Our Team
Penn River experts have helped drive advances in Life & Annuities business and technology for decades. Founding team members have designed and built multiple leading L&A PAS solutions and have incorporated their knowledge, experience and lessons learned into the Penn River platform.
David Shaw
CEO, Co-Founder
David Shaw has 30+ years of experience in the insurance and financial services industries, including leading IT for multiple large organizations as Chief Information Officer and running P&L for significant business units within consulting organizations. David has been an early adopter of leading-edge technologies, including modern policy administration systems.
Paul Soscia
COO, Co-Founder
Paul brings more than 20 years of experience in financial services with expertise in leading both technology and business initiatives. Paul has held executive, project management and lead architect positions throughout his career. His experience, coupled with his product and business expertise, has provided Paul with the foresight to develop a modern policy administration system for Life & Annuities.
Ben Dashkiwsky
SVP-Solutions Development, Co-Founder
Ben has more than 15 years of experience working on policy administration systems for life insurance and annuities. With prior positions as an architect and business lead, Ben specializes in implementing and supporting PAS throughout the software development lifecycle.
Jeremy Morse
Chief Technology Officer, Penn River
Jeremy Morse is an accomplished technology leader with more than 25 years of experience spanning the full breadth of IT — from enterprise administration systems and customer-facing web platforms to API development and Service Oriented Architecture. Throughout his career, Jeremy has driven large-scale workflow implementations and architected SOA platforms that enable seamless internal and external data integration and sharing. As Chief Technology Officer at Penn River, he is focused on delivering forward-thinking technology solutions that strengthen existing client relationships and cultivate new ones. Jeremy is a firm believer in the power of people working together — guided by the philosophy that "if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together" — and brings a deep commitment to mentorship and collaborative leadership to everything he does.
Michele Messerly
Senior Business Analyst
Michele Messerly brings more than 35 years of experience in the life and health insurance software industry, with expertise spanning product management, business analysis, product ownership, new product implementations, data conversions, quality assurance, customer support, training, and technical documentation. Throughout her career, she has partnered with insurance carriers to successfully implement policy administration systems, launch new insurance products, and deliver solutions that align business needs with technology. At Penn River, Michele leverages her extensive industry knowledge and cross-functional experience to help clients achieve successful implementations and long-term business success.
Tom Flinn
Program Management Office Lead
Tom has over 25 years of corporate and consulting experience in the life and Annuity insurance industry, with a focus on implementing policy administration systems, new business technology, IT transformation, complex program management, and IT strategy development, blueprints, and roadmaps. His prior experience includes the role of Senior Director for Global Client Services and Solution Delivery at Oracle, where he had responsibility for enterprise transformation, complex program implementation, and strategic planning.