C. Scott Ragsdale,

Chairman

Scott Ragsdale was born in 1971 and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska attended high school at The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with BA in Political Science in 1995.

At the University of California in 1994, Scott was elected President of the Berkeley College Republicans.  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, Monaco, Barcelona and London.

Scott has 15+ years of international management experience and  has developed, managed and trained employees from more than 50 nationalities.

He lived in Fukuoka, Osaka, and Tokyo, Japan for 5 years and 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.

In 2010, Scott swam across the English Channel.

In 2011, he completed naseba7, 7 Ironman triathlons in 7 consecutive days across the 7 Emirates of the UAE.

He is an avid collector of Cuban cigars and boasts one of the largest personal collections in the world.

Scott has lived outside of America since 1994; living for significant periods of time in 9 countries; has travelled to more than 100 countries and speaks French and Japanese.

He currently lives with his family in Dubai.