Mr. Raines is an experienced commercialization executive with a primary focus on early stage technology marketing, sales, business development and SBIR/STTR grant development. Tim is a DOE Voucher Provider for commercialization and supported numerous DOE grants as well as a DOE SBIR PI awardee. Tim has also served as a DOE SBIR Principal Investigator and on DoD and NSF review panels. Tim has also worked with SBIR applicants and awardees for DOE, NASA, NIH, Army, Navy, Air Force, DARPA, USSOCOM, DHS, NOAA, and USDA. Tim has worked in Technology Transfer with universities internationally, from the US, Ukraine, Mexico, India, Hungary, Columbia, Korea, and more. He also serves private innovators and R&D labs in the US, securing SBIR/STTR grants and moving the technologies through the commercialization process. Technical focus areas include cleantech, quantum, electro-optics, directed energy, plasma materials, systems, and components, neuroscience devices, medical radiation, medical optics, smart and connected health, and many more. He is adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Ringling College of Art + Design. Tim is a Fellow with the Tando Institute, that focuses on creating regional innovation economic engines through commercialization, across the globe. Tim is also a mentor for Techstars Space, the Larta Venture Fellows program, consultant with the Colorado SBDC TechSource, and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Central Florida.