Souderton, PA — February 17, 2010 —AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation has announced the appointment of Timothy J. Rainear to the post of Regional Manager, North America.

Tim Rainear comes to AR with over 20 years of experience in the sales & marketing of technology solutions. Most recently Tim was consulting as the VP of Business Development at an early stage start-up company based in Cambridge, MA. His extensive technical background enabled him to investigate and penetrate several key commercial markets for this DARPA-backed, analog signal processing company. He successfully engaged with key decision-makers in such diverse industries as medical ultrasound, base Sstation power amplifier linearization and CMOS and CCD image sensors. He also positioned the company for a significant licensing agreement with a major military prime contractor.

Prior to his work at this stealth-mode start-up, Tim was Director of Sales for Northeastern US and Canada for Mathstar Inc, a high performance reprogrammable logic company. His tenacious pursuit of video and imaging applications as well as the mil/aero market space resulted in design wins at NASA, DRS and Northrop. He also, identified and won a major production program at a private cable equipment manufacturer resulting in a new revenue stream of nearly $1M/year for Mathstar and a brand new line of products for the customer.

Before joining Mathstar, Tim held Director level sales roles for TriQuint Semiconductor (RF and optoelectronics components) and LightSpeed Semiconductor (structured ASIC start-up). In both positions, Tim hired, trained and managed numerous manufacturer rep firms while maintaining an impressive funnel of opportunities throughout his broad sales territory.