in november 2003, siebel systems purchased upshot for $70 million. raffel then worked for siebel until 2006, when it was purchased by oracle corporation. he remained with oracle until 2008. at siebel, raffel served as group vice president of the company's ondemand operation, where he oversaw a series of software upgrades and added features to provide social networking and market segmentation tools to his firm's customers. in june 2011 raffel joined complete genomics as senior vice president and chief commercial officer. the life sciences company, based in the mountain view, california, began operations in 2006, and provides sequencing and analysis of human genomic data. he left the company in june 2013 three months after it was purchased by the chinese company, bgi-shenzhen. since september 2017, he has been at harvard university where he serves as writer-in-residence in mather house, a fellow at the office of career services, and a lecturer at the paulson school of engineering and applied sciences. he will be co-teaching eng-sci-28, “technology, ethics, and society” in the spring semester of the 2018-2019 academic year.