Holding partnership New Hampshire, USA · Multan, Pakistan Est. 2023 · Formalised 2025

SHAHZAD AND RAINER

Leadership

Two partners.
Two disciplines.

One partnership, two very different careers, and a division of labour that has not needed renegotiating since 2023.

Robert K. RainerMuhammad Tariq Shahzad

Leadership at a glance

Partners
TwoNo other officers or directors are named by the partnership.
Combined leadership
More than 40 years
Locations
New Hampshire and MultanThirteen time zones apart.
Working since
2023Formalised as a partnership in 2025.

Recognition held by Robert K. Rainer

  • Presidential Lifetime Volunteer Service Award, 2024
  • ACBSP Teaching Excellence Award, 2020, one of twenty professors recognised worldwide
  • Professor Emeritus, International University of Leadership, Morocco
  • One of the twenty five most influential lawyers in Massachusetts, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, 1999
  • Marquis Who's Who in America
  • Patent holder, intuitive search syndication and social interaction systems
  • B.A. Brandeis University. J.D. Suffolk University Law School

The partners

Who they are, and what each of them carries.

Robert K. Rainer

Founder, philanthropist, attorney, innovator, professor emeritus

For more than four decades Robert K. Rainer has worked at the point where law, technology and philanthropy meet. A Brandeis and Suffolk Law graduate, he was named one of the twenty five most influential lawyers in Massachusetts by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in 1999, then redirected his career towards nonprofits, healthcare technology and community work.

  • New Hampshire, USA
  • More than 15,000 volunteer hours
  • Presidential Lifetime Volunteer Service Award, 2024
  • Professor Emeritus, International University of Leadership, Morocco

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Muhammad Tariq Shahzad

Chief operating officer, sales strategist, operations architect

Muhammad Tariq Shahzad is the execution half of the partnership. As chief operating officer of Rainer Agency and Hashtag Dialing Codes, and a strategist with fifteen years across industries, he turns intent into something that runs without anyone watching it.

  • Multan, Pakistan
  • Fifteen years across operations, finance and strategy
  • CRM, B2B development, digital marketing, data analysis
  • English, Urdu, Punjabi and Saraiki

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Division of responsibility

Who answers for what.

The split has been stable since 2023. It is written down here so that anyone writing in knows who will read it.

Law and legal review
Robert K. Rainer. He is a Suffolk Law graduate, so the review path for the group's legal centre is internal.
Philanthropy and the initiatives
Robert K. Rainer. The nonprofit relationships and the volunteer programme sit with him.
Operations and systems
Muhammad Tariq Shahzad. Customer records, the licensing register, and the reporting the partnership runs on.
Sales and business development
Muhammad Tariq Shahzad. B2B development across the ventures, and the reseller relationships.
Marketing delivery
Rainer Agency, Ltd, under the chief operating officer.
Anything that crosses both
Write to hello@shahzadandrainer.com and it will be routed once.

Work with the partnership.

The door is open to nonprofits, to businesses, and to anyone who thinks good collaboration has no borders.

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