Mahadevan Ramesh holds a five-year integrated MSc degree in Physics from IIT Kanpur and a PhD in Physics from The Ohio State University, USA. After completing postdoctoral research in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University, he worked at Storage Technology Corporation (now part of Sun Microsystems/Oracle) and Maxtor Corporation (now part of Seagate Technologies) in Colorado, USA.

With extensive experience in leadership roles within global product teams, he gained first hand insights into the importance of soft skills while working on factory floors in Singapore, collaborating with diverse cultural groups. Currently, he serves as an adjunct professor at SSN School of Management and Computer Applications and provides consultancy services in management and engineering, with a focus on production and operations management.