Author Event: Gold in Your Backyard by Ron Rubin

Join us for a special event with Ron Rubin, author of Gold in Your Backyard. This event is free, but we appreciate your RSVP below so we can plan for your attendance.

How to succeed in business and in life?

How to take the first seeds of an idea and grow them into an exciting and prosperous company? And how do you create a company culture that prizes innovation and inspires your employees to become the very best they can be?

These are just some of the questions that author Ron Rubin answers for us in his brillant new book, Gold In Your Backyard.

And Ron is a true expert in entrepreneurship and business leadership. He took over The Republic of Tea in its infancy and built it into an industry leader and a pioneer in innovation, healthy living, and corporate social responsibility.

Then, in his 60s, Ron did it all over again, taking a small winery in Sonoma County and turning it into The River Road Family Vineyards and Winery, another bold pioneering venture -- and for Ron it was a life dream come beautifully true.

Gold in Your Backyard is not a typical business book. It is a book of rare wisdom and inspiration, shining a bright light on how to live your life to the full and how to help others do the same. Reviewers are already calling it a must-read for today's business leaders and entrepreneurs.

Ron Rubin has had a storied career as an entrepreneur.

He started out working in his father’s alcohol beverage distribution business, Central Wholesale Liquor Co. in Mount Vernon, Illinois. Life was good. In 1994, 22 years later, Ron purchased The Republic of Tea and promptly turned it into a model of innovation and a leader in the world of premium teas. But that was just the beginning.

Back in 1971, Ron spent a year studying viticulture and enology at U.C. Davis, and right there his life dream was born: to one day have his own vineyard and winery in California Wine Country. In 2011, he made that dream come true: he purchased a small winery in Sonoma County and built it into the River Road Family Vineyards and Winery, today a Certified B Corporation meeting the highest standards of performance, accountability, environmental protection, and social responsibility.

A firm believer in Giving Back, in 2006 Ron endowed and set in motion the creation of The Ron Rubin School for the Entrepreneur, at Culver Academies in Culver, Indiana. In 2022, Ron received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Sonoma State University. After suffering a serious heart episode, he launched “Trained For Saving Lives,” a groundbreaking program aimed at equipping Sonoma County’s 450 wineries with CPR-trained staff capable of handling sudden cardiac arrest and equipped with life-saving AEDs, Automated External Defibrillators.Lives,” a ground-breaking program aimed at equipping Sonoma County’s 450 wineries with CPR-trained staff capable of handling sudden cardiac arrest and equipped with life- saving AEDs, Automated External Defibrillators.

Ron and his wife Pam have two grown children and live in St. Louis, Missouri.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Napa Bookmine, 1625 2nd St, Napa, United States