Bio


Hello! My name is Chris. I'm a passionate individual with a relentless positive attitude, blending an outsider's perspective with wide-ranging expertise.

My journey hasn't been about traditional career paths; it's about internal mastery and enjoying success without being consumed by it. Trained as an engineer, I also embrace my creative side in writing, music, fashion, and event planning. I'm constantly dreaming and pushing boundaries for personal and collective growth. For more on my achievements and experiences, feel free to keep reading…below

 

I always struggle to find the next thing to say about me. there must be something or someone more interesting than me, what I do, accomplishments or where I am from. Perhaps we can start with how I see myself. I’m human with a relentless positude attitude, an outsider and an expert generalist. This combination has led me to pursue what I call a “non-career” career. A journey of internal mastery. I love success just like the next guy. I simply don’t want to get enslaved by it. I am trained as an Engineer. When it comes to music, fashion and putting up events I am an artist. I also have a deep obsession with the systems of power and how they work. I call them [P.I.M.P.] Power, Influence, Money, and politics.

Now, I am going to stop here before I tell you all my darkest secrets. Very nice to meet you. I am a non-stop dreamer with the burning ambition to keep on thinking outside the box, continuously challenging my-self and the surrounding in order to improve both. If you want to read more about my accomplishments, degrees, awards and other things of this nature, click the next

WHO IS Chris Ategeka?

a) an engineer
b) an entrepreneur
c) an author
d) an Impact Investor
e) a philanthropist.
f) a human
g) ALL the above

The answer is g. All the above. Chris is the author of five books. Before that, he founded multiple companies in Silicon Valley—most notably, UCOT, Privail, and Health Access Corps. He serves on the board of YES Uganda, a non-profit that empowers orphaned and vulnerable youth to become self-reliant and successful members of the community. Chris is one of the many lucky recipients of the organization. Chris also serves on the board of Health Access Corps, a company that focuses on strengthening healthcare systems in Africa using local talent to combat the extreme shortage of healthcare services in underserved regions. He is a mentor at Techstars Incubator and Unreasonable Institute, whose aim is to give altruistic entrepreneurs skills and funding to affect large-scale change.

In addition, he serves on the evaluation panel that helps identify organizations with the greatest potential to receive 1 million dollars each from the 250 million initiative focused on elevating community-led, community-focused organizations working with people and in places experiencing the greatest need in the United States, a revolutionary trust-based giving initiative by Ms. MacKenzie Scott and the team at Yield Giving and Lever for Change. Chris has won many international honors for his work. He was named on Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30" list, as well as an Echoing Green Fellow, Ashoka Fellow, TED Fellow, and the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. Most recently, he was honored at his alma mater by Chancellor Carol Christ and the UC Berkeley Foundation Board of Trustees with a 2021 Mark Bingham Award for excellence in achievement by a young alumnus in the last ten years. Chris acquired his education from the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in mechanical engineering.