Until April 2025, Carol Rabke was a Technology to Market (T2M) advisor within the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of SBIR/STTR Programs. In that role, she focused on helping SBIR/STTR applicants and awardees build the necessary relationships with industry partners and the venture capital community to move the DOE funded technologies forward to commercialization. To that end, she took her vision for a partnering platform and working with Phase III awardee, OmniSync, turned it into a reality. Providing a free, public-facing, self-supporting platform (the SBIR Partnering Platform) where SBIR/STTR applicants/awardees and relevant stakeholders can network and engage. She also organized virtual networking sessions and commercialization workshops. Prior to joining DOE, Carol spent over twenty years working in the SBIR/STTR community as a commercialization service provider while employed by Dawnbreaker. During this time, she worked with hundreds of SBIR/STTR funded small businesses - the bulk of which were NSF-funded or DOE-funded. She served as the program manager of Dawnbreaker’s Phase I commercialization programs for both NSF and DOE and played a key role in developing the Virtual Strategic Partner Introduction (VSPI®) Series that facilitated virtual introductions between small businesses and perspective partners from industry and the investment communities. Carol has a Ph.D. in physical/analytical chemistry from the University of Utah where she built several scanning tunneling microscopes and an atomic force microscope for biological applications. She has authored several peer reviewed publications including articles in Science and Langmuir.