Formal education includes a Master of Science (M.Sc. Industrial Chemistry) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA).

      During the early part of his professional career, Ramakrishna was involved in marketing bulk Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) taking advantage of the incentives from a liberalized export policy of the Government of India.

      Responsible for evolving and implementing Avra's quality policies and systems based on cGMP guidelines and for establishing one of the best state-of-the-art dedicated pilot plant and Class-100,000 fully contained Steroid plant in the country.

      Besides leading the process development team at Avra, his scientific interests include the design and development of non infringing patentable routes for the synthesis of various APIs in a cost effective manner with minimal impact to the environment.

      Non-scientific interests include sourcing rare items for use in chemical synthesis from global manufacturers and evaluating vendors supplying products to Avra.