Have you ever wondered what the top agency owners are doing to grow their book of business exponentially each and every month? I’ve personally grown my own agency to multiple locations and dozens of agents over the past 10 years learning from the industry’s leading experts and applying what they teach to my own agency, and now I’ve invited these same experts to share these industry-leading secrets...with you! My name is Jim Schubert and welcome to The Agents Growth Academy
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The largest insurtech podcast going on 500+ episodes. This is not your grandpa's insurance industry!
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Weekly conversations about the Liberal Arts and The Great Books with Wyoming Catholic College professors, board members,and guests.
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Jim Schubert, CEO at Southern States Insurance and Headmaster at Agents Growth Academy - PIR Ep. 578
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Tony chats with Jim Schubert, CEO at Southern States Insurance and Headmaster at Agents Growth Academy. Jim runs a second-generation family agency in Georgia which is very unique in the way they hire and retain their people. My team has recruited for SSI for about 18 months so I've personally seen how well it works and that's why I invited him on t…
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John Loeber, Co-Founder & Ceo at Limit - PIR Ep. 581
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Tony chats with John Loeber, Co-Founder and ceo at Limit, a digital platform that gives insurance brokers AI tools to make their day-to-day lives easier. Limit helps insurance professionals do deals faster, easier, and cheaper by taking care of the time-consuming things that kill their time. It offers a digital wholesale insurance platform with a u…
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Daniel Laguado, Founder & CEO at Ai Risk Management Solutions - PIR Ep. 580
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Tony chats with Daniel Laguado, Founder & CEO at Ai Risk Management Solutions, they help property owners negotiate insurance claims independently. Born out of the frustration as an independent adjuster of not having pre-loss details on the property Daniel developed a system using drones and high-quality cameras to create 3D documentation of the ent…
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Israel's journey continues in the wilderness as they approach Sinai and face additional challenges. Read Exodus 17:8-18:27 and thanks for listening!By Aaron Schubert
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Pat West, Carrier Relations Leader at GloveBox - PIR Ep. 579
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Tony chats with Pat West, GloveBox's Carrier Relations Leader. Pat is an insurtech veteran who gives us an update on what's going on at GloveBox. Pat West: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pat-west-977501102/ GloveBox: https://glovebox.app First PIR Episode with GloveBox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LoiFTv6B8s Original Episode with Pat West: https:…
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We continue the journey in the wilderness, as well as the murmuring and God's faithfulness. Read Exodus 16-17:7 and thanks for asking.By Aaron Schubert
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Richard Look and Marcus Cudd of Insurance Media Exchange IMX - PIR Ep. 577
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Tony chats with Richard Look and Marcus Cudd of Insurance Media Exchange IMX. A great discussion about marketing in the insurance world. Richard Look: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rlook/ Marcus Cudd: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcuscudd/ Insurance Media Exchange: https://insurancemediaexchange.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/okYMTqkL3k4 The G…
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Josh Levine, Founder & CEO at Cake & Arrow - PIR Ep. 576
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Tony chats with Josh Levine, Founder & CEO at Cake & Arrow. They are an experienced design and product innovation firm that works exclusively with the insurance industry. They partner with carriers, distributors, and service providers to leverage human-centered design and strategy throughout all stages of the product life-cycle. A great conversatio…
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We turn back to the Old Testament and the Exodus story, but pick up where we left off, after most of the famous stuff has already happened. So what are the rest of these chapters for? Read Exodus 15 and thanks for listening.By Aaron Schubert
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Vishal Rohra, CEO at Kay.AI - PIR Ep. 575
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Tony chats with Vishal Rohra, CEO at Kay.AI. They are on a mission to save thousands of hours from agency-side insurance professionals by building AI Coworkers that work with your people helping you grow your book of business. Their AI Coworkers can work with your existing system whether it's EZ Lynx, Applied, Vertafore, or any carrier portal witho…
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Timo Loescher, VP of Strategy at DMI - PIR Ep. 574
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Tony chats with Timo Loescher, VP of Strategy at DMI. We have a GREAT conversation about the insurance talent crisis and how technology might help. Timo Loescher: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timoloescher/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/VOjJpXaEfHY The Growth Gear Explore business growth and success strategies with Tim Jordan on 'The Growth Gear. L…
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Mike Mensch, Co-Founder and CEO at Agency Brokerage Consultants - PIR Ep. 573
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Tony chats with Mike Mensch, Co-Founder and CEO at Agency Brokerage Consultants. They are a merger and acquisition advisor to independent agencies. Mike Mensch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelmensch/ Agency Brokerage Consultants: https://www.agencybrokerage.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/8kqiHyHvJkE The Growth Gear Explore business growth…
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Luke 24: 13-35By Jim & Jason Buckley
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Michael Fiedel, Co-Founder and COO at PolicyFly - PIR Ep. 572
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Tony chats with Michael Fiedel, Co-Founder and COO at PolicyFly, a specialty insurance focused policy management platform that is specifically distribution enabled unlike policy management systems of the past that were more back office enabled. It's fully capable of providing a fully digital experience for both underwriters and agents/brokers. Mich…
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Sean Merat, Founder & CEO at Owl.co PIR Ep. 571
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I chat with Sean Merat, Founder & CEO at Owl.co. They utilize advanced models in order to provide deterministic indications for insurance carriers to make really accurate claims decisions as quickly as possible. They are one of the leading claims intelligence tools and are now serving 14 of the top 20 carriers in North America. Sean Merat: https://…
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"Follow the Leader" God's call for the game of our lives.
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Hebrews 11By Chris Morgan
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David Gritz, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Insurtech NY and the MGA Lab - PIR Ep. 570
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I chat with David Gritz, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Insurtech NY and the MGA Lab mostly about the lab and how they help MGAs launch and grow. This is masterclass on MGA creation and you cannot miss it! David Gritz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgritz/ Insurtech NY: https://www.insurtechny.com/ MGA Lab: https://www.insurtechny.com/mga-la…
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Rashid Galadanci, Co-Founder and CEO at Driver Technologies - PIR Ep. 569
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Tony chats with Rashid Galadanci, Co-Founder and CEO at Driver Technologies. They are a technology company that deals with driving and driving-related activities. They started with a mobile app with the idea of bringing AI safety and connectivity into the cars of today, including video and telematics. Putting all this info in the hands of the consu…
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Paul concludes this letter to the Corinthian church with a theme of community landcare. Read I Corinthians 16:1-24 and thanks for listening.By Dave Morneau
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Zehra Cataltepe, PhD, CEO at Tazi AI Systems - PIR Ep. 567
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Tony chats with Zehra Cataltepe, PhD, CEO at Tazi AI Systems. Returning to the show 2 years after her original appearance on Profiles in Risk. In this episode, Zehra and I discuss the real-life use cases she's seeing in the real insurance world. If you're at all interested in AI and its effects on insurance this is an ABSOLUTE must watch episode! Z…
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Jeff Radke, Co-Founder and CEO at Accelerant Holdings - PIR Ep. 566
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Tony chats with Jeff Radke, Co-Founder and CEO at Accelerant Holdings. Accelerant has been around for 5 years and exists to improve the specialty insurance value chain. They are "replatforming" the specialty insurance market. They serve specialty underwriters (MGAs and MGUs) and on the other side they serve risk capital sources. Their vision is an …
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Paul concludes his final topic of the resurrection with beautiful imagery about the power of God and last exhortation to live life in light of the Gospel. Read 1 Corinthians 15:35-58 and thanks for listening!By Aaron Schubert
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Nicole Nwesigwa, Co-Founder and COO at iCover Insure - PIR Ep. 565
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Tony chats with Nicole Nwesigwa, Co-Founder and COO at iCover Insure, they deliver the best life insurance buying experience. They offer and e-app and algorithmic underwriting to small and medium-sized life carriers. They can get the consumer through the process in 5 minutes, guaranteed! They started in the fraternal space and then grew into the mi…
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Lynn Miller, Product Dev. Strategist and Growth Consultant at Straight Talk Writer - PIR Ep. 564
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Tony chats with Lynn Miller, Product Dev. Strategist and Growth Consultant at Straight Talk Writer - PIR Ep. 564. They help experts to generate more revenue through the creation of monetizable online classes. Lynn Miller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/10xyourexpertise/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/Rf07KuzKJdY The Growth Gear Explore business growt…
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Eric Foster, Founder and CEO at Woop Insurance - PIR Ep. 563
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Tony chats with Eric Foster, Founder and CEO at Woop Insurance. Woop is an insurance technology platform company that works in the agency side to make personal lines insurance simple, transparent, and convenient. Their goal is to provide an unbiased database to help insurance consumers make data-based decisions. Eric Foster: https://www.linkedin.co…
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Cole Riccardi, Founder and CEO at Authentic - PIR Ep. 562
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Authentic is an insurance infrastructure company that allows any platform that touches small businesses to start their own captive program. It's an end-to-end solution to start your own insurance program and it's not just a button that issues other carrier's paper. It actually allows you to build your own program on the back of Authentic. You actua…
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Paul turns to his final subject, the resurrection of Jesus that forms the central message of the gospel which he is calling the Corinthians to live in light of. Read 1 Corinthians 15:1-34 and thanks for listening!By Aaron Schubert
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Tony chats with fellow elder millennial Mike Tansey about his insurance career. Mike spent time first in claims and underwriting in a regional carrier and then joined an independent agency. We chat about how to grow your insurance career and advice for management on how to engage and retain their Millennial and Gen Z employees. Mike Tansey: https:/…
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Peter Tilbrook, Founder and CEO at Loro Insurtech - PIR Ep. 560
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Tony chats with Peter Tilbrook, Founder and CEO at Loro Insurtech, the world's first free insurtech! 🤯 Loro (which means parrot in Spanish) and their vision is to be the Shopify of insurance. Shopify is the best-known shopping engine on the web. Anyone, anywhere in the world looking to digitally sell an insurance product can do that with Loro in a …
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Paul concludes his section on the gathering together of believers with some good general principles and some deeply perplexing words. Read 1 Corinthians 14:26-40 and thanks for listening.By Aaron Schubert
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Angie Richards, VP at Poms & Associates - PIR Ep. 559
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Tony chats with Angie Richards, VP at Poms & Associates about her career in employee benefits and her very unique approach to that side of the insurance field. Angie Richards: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angie-richards-402b34a/ Poms & Associates: https://www.pomsassoc.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/ftOvt__F-kw The Growth Gear Explore business…
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Empowering Agencies with Big Tech: AgencyBloc's Innovation in Insurance (Profiles in Risk E557)
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In this episode of Profiles in Risk (E557), Nick Lamparelli engages with Tim Robinson and Corey Schmidt from AgencyBloc to delve into the transformative journey of their technology platform. As a CEO with extensive experience in software solutions across various industries, Tim Robinson shares his transition from web development to creating a compr…
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Tony chats with Marissa Rutkowski, Founder and Co-Chair of IndispensAbility at Applied Systems. They are a community of interest for mental and physical abilities of all kinds - seen and unseen; and fellow Board Member at Insure Equality. Marissa is one of the insurance industry's leading advocates for mental health and is doing crucially important…
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Paul concludes his section on the gathering together of believers with some good general principles and some deeply perplexing words. Read 1 Corinthians 14:26-40 and thanks for listening.By Aaron Schubert
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Charlie Sidoti, Executive Director at InnSure - PIR Ep. 556
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Tony chats with Charlie Sidoti, Executive Director at InnSure, they are a non-profit innovation hub focused on innovation in insurance related to climate change. They look at it through the lens of what does the world need from the insurance industry to help with climate change, and is also good business for the insurance industry. How can insuranc…
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Cyrus Karai, CEO at CoverForce - PIR Ep. 555
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Tony chats with Cyrus Karai, CEO at CoverForce, they help strengthen agencies by offering the best infrastructure to connect commercial P&C agencies and carriers. The help carriers digitize their access points to agents, brokers, banks, etc. They offer a unified API that lets you access several of the leading P&C commercial lines carriers. Cyrus Ka…
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Paul famously describes love, but not in the context of marriage but between Christians united in Christ. Read 1 Corinthians 13 and thanks for listening.By Aaron Schubert
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Marlena Sarunac and Lubna Hameed at The Company Advice - PIR Ep. 554
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Tony chats with Marlena Sarunac and Lubna Hameed, Co-Founders at The Company Advice. (For High Ds: actual content starts at 4:10.) They provide design leadership and execution to startups from the very beginning by bringing them in a fractional capacity. They have extensive experience in insurtech, healthtech, fintech, and more. Marketing and desig…
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Sivan Iram, Founder and CEO at Flow - PIR Ep. 553
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Tony chats with Sivan Iram, Founder and CEO at Flow, they are a next-generation wholesale broker specializing in financial lines providing wholesale services that are needing help in those lines of business. A different approach - specialized in middle and small commercial, and already featuring 50 carriers. Sivan Iram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/…
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Woody Klemmer, Head of Growth at ForMotiv - PIR Ep. 552
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Tony chats with Woody Klemmer, Head of Growth at ForMotiv. They use behavioral data science, a combination of behavioral analytics and real-time data science to help Life and P&C carriers to analyze how people fill out their digital applications. They call this digital body language, and it allows them to identify risk, non-disclosure, premium leak…
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Joseph Zaarour, Founder @ ISolvRisk - PIR Ep. 551
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We catch up with Joseph Zaarour, Founder at ISolvRisk. Joseph is on a mission to solve insurance and risk management's talent problem with incredibly innovative solutions. ISolvRisk is pivoting to a really cool new idea we'd love to come to fruition because it's brilliant! Joseph Zaarour: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-zaarour-8769a6177/ ISolvR…
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Dave Olchowka, Founder and CEO at Prizm Insurance - PIR Ep. 550
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I chat with Dave Olchowka, Founder and CEO at Prizm Insurance, the first and only tech-enabled insurance brokerage that catered to the high-net worth personal lines space. Dave Olchowka: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-olchowka-2523ab13b/ Prizm Insurance: https://www.prizminsurance.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/WFCnzUtc3QM The Growth Gear E…
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Paul addresses a matter of greater importance as he turns to his famous passage on the Lord's Supper and addresses how they have abused it. Read 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 and thanks for listening!By Aaron Schubert
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Miguel Edwards, Founder and Principal Consultant at FiveM Consulting - PIR Ep. 549
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Tony chats with Miguel Edwards, Founder and Principal Consultant at FiveM Consulting. Miguel is a former Carrier CIO at two different carriers and has a strong strategy background on cloud migration and data. His new consulting firm is focused on bringing his big carrier experience to the small carrier space ($100M to $500M in premium). His team of…
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Tinsley English, Author of "Grit, Growth, and Gumption for Women" - PIR Ep. 548
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Tony chats with Tinsley English, Author of "Grit, Growth, and Gumption for Women". We talk about her amazing book and dig so deep into it that we literally run out of time! If you are a woman wanting to grow into leadership or who just recently got her first big promotion this is the manual you've been waiting for! Tinsley English: https://www.link…
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Ann Boger, CEO at Bramble and Bird Consulting - PIR Ep. 547
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Tony chats with Ann Boger, CEO at Bramble and Bird Consulting, a new consulting firm in the intersection of tech, insurance, healthcare, and finance. They help regulated industries solve thorny problems. They are a group of seasoned insurance and finance professionals who love to build things. They've come together to help startups, carriers, and c…
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Paul begins to transition from areas of freedom to corporate worship as he addresses head coverings. Read 1 Corinthians 11:1-16 and thanks for listening.By Aaron Schubert
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Alex Branning, Founder of Agent CRM - PIR Ep. 546
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Tony chats with Alex Branning, Founder of Agent CRM, a marketing and sales platform specifically built for insurance agencies to do all of marketing under one platform with a strong focus on compliance. Alex Branning: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbranning/ Agent CRM: https://www.agent-crm.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/wFWGNp4gE7s The Grow…
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Martha Dreilling, Co-Founder and COO at Reserv PIR Ep. 545
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Tony chats with Martha Dreilling, Co-Founder and COO at Reserv, a digitally native TPA that is rebuilding the model using best-in-class technology to aid the adjusters and marrying that with the very best adjusting talent to deliver the very best service. Martha Dreilling: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martha-dreiling-a894679/ Reserv: https://www.res…
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