Chance Rainwater, PhD
Chance Rainwater is the senior commercialization manager of technology commercialization in the Office of Technology Commercialization. He joined the office in 2015. Previously, he served as a licensing associate in Rice University’s Office of Technology Transfer, where he managed the patenting and licensing of materials and chemical technologies.
He is a member of the Association of University Technology Managers and the Licensing Executives Society. Chance earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Loyola University New Orleans and a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin.