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D. Fraser Bullock is an entrepreneur and was among the founding members of Bain Capital and a manager at Bain & Company. He is a partner of Sorenson Capital. He was inducted into the Utah Technology Council Hall of Fame.

Bullock was COO and CFO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. He is president and CEO of the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee For The Games, bidding for the 2034 games to be held in Utah. Salt Lake City was named as the preferred host for 2034 Olympics during a “watch party” at the Salt Lake City and County Building in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, November 29, 2023. On July 24, 2024, Pioneer Day in Utah, he and other state leaders will be in Paris when members of the International Olympics Committee cast the final vote on awarding the Games.

"When the two top bosses of the 2006 Winter Games, in Torino, Italy, were fired by their Italian overseers in early 2005, IOC leaders sent Bullock to pore over the plans, the one time he was paid for his work. IOC leaders sent Bullock to Brazil when preparations for the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro stalled, and had him train senior staff for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. . . . Other Olympic roles for Bullock included being named to the IOC coordination commission that oversaw the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, Canada, near where he’d lived as a young child before growing up in Calgary."[1]

He serves on the boards of several businesses, including Chairman of the Board of the Polynesian Cultural Center.[2]

Bullock holds both an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brigham Young University.

He and his wife, Jennifer, have five children. He served as an Area Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the end of 2002 to May 2011.[3]

He told UtahValley360 about his brush with death.

Nearly 18 months ago [2015], Bullock was headed from Highland to his office in Lehi. Right after he got in the commuter lane, he had a heart attack.

“I was in so much pain and was getting nauseous — and going 55 miles per hour,” he says. “I said to myself, ‘I’m going to die and I need to get off the road so I don’t hurt anybody.’”

He turned toward the Traverse Mountain Outlets and parked on the side of the road. He jumped out of his truck, doubled over in pain while he tried — but failed — to communicate to the 911 operator. Then, a one-in-a-million miracle.

“I saw one truck coming from the other direction, and he slowed down and called out his window, ‘Can I help you?’” Bullock recalls.

It was his son-in-law. The two rushed to the hospital where Bullock’s life was saved.[4][5]

He spent six months recovering from emergency surgery to deal with a completely blocked artery caused by genetic blood disorder and in a second procedure, the installation of a defibrillator.

“I’ve gained a great appreciation to stop and look at the beautiful world we have to live in. The fabric of our lives is made up of family and friendships, and I’ve always felt my life was meaningful. But now I’m at a completely different level,” he says.[6]

• Deseret News, "From 2002 to 2034, the man who brought the Olympics back to Utah"