Christo Hall (born in 1978, in Sydney, Australia) is an entrepreneur, ex-professional surfer, author and owner of a marketing agency.

Early years

Christo Hall was born in 1978 on the

Northern Beaches The Northern Beaches is a region within Northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, near the Pacific coast. This area extends south to the entrance of Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour), west to Middle Harbour and north to the ...

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. He spent his childhood

surfing Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suita ...

and followed his childhood dream to become a professional surfer and featured in '' Surfing World Magazine'' Best Surfers of all Time Edition 2009. At age 14 he got his first

surfboard A surfboard is a narrow plank used in surfing. Surfboards are relatively light, but are strong enough to support an individual standing on them while riding an ocean wave. They were invented in ancient Hawaii, where they were known as ''papa hee ...

sponsor

Simon Anderson Simon Anderson (born 7 July 1954) is an Australian competitive surfer, surfboard shaper, and writer. He is credited with the 1980 invention of a three-fin surfboard design, called the "thruster". Early life Anderson grew up in the Northern Beac ...

Career

In 1991 Hall got sponsored by

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and was one of their team riders for 15 years. Christo is a surfer for North Narrabeen Board Riders club and has surf for the team to win 4 Australian titles
Global Surf Tag News 05.02.2011North Narrabeen National Surfing Reserve
Book page 29 and featured i
The Surfing Year Book
In 2004 Christo retired from full-time international competition. Still had
49th place on the surfing World Qualifying Series
in 2008 and went into business producing beginner

surfboards A surfboard is a narrow plank used in surfing. Surfboards are relatively light, but are strong enough to support an individual standing on them while riding an ocean wave. They were invented in ancient Hawaii, where they were known as ''papa hee ...

- Softboards Australia. He bought and sold a few other businesses in the surfing industry and in 2009 started Basic Bananas. Christo has been featured across the Australian media landscape including The

Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in ...

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, SmartCompany, BRW, Channel 9 in relation to marketing. In 2012 Hall published his first book Bananas About Marketing. Besides running different businesses, Christo is also a keynote speaker on the topic of marketing and entrepreneurship.

Personal life

Hall lives in Narrabeen on Sydney's Northern Beaches Bride Magazine
July 2010, author unknown.

References

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