Our mission is to empower you.
By discovering your Skin Microbiome Type™, we can provide true personalization when it comes to skincare and, even, prescriptions.
Using cutting-edge whole genome sequencing, we can enable you to understand your skin on a microbial level, which correlates to skin health, age, and balance.
We know what it's like to try a bunch of products only to find out that they aren't right for us. We're here to change that paradigm. We believe you are unique, and, therefore, your skin health regimen should be, too. With Parallel, our mission is to empower you to achieve your highest skin goals and dare to be your best self.
KNOW OUR SCIENCEOur Team

Natalise Kalea Robinson
Co-Founder + CEO
Stanford MBA | Stanford BA
Serial Startup Leader

Nathan Brown
Co-Founder + Chief Science Officer
Oregon St. PhD Microbiology | Univ. Leicester, UK, Post-doc Microbiologist + Phage Expert

Dr. Jigar Patel
Chief Medical Officer
Eastern Virginia, BA, MD | Chief Resident, Duke Board-Certified Dermatologist & Mohs Surgeon

Dr. Shankar Mundluru
Head of Operations

Karl Nislow
Head of Finance

Dr. Rebekah Dedrick, PhD
Head of Phage Science

Aavi Bhakta
Phage Scientist

Catie Tanji
Marketing Associate

Mia Zakaria
Formulation Scientist
Our Advisors
Clinical

Dr. Vish Banthia
Board Certified Facial Plastic / Otolaryngology Surgeon
Stanford, UCSF, MD

Dr. Vip Soni
Board Certified Dermatologist / MOHS Surgeon
Stanford BS / UCLA MD

Dr. Malcolm Pyles
Dermatologist in Residence, Cleveland Clinic
Stanford MD, MBA

Dr. Gary Motykie
Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon, Beverly Hills
Northwestern MD, MBA
Scientific

Dr. Chris Callewaert
Microbiology, Bioengineering
Specialty: Skin, Armpit
Ghent University, MS, PhD

Dr. David Karig
Microbiology, Bioengineering
Specialty: Skin, Aging
Princeton, MA, PhD

Dr. Dominic Sauvageau
Chemical Engineering
Specialty: Phage, Materials Engineering
McGill University, MS, PhD

Feras Al-Zubaidy
Bioprocessing Engineering
Specialty: Production Scale Up
DeMontfort Univ., MS
Business

Anthony McKinney
CEO @ Ethismos Research
Specialty: Drug Development
Thunderbird, MBA

Stephanie Robertson
Former New Ventures @ J&J
Specialty: Partnerships
UC Berkeley, Chemistry + Biophysics PhD

Deena Bahri
CMO @ StockXFormer
CMO @ Birchbox
Harvard, MBA

Matt Tindall
CEO @ Flightpath Biosciences
Serial Entrepreneur
U of Texas Austin, MBA
Tech

Y. Wayne Huang
Engineering, Product
Speciality: Tech, Genomics
UC Davis, MS

Paul Alexander
Engineering, Big Data
Speciality: HIPAA, Bio-med
U of Chicago, MA