Wally Raisanen is a highly successful entrepreneur, innovator and developer of laboratory instruments. He holds several recent patents in sensor design and analytical instrumentation.

During his long career as an innovator and entrepreneur, he founded Motorola Process Control, Inc. (a joint venture with Motorola), Arizona Instrument Corporation, and Reliable Instruments. He developed an advanced process control system and he invented and patented an advanced instrument for moisture analysis. This product won an R&D 100 award in 1979. Mr. Raisanen invented several new mercury vapor, hydrogen sulfide and hydrocarbon vapor detection instruments and developed and patented a unique moisture analysis method that won a second R&D 100 award in 1998. He also invented and patented a microcircuit version of the Jerome thin gold film gas sensor.

Mr. Raisanen has received many honors for his community service to entrepreneurs. In 1985 he was awarded the Promethean award for building awareness of the need for services to small high-tech businesses in the Phoenix area. In 1986 he was made a fellow of the University of Arizona Karl Eller School of Entrepreneurship. He also served as President of the Phoenix Chapter of the IEEE and President of the Phoenix Enterprise Network and as the Vice Chairman of the Pittsburgh section of the Life Member Chapter of the IEEE, an international professional society of electrical engineers.

Raisanen has earned an MBA (Marketing) from Arizona State University, a MSEE (Computer Science) from the University of Minnesota, and a BSEE from Michigan Tech. He is currently an adjunct physics professor in the Math/Science department of Roane State Community College, Harriman TN.