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Mark Pieloch | |
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| Born | December 5, 1957 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Massachusetts College of Pharmacy University of Michigan |
| Occupation(s) | President and owner of PF Inc. |
Mark Pieloch is the President and owner of PF Inc., [1] formerly known as Pet Flavors.
Mark Pieloch attended Gardner High School in Gardner, Massachusetts. After high school, Pieloch earned a M.S. in Industrial Pharmacy from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and went on to earn a Master of Business Administration from the Ross School of Business of the University of Michigan. [2]
Pieloch has been a registered pharmacist in Massachusetts since 1979. [3] He founded a variety of businesses in the field of pet pharmaceuticals, beginning with Pharma Chemie in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1990.
Since then, he has operated and/or sold PSPC, Phycox, Peak Nutrition, PalaTech Laboratories, and FlavorTek. Pet Flavors (now known as PF Inc.) is his current venture.
In 2016, he created the American Muscle Car Museum in Melbourne, Florida, to house his automobile collection. Featuring more than 400 cars, it is mainly used for charitable fundraising events and is otherwise not open to the public.
Pieloch is named as an inventor or co-inventor on two patents. These are US patents 6780437, issued for coated potassium chloride granules and tablets, and 7025965, issued for a method of use and dosage composition of blue-green algae extract for inflammation in animals. [4]
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