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Ravi Raju graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina with a liberal arts degree.
He switched gears in graduate school at Mississippi State, where he completed 83 hours of coursework in computer science, earning a grade point average of 4.0.
Raju embarked on a 10-year career that focused on computer engineering, specifically the design and building of large-scale databases, and management and information technology consulting. He became accustomed to implementing systems and making technology decision that would advance a business.

