Ram is a private investor through several private and public vehicles. Previously, Ram was a Partner at Goldman Sachs where over a 20-year career he started and built various proprietary investing businesses. These businesses included Global Structured Finance Investing & Lending, a private side lending, investing and funding platform focused on secured financing across asset classes as well as a solutions-driven Principal Investing business and its predecessor business Principal Funding & Investing. Ram also served as Head of Global Currencies & Emerging Markets, Co-Chair of the Global Markets Investment Committee, and a member of the Firmwide Investment Policy Committee. Ram joined Goldman Sachs in 2001 as a Vice President, was named Managing Director in 2005 and Partner in 2008. Previously, Ram worked at Morgan Stanley and at Merrill Lynch. Ram is a Board Member of the Child Mind Institute in New York City and a member of the Dean’s Council at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Ram received a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and an M.B.A. from the University of Rochester.