Vivek Ramaswamy is an American entrepreneur, author, and presidential candidate. He was born on August 9, 1985, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Indian Hindu immigrant parents. His family are Tamil-speaking Brahmins from Kerala. Ramaswamy graduated from Harvard College in 2007 with a major in biology and later entered Yale Law School. He is the founder and CEO of Roivant Sciences, a pharmaceutical company, which he founded in 2014. Ramaswamy is also the author of the New York Times bestselling book "Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate Americas Social Justice Scam".