Raghu is the second of the three co-founders of the original Benchmark group of companies. Till he retired a few years back, he played an intrinsic role (and continues to contribute) in a variety of areas of Benchmark Broadcast operations including image processing/machine vision, broadcast systems design and integration, fiber optics/wireless communication, PCB and FPGA CAD. He has a B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT-Madras, and an MS (Computer Science) from University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to founding Benchmark Broadcast, he worked in IC CAD, manufacturing of Apple 2 compatible computers and Mac Software development.