biography
C. Scott Ragsdale,
Chairman
Scott Ragdale was born in 1971 in St. Petersburg, Florida and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with BA in Political Science in 1995.
At University in 1994, Scott was elected President of the Berkeley College Republicans and during his Presidency the club grew to the 2nd largest college republican club in America.
Prior to co-founding naseba in 2002, he worked as a general manager for a global business information company in seven different international cities: Tokyo, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Nice, Barcelona and London.
Scott has more than 15 years of international management and sales experience – he has developed, managed and trained employees from more than 50 nationalities.
During the five years he lived in Japan, he passed the highest level on the Japanese proficiency exam (1 kyu).
Scott is a two time Ironman finisher, has run more than 20 marathons, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, and successfully completed Marathon des Sables – a 7 day race across the Sahara desert in Morocco, considered to be the most difficult foot race in the world.
He is an avid collector of Cuban cigars and boasts one of the largest personal collections in the world.
An expatriate for 16 years, Scott speaks French and Japanese and has traveled to 88 countries. He currently lives with his family in Dubai.
