Sofia is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Axmed. From a very young age and through family experience, she decided she would build a career that could help patients live healthier lives, especially those in areas where access to therapies was most challenging.
During her Pharmacy School years, she undertook several research projects to work on developing new therapeutic assets, but she also spent most of her free time as a volunteer pharmacist in India, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Helping local clinical teams to deliver the care and medicines patients needed in the most underserved areas of these countries, she experienced firsthand the burden caused by a fragmented and unfair access to medicines system.
Sofia then spent 7 years in the pharmaceutical sector. She first joined GSK’s Future Leaders Program after which she transitioned into a diverse set of local and global commercial roles. From sales leadership to global and local marketing lead roles, she was able to see the important role the pharmaceutical industry plays in bringing therapies to market, as well as some of the market failure dynamics sustaining the inequalities still present when patients try to access live saving medicines around the world.
She decided to leave the industry to work on improving this issue. While earning her MBA degree at Harvard Business School she met her two co-founders and started Axmed.
Sofia earned her M. Pharm degree at Universidad CEU San Pablo, graduating as #1 of her class. She is currently finishing her Master’s in Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Sofia Radley-Searle
