Following 20 years undertaking IT service management and business change management roles in the retail, hospitality and banking sectors, Rama has been a management consultant in the education sector since 2005. He currently supports various multi academy trusts in their growth strategies, but also offers his time in governance roles across the mainstream, special and independent school sectors as: Chair of Trustees of a special and mainstream primary school trust of 13 schools; a trustee and former chair of a primary school trust of 20 primary schools; a trustee on the family board of a special school trust of 14 schools and nine college centres; and more. Rama also sits on the DfE’s London Region Advisory Board and was awarded an MBE for services to education in the 2023 New Years Honours list.