building for dysfunctional management workshops.
Colin Fraser started as an 18 year old professional rugby league player, representing NSW under 18’s and first grade with the St George Dragons then Sydney City Roosters, the Central Coast and Western Australia in Rugby League and Touch Football competing in Australia and overseas against international teams from France and New Zealand.
He founded the i4 Consulting Group, a worldwide network of sports marketing and management consultants offering global expertise to local markets that designed successful post sales & marketing campaigns for the Sydney, Athens and Beijing Olympics. His private sports marketing company also developed the intellectual property and raised the initial capital for the launch of e-sportsclub worldwide limited prior to the Sydney 2000 Olympics which at the time was the first registered online sports club in the world. He is still a board member of a number of companies and not for profit organisations.
With formal media training and media reporting along with a list of published articles and conference papers covering topics from attracting sponsorship to its accountability, team building and management, as well as membership and revenue generating campaigns.
He combines his speaking engagements with heading up Burbank International – Sports & Entertainment and owning number of hospitality venues. He is a husband, father of two 20 something boys, BBQ Raconteur, White Ribbon Foundation Ambassador and a Rotarian.
He is currently on the “Born to be Wild – World Tour” speaking about consumer product marketing for baby boomers.