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<p style="text-align: right;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1e4f78ca-e367-c710-c8cb-557d1e1c1471"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File:Ben Parsell.jpg|thumb|Ben Parsell.jpg]]Ben Parsell is a sophomore at UIF Alumni from Grand Valley State University studying who studied Information Systems.</p><span id="docs-internal-guid-1e4f78ca-e367-c710-c8cb-557d1e1c1471"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now based out of Detroit, MI, Ben works at Instacart as a Sales Engineer supporting enterprise and local independent grocers with their digital commerce platforms, helping demo, scope, and partner with those retailers to build out a strong and tangible product experience for customers across North America.</span></span>
Prior to Instacart, Ben had spent two years with VTEX, an enterprise digital commerce platform, and 3-4 years with OST, a local digital consultancy in Grand Rapids, MI. UIF had helped set the foundation during his college tenure to ensure cirtical thinking, problem solving, and work ethic were a core pillar of how he carries his day-to-day work now.
<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e4f78ca-e367-c710-c8cb-557d1e1c1471"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">During college, Ben had gotten involved in a number of school-related projects, or clubs. One of those being the Collegiate Entrepreneur’s Organization (CEO) at GVSU, where Ben served as President for two years. He had also currently worked on a design thinking team to address the overall accessibility on campus for persons with disabilities.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e4f78ca-e367-c710-c8cb-557d1e1c1471"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With his tech backgroundOutside of everything else, Ben tends to come up with a variety of crazy startup ideasloves long-distance running, including one of his latestcooking, Inveigle. Inveigle hosts Flare.Rocket., an entrepreneurship coffee and startup web application that will help entrepreneurs go from an idea, to getting a company off hiking in the ground, all within a single application. He tends to stay very busy with design thinking projectsdeep wilderness, and contracting for software outside of his main school, and work is loving the downtown Detroit life.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e4f78ca-e367-c710-c8cb-557d1e1c1471"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shoot me an email with any fun things you’re working on that might be related, or just to generally reach out.</span></span>
Related Links:
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Grand_Valley_State_University GVSU Wiki]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGmKFqY06is GVSU YouTube Video]
Contact:
<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e4f78ca-e367-c710-c8cb-557d1e1c1471">[mailto:parsellb@mail.gvsu.edu <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">parsellb@mail.gvsu.edu</span>]</span>
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