Sgt. Christopher Lassiter, B.B.A., M.B.A., D.B.A.(c) was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Raised in the projects on the southside of Bessemer, Alabama Christopher started his athletic career as a 3-time consecutive little league baseball MVP before transitioning to a 3-sport high school athlete. Christopher rose to become a regional gold medalist and State track finalist. He received a scholarship offer to play college football that he turned down to serve in the United States Army Reserve.  After enlisting and leaving to Fort Benning, GA for Basic Training. Less than two weeks after his high school graduation, Christopher spent his 18th birthday in a gas chamber with screaming Drill Sergeants.  His first day of Advanced Individual Training was 9/11/2001.  Within his first week of undergraduate studies at Miles College, Christopher was deployed to Iraq by the age of 19.  He returned home more than a year later as an E-5 Sergeant Combat Veteran of the Iraqi Enduring Freedom War campaign by the early age of 20.

Upon return and reenrolling to Miles College, Christopher studied Business Administration and walked on to play college football.  Studying business has proved to be a GOD sent for Christopher.  After one year of playing football, he decided to focus on his education and became an Honor student and shortly after, made the Dean’s list prior to joining Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. 

In 2011, Christopher Co-founded and used his business education to start and run a grass-roots non-profit organization called New Avenue, Inc. Over three years serving as the Executive Director, Christopher help steer the lives multiple rural community students living on the out skirts of Birmingham, AL, with tours to college and even to Harvard University!  One success story was his ability to jumpstart the career of one his former students who’s early art work can be seen in this project (The two kids standing in the alley).  During these volunteer years, He supervised the BP oil spill clean-up that devastated his home state and its neighboring states.

Over the next 10 years, raising his 3 beautiful children, Christopher gathered work experience as Commercial Construction Project Manager, getting certified to sell life insurance and annuities, becoming a Certified Business and Marketing Teacher for grades 6-12, coaching Middle School Football, Basketball, and Track coach, being the first to teach a nationally recognized Entrepreneurship course at his perspective school.  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Christopher also taught the very first Securities and Investments course on the same campus after a request to the Principal and then later pursued by the school district to serve as the Business, Marketing and Finance Advisory Chair after only his first year of service.  He even found time to achieve an undergraduate dream of work for one of the top five brokerage firms in the country. 

Between 2007 to 2016, Christopher also managed to Coach both of his son’s little league football, basketball and track teams, start and complete his Finance MBA from The Forbes school of Business, and complete his Doctoral course work for Business Administration w/Entrepreneurship as he is currently writing his Doctoral Research Study.

Christopher has traveled to Spain, Italy, France, Barbados, Belize, Peru, and Canada, studying culture, business and religion on a quest to bring world peace. 

Christopher suffers from PTSD. At the time of this current project and prior accomplishments, he is only 34 years old.