Before he had the inspiration for TiVo along with co-founder Jim Barton, he was Senior Vice President of the Silicon Desktop Group for Silicon Graphics Inc. There he was responsible for engineering, marketing and business development for all desktop products, with P/L responsibility for approximately half the company's revenue. Prior to joining this group, he was President of Silicon Studio, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Graphics focused on enabling applications development for merging interactive digital media markets.

Before joining Silicon Studio, Ramsay was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the company's Visual Systems Group. He also held positions of Director in the Advanced Systems Group.

Prior to joining Silicon Graphics, Ramsay held R&D; and engineering management positions at Hewlett-Packard and Convergent Technologies. He earned a first-class B.S.E.E. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.