Sri. B. Raghuramaiah was a highly professional industrialist who founded ad established a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for food and beverage flavours in Chennai. This premier food flavours company known as “Food Ingredient Specialities Pvt. Ltd., Chennai came into existence in 1990.

Sri. Raghuramaiah was highly recognized for his outstanding contributions to the food processing industry. He was awarded the highly coveted Dr. V. Subrahmanyan Industrial Achievement Award of the Association of Food Scientists and Technologists, India. He was also the recipient of several awards and recognitions that include the prestigious K.U. Patel Award of the All-India Food Processors Association, Fellow of the British Society of Flavourists, Fellow of AFSTI and Prof M S Swaminathan Outstanding CFTRI Alumnus Award. Sri. Raghuramaiah was a Professional Member of the Institute of Food Technologists, USA.

Sri Raghuramaiah greatly contributed towards the advancement of professional organizations like the Association of Food Scientists and Technologists India by way generous financial support from time to time.

Recognizing the contributions of Sri. Raghuramaiah to the progressive growth of Indian food industry and one of the well-wishers and strengths of the Association of Food Scientists and Technologists, India, it is very befitting on the part of AFST(I) to remember this distinguished personality in organizing annually, the “Sri B. Raghuramaiah Memorial Lecture”.