Ivory Group Current role
Ajit Ramesan
Business Manager
- Commercial
- Sales & marketing
- Technology
- Operations
four hats. one person.
An explainer in five parts, about one very curious person
Why can't Ajit Ramesan leave new technology alone?
Ajit Ramesan
Dubai, UAE
- ENFP
- Self-taught designer & coder
- 20X sprint mode
- Speaks 6 languages
- Always upskilling
- warning: loves to talk
The short answer: he grew up in a city that reinvents itself, built his career across the healthcare and technology industries, and taught himself to design, code and build products along the way. The long answer takes five parts. Scroll to start.
- 6languages, and counting
- 4hats at Ivory Group
- 3companies, healthcare to tech
- 20Xoutput in sprint mode
1Part one
The place
Ajit was born and raised in Dubai, a city that treats “new” as the normal state of things.
He was born at Al Wasl Hospital (it's Latifa Hospital now), and growing up, he watched the skyline change every few years. Islands appeared off the coast. The tallest building in the world went up down the road. When the place you live keeps rebuilding itself, trying the new thing stops feeling risky and starts feeling like common sense.
He also grew up surrounded by languages, and he kept collecting them. Six so far, and the Arabic and Tamil are still works in progress.
Six languages, and counting:
- നമസ്കാരംMalayalam
- नमस्तेHindi
- آدابUrdu
- HelloEnglish
- هلا واللهArabic still learning
- வணக்கம்Tamil the basics
2Part two
The path
He started in marketing for medical technology. Now he runs the whole business side.
His career has run through the healthcare and technology industries, and each role added a layer. Telling the story of a product, then taking it to market across the GCC, then running everything around it: the deals, the team, the tech and the operations.
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Where it started
Bridgeway Medical Systems
Marketing communications
Part of Bridgeway Group, a transnational corporation.
- MBA picked up along the way. explains the spreadsheets.
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Next
Leader Healthcare
Marketing, GCC region
A multinational medical and healthcare technology solutions provider.
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Now
Ivory Group
Business Manager
An IT consumables manufacturer, where he leads the commercial side. Plus Partner at AJRam & Co.
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IT
DIPLOMA cyber security, learned on the job at Ivory. someone had to lock the doors.
from telling the story to running the business.
PartnershipDubai, UAE
AJRam & Co.
Ajit Ramesan is a Partner in the firm, sharing in its direction, its clients and its results.
Reason on file: entrepreneurial spirit.
PARTNERhealthcare taught him the fine print. he still reads it.
Documents recreated for illustration. Source: Ajit Ramesan.
3Part three
The method
He loves a challenge, and he always looks for the most effective way to deliver. So every idea has to pass three checks before it gets his time.
He picked them up across healthcare, technology and the commercial side of the business. An idea needs three yeses. Most don't get there, and the ones that do are worth doing properly.
1Learned in healthcare
Does the evidence hold up?
In regulated products, a claim without proof goes nowhere. He asks for the proof first.
2Learned on the commercial side
Will customers buy it?
It has to make sense to the customer, the sales team and the people who deliver it.
3Learned running the business
Do the numbers work?
Cost, time and return. If the business case doesn't add up, it waits.
Three yeses?
Then it ships.
And he'll find the most effective way to deliver it.
three yeses, or it doesn't ship.
4Part four
The builder
Marketing is where he started. Design, code and product he taught himself.
His career began in marketing communications, so he knows how to tell a product's story. Waiting for someone else to build the product was too slow, so he learned to do that too, one project at a time. He still does: new technologies, new products, new skills, picked up while they're still new.
Marketer
Brand, communications and campaigns. Where his career started, from Bridgeway to the GCC.
Since day oneDesigner
Layout, interfaces and visuals. Including the first draft of most of his own work.
Self-taughtCoder
Enough code to build the thing, automate the boring part and talk to engineers in their own terms.
Self-taughtProduct builder
From an idea on a napkin to something people can actually use.
Self-taughtOutput over a typical month
20X
sprint mode. when something clicks, his brain goes into overdrive.
5Part five
The person
Four letters explain a lot: ENFP.
Energised by people, driven by ideas, and happiest with a few options still open. It also explains the entrepreneurial streak.
EExtraverted
loves to talk. pick a topic he loves and clear your afternoon.
NIntuitive
sees the big picture first, then fills it in.
FFeeling
people first. always.
PPerceiving
keeps options open, until sprint mode kicks in.
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learning this month
- Put an AI agent on a real workflow
- Ship a small product over a weekend doing
- Automate one boring report
- Get better at Arabic
- Become a better husband assigned by wife
she loves him a lot. she also has notes.
Quick question about that new AI tool?
Happy to! So there are three things you need to know.
Actually, let me start from the beginning…
it was not a quick question.
From the notebook
Field notes
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Three questions before I give a new idea my time
I get excited about new things very easily. Over the years I've built a simple filter so that excitement doesn't run the business.
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Sprint mode, and how I try to land it
When an idea clicks, I go into a mode where I get an unreasonable amount done. It's great until it isn't. Here's how I try to make it useful.
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What marketing in healthcare taught me about selling anything
My first years were in marketing for medical technology. The rules there were strict, and most of them turned out to be good advice for every industry since.
So, back to the question.
Why can't Ajit Ramesan leave new technology alone? …stop asking “what if?”
Bring him a challenge. An idea, a partnership, or a tool he should try.
hello@ajitramesan.com
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