Harold Barnum Industry Award

The Harold Barnum Industry Award recognized an active IAFP Member for dedicated and exceptional service to IAFP, the public, and the food industry. Qualifications were to be a Non-Student Member in good standing at the time of nomination and during the IAFP Annual Meeting, be employed in (or retired from) a food industry-related (nongovernmental, non-academic) profession, and have a minimum 5 years of experience in a food industry-related profession. IAFP no longer offers this award. 

• 2026 Recipient(s): Bala Kottapalli

Past Awardees

• 2025 Angie Siemens
• 2024 Jeffrey Kornacki
• 2023 Jennifer McEntire
• 2022 Yvonne Chan Masters
• 2021 Melanie J. Neumann
• 2020 Andrew James Clarke
• 2019 Ken Davenport
• 2018 Pamela Wilger
• 2017 Michael Roberson
• 2016 Douglas Marshall
• 2015 Peter Taormina
• 2014 Zeb Blanton, Jr.
• 2013 Loralyn Ledenbach
• 2012 Gordon W. Hayburn
• 2011 Veny Gapud
• 2010 Frank Yiannas
• 2009 Allen R. Sayler
• 2008 Robert H. Deibel
• 2007 Jenny Scott
• 2006 Paul A. Hall
• 2005 Catherine Nnoka
• 2004 None Given
• 2003 Fred A. Weber
• 2002 None Given
• 2001 William H. Sperber
• 2000 Kenneth Anderson
• 1999 Russell S. Flowers
• 1998 None Given
• 1997 John G. Cerveny
• 1996 Dane T. Bernard
• 1995 Damien A. Gabis
• 1994 R. Bruce Tompkin
• 1993 David D. Fry
• 1992 Ronald Case
• 1991 Thomas C. Everson
• 1990 Roy Ginn
• 1989 Lowell Allen
• 1988 Kenneth Kirby
• 1987 J. H. Silliker
• 1986 Hugh C. Munns
• 1985 William L. Arledge
• 1984 Omer Majerus
• 1983 C. Dee Clingman
• 1982 Howard Ferreira