R. Ramaraj

R. Ramaraj is an icon in his field. He was recognized as the ‘Evangelist of the Year’ at the India Internet World Convention in September 2000 and voted IT Person of the Year in a CNET.com poll in India that same year. Mr. Ramaraj was invited by the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to be a member of UN’s Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) and was the Co-Founder and CEO of Sify Limited, the pioneer and leader company in Internet, networking and e-commerce services in India. Mr. Ramaraj is the Senior Advisor at Sequoia Capital, a member of the Global Board of Trustees of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and the first Indian to be invited to serve on the Board of Directors of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). He holds a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the University of Madras as well as an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.