Rafal Pielak
Founder & CEO at Soteri Skin
Experience
Career
2022Soteri Skin
FounderFounder & CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2022 – Present
2013L'Oréal
Director, L'Oreal Technology Incubator - New Technology & Product Development · San Francisco Bay Area · 2013 – 2021
2011University of California at Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow - Chemistry and Biophysics · Berkeley, CA · 2011 – 2013
2011Agios Pharmaceuticals
Consultant - Rare Metabolic Disease · Greater Boston · 2011 – 2012
2006Harvard Medical School
Doctoral Researcher · Greater Boston · 2006 – 2011
2010Harvard Medical School
Head Teaching Fellow - Biochemistry and Biophysics · 2010
2011Harvard University
Teaching Assistant - Chemistry · 2011
Bio
My background is in product and business development. I received Ph.D. in Biomedical Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology from Harvard Medical School and went on to complete my postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley. Later I worked for biopharma identifying business opportunities in the rare disease space. Before launching Soteri Skin, I spent 7 years leading a product innovation team at L'Oreal where I helped to launch and grow L'Oreal Tech Incubator in San Francisco.