Surbiton, England, United Kingdom
Frazer is an experienced Director with a demonstrated history of working in events, exhibitions, trade associations and the media industry. Skilled in marketing management, negotiation, team leadership, business planning & budgeting, and sales training. He has been board director in three companies and was Managing Director of FESPA - a leading international trade association in the print sector. He was one of three owners of FM Brooks which launched the highly successful EcoPrint and InPrint. In 2018 Frazer sold his shares in FM Brooks and with his long time business partner Marcus Timson set up FM Future for the next challenge. FM Future is a Print community of over 10,000 members and specialises in helping print businesses connect via social media, Live and Virtual events and their online Digital Platform – FuturePrint. Frazer is an excellent speaker on change management, launching new businesses, innovation and leadership. He regularly writes interesting and informative articles on the growth of Print and business trends.
FM Future is an independent strategic business development consultancy run by Frazer Chesterman and Marcus Timson. We specialise in helping leaders, entrepreneurs and teams to bring their ideas to life and their products to market by improving their sales, storytelling, insight, ideation, PR and marketing. Within the Conference, Exhibition and Event world we have recently launched a new service for Event Organisers called Event LaunchPad. We run day long training workshops and offer consultancy for event organisers who want to launch more shows. The workshops should be attended by key team members within the event business and often lead quickly to great ideas turning into new events. FM Future can also help with launching and advising in a consultative capacity using our combined experience of 45 years of organising and developing new events. Find out more about our services at : www.fmfuturenow.com
In October 2011, Frazer Chesterman began a new business FM Brooks, which is part of the Mack Brooks Exhibitions Group, launching EcoPrint 2012, a new event focused on sustainable print. In May 2012, FM Brooks launched their second event – InPrint 2014. InPrint is the leading trade-show focused upon industrial print technology, innovation and production. It took place alongside Europe’s largest Manufacturing Fair – the Hannover Messe April 8th -10th 2014. InPrint 2014 was an amazing success and the team quickly sold out their next event InPrint 2015 in Munich and then launched InPrint in Milan, Italy 2016 focused on Decoration and Textile. The InPrint events, which now take place in Germany, Italy and the USA generate over £3m in sales revenue, with clients such as HP, Canon, Ricoh and Xerox. In 2017 Frazer launched a new event PURE DIGITAL 2018, in Amsterdam, a ground-breaking and unique event designed to excite the European creative industry with truly innovative digitally printed applications. Unlike traditional print-based trade-shows, Pure Digital’s event format, content and style was specifically designed to appeal to the creative industry including: creative directors, architects, interior designers, graphic designers, fashion designers, marketers and print service providers. Within one single and exclusive European event, Pure Digital showcased and celebrated the very best of creative design within digitally printed applications. Pure Digital was an immediate success and is planned for a second event in October 2019.
Frazer Chesterman was appointed by FESPA in May 2003 to the role of Exhibition Director, to spearhead the global development of the organisation’s internal exhibitions department, and oversee all aspects of FESPA exhibitions. In recognition of his subsequent contribution to the growth and success of FESPA, he was appointed FESPA Managing Director in 2007. The first exhibition executed by Frazer and the in-house organising team was FESPA 2005 in Munich. At the time, this was the biggest FESPA exhibition in terms of exhibitors and visitors to date, a record was broken again by FESPA 2007. Since joining FESPA, Frazer has also added new shows to the organisation’s events portfolio, including the successful FESPA India 05 & 07 and FESPA Digital Printing Europe 06, 08 & 09, FESPA Mexico 08 & 09 and FESPA Asia Pac 08. These shows have since become a permanent fixture in the trade show calendar and will be joined by FESPA Singapore, FESPA Americas and FESPA Brazil in 2010 and 2011. Frazer is currently working on launching new events globally in a number of target regions. Frazer brings over 16 years of valuable commercial experience in the exhibitions, conference and publishing sectors to FESPA. Frazer was a board member of the FESPA board. FESPA employs 25 people in the UK, as well as staff in Thailand, Mexico, Spain, and Brazil FESPA shows from 2003: FESPA Munich 2005 FESPA World Expo Delhi 2005 - launch FESPA Digital Amsterdam 2006 – launch FESPA European Summit 2007 FESPA Berlin 2007 – largest ever FESPA show- 11 halls & 70,000 sqm FESPA Digital Geneva 2008 FESPA European Summit Budapest 2008 FESPA Mexico – purchase (negotiated purchase) FESPA Asia Pac – Bangkok 2008 - launch FESPA Digital India 2008 - launch FESPA World Expo India 2009 FESPA Global summit – Miami 2009 FESPA Munich 2010 – set to break all exhibitors and visitor records FESPA Americas 2011 – USA FESPA Digital 2011 – Hamburg FESPA Asia 2011 - Singapore
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