Raising strategic capital and M&A with Ram Jambunathan, GM and SVP of SAP.io (SAPs strategic investment and incubation arm)

Ram Jambunathan Ram is SVP and Managing Director of SAP.iO, SAP’s business unit that invests in and incubates startup innovation to strategically expand SAP’s ecosystem around SAP data sets, technologies, and APIs. Ram is responsible for both the SAP.iO Foundries, a global network of top-tier startup programs that provide access to SAP APIs, technologies, and customers, as well as the SAP.iO Fund, which makes direct investments into early stage startups in areas strategic to SAP. Previous to SAP.iO, Ram was a VP in SAP Corporate Strategy, leading Cloud and Platform Strategy. Before joining SAP, Ram was a consultant at McKinsey & Co. focused on helping companies in the tech & telco spaces with growth strategies. Prior to McKinsey, Ram co-founded T-Networks (now part of Broadcom), a VC-backed fiber-optics company whose lead investors included Sequoia, Greylock, and US Venture Partners, and before that, was a Member of Technical Research & Development at Lucent Technologies - Bell Laboratories. Ram holds more than 5 patents and more than 10 peer-reviewed publications.