Paul Ratnaraj provides Information Technology Innovation and Oversight to TMV. Paul Ratnaraj is also the CEO of Sprine Corporation, co-founder of Patient Passport and Director of Advanced Initiatives at Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), a comprehensive business data research service from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Paul conceived and developed WRDS in 1993 and as the principal inventor was awarded a U.S. patent. WRDS also won the prestigious CIO Magazine’s 2003 Enterprise Value Award. Paul has won numerous innovation awards while working overseas for Sheraton Hotels, a subsidiary of ITT Corporation. He led the development of SPIKE, a student communications and knowledge environment at the Wharton School. At Wharton, he also led the development of OTIS, a system to simulate financial securities trading. Paul was instrumental in being the first to implement ‘lights out’ and remote computing operations in the non-profit world. As CIO at The Pew Charitable Trusts he developed Pew EZLink which enabled employees and grantees to manage grant making activities including work flow using the web. Paul attended Bangalore University in India, where he received his Bachelor’s degree in business administration. He holds a MBA from Idaho State University.