Vivek Ramaswamy

NRI Vivek Ramaswamy, Entrepreneur and politician

About Vivek Ramaswamy

• Ramaswamy was born in 1985 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised there.
• His parents immigrated from Vadakkencherry, Palakkad, Kerala, India. His father graduated from a regional engineering college in Kerala, and worked for General Electric as an engineer and patent attorney, while his mother graduated from Mysore Medical College and worked as a geriatric psychiatrist.
• Ramaswamy has argued that American-style capitalism provides an antidote to the caste system in India by offering lower-caste citizens more economic opportunities.
• Ramaswamy graduated from St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati in 2003.In high school, he was class valedictorian, a nationally ranked junior tennis player, and an accomplished pianist.
• In 2007, Ramaswamy graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with an A.B. in biology.
• He wrote his senior thesis on the ethical questions raised by creating human-animal chimeras. His thesis was awarded the Bowdoin Prize for Natural Sciences, and a precis was published in The New York Times and The Boston Globe in 2007.In 2013, Ramaswamy received a J.D. from Yale Law School
• In 2007, Ramaswamy and Travis May co-founded Campus Venture Network, a technology company that provided software and networking resources to university entrepreneurs. 
• The company was acquired in 2009 by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.Ramaswamy worked at QVT Financial from 2007 to 2014, where he was a partner and co-managed the firm's biotech portfolio, while simultaneously attending Yale Law School from 2010-2013.
• Ramaswamy met his wife Apoorva T. Ramaswamy, an Assistant Professor and clinician at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, when they lived near each other at Yale University when studying law and medicine respectively. Together, they have two sons.Ramaswamy self-identifies as a Hindu.