The Extraordinary Think And Do (TANDO) Tank
Tim Raines
tandofellow@tando.org
Expertise
brand management
business incubation
entrepeneurship
entrepreneurship education
higher education
innovation ​and entrepreneurship
international education
marketing
regional development
technology commercialization
Bio

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 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. Tim’s SBIR experience includes serving as Principal Investigator on a DOE Phase I. Tim currently serves as Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Ringling College of Art & Design.

All Fellows
John Mecklin
Patricia Bader-Johnston
Yuya Kajikawa
Meg Wilson
Julian Gresser
Kaisa Still
Liz Brailsford
Shunsuke Managi
Manhar Singh
Sharif Uddin Ahmed Rana
Mohan Nair
Steven T. Walsh
Nathan “Nth” Bar-Fields
Sahil Gupta
T.W. Kang
David Wimberly
Russell Kalmacoff
Ruzanna Tarverdyan
Finn Kydland
Manuel Heitor
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