Ram Subramaniam is an entrepreneur who operates at the intersection of industry and academia and brings his field experience to classrooms around the world. He is a visiting faculty in several business and engineering schools and researches how External Enablers/External Factors differently influence IT and Non-IT entrepreneurs and studies IT-Entrepreneurship/IT-Entrepreneurs as a typology. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Madras University, India, a Master's degree in Management from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a Doctoral degree from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.