In his role as Managing Director and CEO, Ram N Agarwal pioneered to create India's first employee owned company. Born in October 1946 in Jhansi, Ram Agarwal is one of the first generation literates from Jhansi. In the year 1970, he completed BTech from IIT Kanpur specializing in Civil Engineering & in 1972 he completed PGDM from IIM, Kolkata, specializing in Finance, Marketing and Systems.It was in the same year that he joined Administrative Staff College of India in Hyderabad as a Management Consultant, offering consultancy in systems and being a member of the founder team of the Computer Division, he was there for four years.

In 1976 Agarwal joined Glaxo as a Management Services Executive. Within one year, i.e. in 1977, he began his career in Wipro as Area Sales Manager for Maharashtra. Wipro in those days was called Western India Vegetable Products Ltd. Remarkably, within one year; he was promoted to handle the All India Sales for Wipro's Consumer Product Divisions. He was in charge of sales and exports in 1978-83, during this period he helped Wipro to establish their consumer product brand. In 1983 he was given responsibility in Corporate Finance and Business Planning department. During this tenure Agarwal helped Wipro shape its new dream of setting up their Information Technology Division. For this purpose, he arranged to secure loans for more than a crore of Rs., a princely sum then, as Wipro had not secured such large credit limits earlier.

In 1985 he was transferred to Wipro Information Technology Limited to become the Finance Controller and Business Planning Manager. During 1985-87 he arranged to sign many Technical Collaboration Agreements and helped shape the company to achieve a leadership position in India.

During 1987, he helped Wipro to sign a Technical Collaboration Agreement with Epson and a new printer brand was born in the country. He along with 3 colleagues became founder members of what was known then as Peripherals Systems Division. During 1989-93 he was in charge of International Operations for Wipro Information Technology's hardware and application software group. During this period the seed of Wipro's first overseas office was sown.

In 1993 he returned to Peripherals Systems Division to head its operations. He continued to head this Division until 1999. In 1999 he took a sabbatical to study at Harvard for their Advanced Management Program. He was also transferred to Wipro's corporate office and was responsible for their Mission Quality, Innovation and Brand Building. Peripherals Systems Division later was restructured into a new company called Wipro peripherals Ltd.

He has been a member of MAIT's Executive Council for the last 6 years and also headed MAIT for a brief period.