In 1991, he set up "Raman Boards", a company involved in electrical materials, which was later bought by the ABB Group in 2007.
[3] In 2010, he was elected Chairman of the CII Karnataka State Council for a period of one year.
[4] In 2012, Pan Macmillan India published Raman's first book, The Shadow Throne, which became a national bestseller.
[3] The story revolved about a secret society that threatened to launch nuclear weapons on Indian cities and the subsequent attempts to stop them.
It was considered among the best Indian fiction releases of the year by The Telegraph[5] and a racy political thriller by The Hindu.