Cymax CEO Rizwan Somji leaves it all on the table
The Burnaby-based executive leads the furniture e-tailer into the future with lessons from his past.
In the fall of 1991, 14-year-old Rizwan Somji and his family found themselves swept up in the chaos and corruption that was the hallmark of General Mobutu Sese Seko’s authoritarian reign of terror in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo).
Born in England to a British mother and a Tanzania…