{"id":3597,"date":"2018-05-14T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2018-05-15T08:33:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T13:33:28","slug":"spotlight-on-jonathan-rugamba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2018\/05\/14\/spotlight-on-jonathan-rugamba\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Jonathan Rugamba"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet Jonathan Rugamba, one of our newest COBA alumni. Jonathan graduated on Saturday, May 12th,\u00a0<\/span>with a double major in accounting and finance. After graduation, he will be returning to his hometown of Kigali, Rwanda. His goal is to build up an equity firm within the next 10 years through which he can channel as many job opportunities as possible for the people of Rwanda.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jonathan Rugamba<\/p><\/div>\n

Rugamba will be creating the start-up with a team of 5 of his \u201cfellows\u201d back home. Three of the team members build software and the other teammates will work to find clients to purchase the software. He said the start-up is still struggling to get off the ground but they hope for the best in the future. When asked how being a Christian will mold his work with co-workers and clients, \u00a0Jonathan said that \u201cI think most of my Christian values of love and unity will be vital in forming a strong team bond.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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When asked how the<\/span> education and experiences at ACU and in COBA have helped him\u00a0<\/span>\u200bprepare for \u200blife \u200bafter graduation, Jonathan stated, \u201cFuture is always the future, we can only guess at what it truly holds. We may feel prepared but we can\u2019t certainly be sure. However, I have really gained a lot of knowledge, and that is the best preparation in my opinion. Knowledge never expires but grows.\u201d One of Rugamba\u2019s favorite experiences while in COBA was his time in STAR (the Student Trading and Research class) because it most mimicked the reality of the business world.<\/p>\n

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Rugamba\u2019s advice to current students who want to follow this same type of work is to find your strength and remember that this is a never-ending journey. He advises incoming freshmen to \u201cHave an end-in-mind, work towards it, love people and try to find the best in them. However, you are the best judge for yourself so the challenge lies in your hands. And above all strive to make sure that one day you will live your dream.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Meet Jonathan Rugamba, one of our newest COBA alumni. Jonathan graduated on Saturday, May 12th,\u00a0with a double major in accounting and finance. After graduation, he will be returning to his hometown of Kigali, Rwanda. His goal is to build up an equity firm within the next 10 years through which he can channel as many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,386,2801,2750,6627,154287,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni-spotlight","category-coba-events","category-current-students","category-faith-infusion","category-student-spotlights-current-students","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}