Marram has developed a reputation for outstanding academic and technical accomplishments. An adjunct professor at Babson for 20 years, he regularly lectures on entrepreneurship and issues facing high-growth businesses in both graduate level and executive education programs. Marram was an entrepreneur in the high-technology sector for more than 35 years; he was the founder, president and CEO of GEO-CENTERS, INC., a high technology, professional services firm which he sold in 2005. GEO-CENTERS, INC. was recognized twice by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing, privately-held companies in the United States.

In 1999 and 2000, Marram was appointed to the Summer National Defense Science Board. He currently serves on the College Advisory Council, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the Chemistry Advisory Group at Tufts University. He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, the Board of Overseers for Children’s Hospital Boston, and previously served on the Health and Educational Financial Authority (HEFA) of Massachusetts. He also serves on the boards of several privately held companies.

Marram earned a Ph.D. from Tufts University and M.S. and B.S. degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was named a Price-Babson College Fellow and received the Edwin M. Appel Prize for Bringing Entrepreneurial Vitality to Academia.