Josh Ruxin

Josh Ruxin (born June 15, 1970) is an American businessman, academic, and writer. As a businessman, he is co-founder and Executive Chairman of GoodLife Pharmacy, an East Africa–based pharmaceuticals chain in Kenya and Uganda, founder of the Rwandan Health Builders non-profit, and owner of Heaven Restaurant & Boutique Hotel, also in Rwanda.

He was the Truman Scholar for Connecticut, 1990; a Fulbright scholar to Bolivia in 1992; and a Marshall Scholar in 1994. Formerly, Ruxin was on faculty as an assistant clinical professor of public health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.

He is the author of ''A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope, and a Restaurant in Rwanda'' which the ''New York Times'' describes as "an absorbing and affecting narrative, documenting both victories and setbacks." Provided by Wikipedia