Biography:
Born in Las Vegas during the summer of 1982, Jack
Colton grew up within a family that seemingly had at least some
sort of a connection with every major “mover and shaker”
within the Las Vegas Valley of the time. His Father worked along
side the likes of Steve Wynn, Bruce Woodbury, Don Ashcroft, and
Ralph Lamb. His Mother had a little black book that included many
of the real-life notorious Vegas names that the blockbuster movie
“Casino” starring Robert Deniro were based upon (Frank
Rosenthal, Tony Spilatro, Frank Ellis, and the Stewart family
– who, as a matter of fact, are Colton and his sister’s
God Parents).
In 1990, Colton’s
family moved from all of the bright lights and decadent action
that Las Vegas provided them, and settled into a town with a bustling
population of 3,000 – Muldrow, Oklahoma. After five (5)
years of living amongst an entirely different “country”
lifestyle, Colton’s family moved to college-town Norman,
Oklahoma where they remain to this day.
At age 15,
Colton took a payroll coordinator position within his father’s
trucking business “The Whelchel Company.” By the age
of 16, Colton became heavily involved in the quickly growing “internet
boom” by developing slick startups such as the shopping
network “NationalDeals.com,” and adult networking
provider “Nighttalks.com” (both now defunct). Three
years later, Colton’s company “DoConnections”
had two office locations, was responsible for portions of the
State of Oklahoma’s tourism ad campaigns, and actively assisted
in the production and promotion of eight (8) major concert events
each year.
At nineteen
years old, Jack Colton was the youngest member of the Oklahoma
Chamber of Commerce, and proudly served alongside State Senators
and fellow business owners on the State Tourism, Aviation, and
Art’s & Humanities Committees. Randall Turk of the Norman
Transcript described Colton as “the true definition of the
modern business trends to come in years hence.”
In March of
2003, Colton closed shop in Oklahoma and returned to Las Vegas
for greater entrepreneurial challenges and to completely immerse
himself into the entertainment side of the ‘Entertainment
Capital of the World.’ Not wanting to capitalize on his
family name (which very few people actually know) or his parent’s
vast connections throughout the Las Vegas Valley, he took a position
as a Street Promoter passing out flyers for Seven Nightclub.
Three months later Colton was the Director of Venue Marketing
for the club, and later the Marketing Director for both Seven
and Men, The Show.
Resigning
Seven in late 2004, Colton wanted to get back into the swing of
business again, but ended up starting a complete 2 year immersion
into the Las Vegas nightlife scene. Almost every night of the
week, he and his friends would be patrons of some of the most
sought after nightclubs on the planet, and Colton was taking a
lot of notes for the project that would be his first return to
the business world in three (3) years – nightlife publication
JackColton.com.
Immediately
following the June 2006 launch of JackColton.com, “Lifestyles
of the Rich and Famous” creator Robin Leach invited Jack
Colton to join the likes of Lance Burton, Wolfgang Puck, and George
Maloof in writing a guest column on his popular AOL editorial
“The Luxe Life” about how to be a ‘true VIP’
in Las Vegas. Features in The LA Times, The NY Times, on the main
page of AOL.com, Strip LV Magazine, Kiss Magazine, and in UrbanMonarch.com
soon followed. Not surprisingly, JackColton.com was almost immediately
considered one of the most popular 500,000 websites in the world
by internet rating provider Alexa.com (currently number 240,070
to be exact). In January of 2007, Colton was honored as one of
the top "30 under 30" by Light Nightclub and 944 Magazine
- a celebration of the top 30 movers and shakers in the Las Vegas
Valler under the age of 30.
Colton is
currently continuing work on the popular JackColton.com project,
is a contributing writer to the Las Vegas Weekly, Strip Magazine,
and enjoys many co-promotions with area media outlets.
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Written by Damara De Stefanos
Disclaimer
from Colton:
It was brought to my attention that I needed to have a solid biography
for this site, others, and as a fact sheet for the press. I had
Damara De Stefanos write this. My apologies for the serious tone.
