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.
Jerome Bridge
CTO, Co-Founder
Jerome brings more than 15 years of software development experience, with expertise in JAVA/J2EE and other technologies, to the development of the Penn River platform. Jerome’s technical expertise and work with open source and cloud computing ensures Penn River Policy Administration is based on advanced technologies and Penn River design principles.
Sherry Xu
Chief Software Engineer Officer, Co-Founder
Sherry is the primary developer and creator of the Penn River Policy Administration platform. With more than 15 years' experience in Life & Annuities administration systems, Sherry has pioneered and shaped the PAS of the future. Sherry has built a robust and dynamic design philosophy throughout her career, serving in critical roles for major policy administration software vendors.
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.
Bob Finger
CIO
Bob has over 30 years of experience developing insurance software solutions, including new business, underwriting and policy administration. As a lead architect and development leader, Bob has been instrumental in advancing the state of policy administration software, empowering carriers to implement innovative and diverse insurance products quickly on a single, flexible, and performant system. Bob's focus at Penn River is developing a rapid, repeatable implementation process for Penn River's Policy Administration System.