Ravi Kalyanaraman, PhD, is an Associate Director at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company in the Global Analytical Technology group with Global Manufacturing and Supply. He received his PhD from the University of Idaho in 1996 and did his post-doctoral work at the University of Puerto Rico. He has been with Bristol-Myers Squibb since 2002. His recent work with Bristol-Myers Squibb has been focused on developing new and novel techniques to detect pharmaceutical counterfeits, raw material identifi cation using vibrational spectroscopic techniques, such as Raman, mid-, and near-infrared. He also leads the analytical team that is involved in the analysis of products received from complaints and from corporate security groups.