Tony chats with Johannes Kraus, Co-Founder at YOUTH Healthtech, a smartphone-based health screening. With just your phone and 2 minutes of your phone using a face video, an audio recording, and a picture of your eye, and with that they screen for 23 biomarkers in seven health areas 🤯. Johannes Kraus: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-kraus-94804…

Tony chats with Sandeep Haridas, EVP Business Head of Chief Strategy Officer at IntellectAI, they are focused on helping financial institutions build wealth management and insurance products. Within insurance they are a niche player focused on truly creating an underwriting ecosystem in the commercial insurance space. They are devoted and dedicated…

The episode of Profiles in Risk features Dr. Yael Benvenisti discussing Israel's innovative culture in the insurtech sector. Key topics include: 1. Israel's entrepreneurial spirit in insurtech 2. Technology's role in transforming insurance, especially in gerontology 3. The need for new underwriting models incorporating predictive technologies 4. Gl…

Lloyd Peters, Head of Revenue at Send, an underwriting workbench which is a single desktop that gives all underwriting a team a single place to work and progress core underwriting activity from broker submission all the way to binding and booking the policy. It includes all the activities you need in one place. Lloyd Peters: https://www.linkedin.co…

I chat with Lance Dowdell and Max Smith, Co-Founders at Motive Engage, they can help insurance agencies and insurtechs establish the foundation for their sales force: Proper sales processes, proper sales tech stack, understanding your ideal customer, onboarding your salespeople, sales enablement, getting your product/market fit right. Getting this …

I chat with Rob Jacomen, Founder and Chief Growth Officer at HPX, they help insurance agents and brokers go from commoditized generalists to highly valued and respected specialist. They offer consulting and coaching to help you niche down, build, grow, and scale a book of business that dominates specific niches. Rob Jacomen: https://www.linkedin.co…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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/VOjJpXaEfHYBy Insurance Nerds

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…

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…

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://…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:/…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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/…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

Tony chats with Tiana Showe, COO & Co-Founder at meshVI, they are a transportation insurance administration platform. They take all the manual processes that exist in transportation insurance: vehicle schedules, driver schedules, and much more in a single platform that's accessible by insureds, agents, wholesalers, brokers, carriers, adjusters, lie…

Tony chats with Valkyrie Holmes Co-Founder and CEO at Faura, they help homeowners understand how likely their home is to survive a natural disaster after a 10 minute app-based assessment. A dollar of mitigation can prevent $4 to $7 in avoided future losses. Valkyrie Holmes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valkyrieholmes/ Faura: https://faura.us/ Video …

Tony chats with Chantal Roberts, long-time insurance professional, fellow CPCU, and author of the new book "Once Upon a Claim". A wonderful, uplifting conversation you should not miss! Chantal Roberts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chantal-roberts-cmrconsulting/ Once Upon a Claim: https://amzn.to/3wi1b7n Video Version: https://youtu.be/Tnst7XAEA58…

Tony chats with Gage Caligaris, Founder and CEO at Ledgebrook, a tech-enabled E&S MGA. Using data and insurance expertise to improve E&S. Taking the best of modern technology and the best of insurance people and combining that into a compelling offering for the brokers that set you up with faster and more consistent quotes. Gage Caligaris: https://…

Tony chats with Vivek Kaliraman, Founder at Perci, they are an all-in-one disaster preparedness solution to help consumers protect their family and their home. It can also be offered as an employee benefit. Almost two thirds of people are not prepared for disasters! Vivek Kaliraman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-kaliraman/ Perci: https://perci.…

Tony chats with Manish Khetan, Co-Founder and President of Xceedance. They are basically an insurance company without capital and distribution! How does that work!?!?! They specialize in helping insurtech and insurance organizations, especially in P&C Large Commercial space. Once an insurance company has secured capital and has a distribution netwo…

Tony chats with Andrew Suesserman, Chief Revenue Officer at Affinity Advisors, a digital insurance platform, where retail brokers, wholesaler brokers, and associations who work with a lot of small and middle market businesses can use the platform to very quickly rate, quote and bind various types of insurance including: Cyber, D&O, EPLI, and other …