Our Mission

Parsyl was founded in 2017 with the goal of building a world where everyone, everywhere can trust the quality of goods they rely on, from the foods they eat to the medicines they need. We’ve developed a fully integrated, connected insurance solution for essential supply chains that uses data and technology to better understand the quality of refrigerated cargo, reduces waste and costs, and provides better insurance coverage. We’re building the data-driven cargo insurer of the future and ending the days of ship and pray.

Our People

Parsyl’s team brings a unique combination of experience in cargo insurance and logistics, big data analytics and global health.

Ben Hubbard

Ben Hubbard

CEO and Co-Founder

Ben founded Parsyl to solve the quality challenges he encountered while moving billions of dollars of life saving products to every corner of the globe. Ben is a former senior Obama Administration official where he served as Chief of Staff at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and later as the director of USAID’s credit financing division, the Development Credit Authority. He has held leadership and program positions at leading global development organizations, including ONE and the Clinton Foundation.

Alex Haar

Alex Haar

Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder

As a technical product manager at Google, Alex honed his ability to combine a frictionless user experience with the smart use of data and insights to create high value products. As Head of Product at ZestFinance, Alex built innovative machine learning based credit underwriting infrastructure to support consumer underwriting, and at EMI Music he built first-of-their-kind analytics and decision support tools.

Mike Linton

Mike Linton

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Mike has spent more than 10 years building software and integrations that make global supply chains run smoothly, both at SPS Commerce where he led R&D in supporting a retail supply chain for over 60,000 B2B customers and at his own supply chain focused company that he founded and sold.

Souleymane Sawadogo

Souleymane Sawadogo

Vice President of Global Health

Souley has more than twenty years experience strengthening the capacity to establish, manage and monitor laboratory services and networks across Africa. Early in his career, Souley worked on polio, measles and yellow fever vaccine potency testing, and later worked on immunity to polio, measles and rubella at a population level. Most recently, Souley was a senior advisor at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Africa operations where he led the design of state-of-the-art laboratory services across the continent.

Victoria Zak

Victoria Zak

Director of Insurance Products

Victoria has spent over 20 years in software in both technical and customer-facing roles in industries ranging from eCommerce to Local Search to Small Team Collaboration. She has led established, enterprise-focused products and launched brand new applications with small teams. Most recently, she was the Head of Product for an analytics company focused on the US Health Insurance industry providing claim transparency and insights for plan cost-effectiveness.