CHRISTOPHER SCOTT RAGSDALE
CHAIRMAN
For more than 30 years, Christopher has worked with governments, financial institutions, and private investors on investment, capital raising, and national development initiatives across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies (Political Science) from the University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley, he served as President of the Berkeley College Republicans. During his presidency, the Berkeley College Republicans became the second-largest College Republican organization in the United States.
Over the past 33 years, he has lived in 10 countries and established and led companies in Japan, China, Egypt, France, India, Malaysia, Monaco, the Czech Republic, Spain, South Africa, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
In 2002, he co-founded naseba and, within five years, took the company public on Euronext, becoming the first American to found and publicly list a company in France.
Throughout his career, he has participated in or led multi-billion-euro investment transactions and capital-raising initiatives. He also managed a joint venture with the Government of Egypt and the acquisition of a company in China.
Outside of business, Christopher is an avid endurance athlete who has completed multiple ironman triathlons, swum the English Channel, climbed several iconic mountains, finished the Marathon des Sables, and completed Naseba7—seven ironman-distance triathlons in seven consecutive days across the seven Emirates of the United Arab Emirates.
He is a strong believer in the power of fasting and prayer. In 2020, he fasted 275 days through periods of water and dry fasting, including three separate 40-day fasts.
Christopher has lived outside the United States since 1995, passed the highest level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (Level 1), and travelled to more than 140 countries, including numerous visits to areas of conflict such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
Christopher is based in Nice, France.
My search
The main purpose of this blog is to communicate with my employees, leaders at naseba, future employees, my clients, and future clients– at the same time helping me stay focused on my climb.
The photo gallery includes pictures of my different travels and adventures — this section will be updated with more pictures and videos as I travel.
I am posting the pictures of myself in exotic locations to show the readers, esp. the readers in America that the world is much different to what we see on CNN.
Pictures of my travels throughout the Middle East and Africa will hopefully inspire the reader to not let the misinformation in the media prevent you from experiencing the world.
We want the blog to become more interactive, however, we will not post comments which add no value to the discussion, even if the comment is very positive about the blog or me personally.
Please give your input or comment to the discussions, but ensure your comment adds something to the discussion.
Unlike other CEO blogs where the communications or marketing team writes the blog entries for the CEO, I write each entry myself. I travel often so sometimes there might be a few days between entries.
I write only when I have something to add to the discussion.
To keep the blog as focused as possible, I do not discuss or post blogs and pictures about my family.
Lastly, the main purpose of my blog is to manage myself.
If I am going to blog about staying positive – I must stay positive myself.
If I am going to blog about making life happen – I must make my life happen.
However, as loyal readers have noticed, I am also fighting against dishonesty, misinformation, mediocrity, and negativity, all which seem to be sweeping across the world like an uncontrollable virus.
