Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Luke Fraser, CEO at Stepwise Innovation. They are a research and design firm that helps insurance carriers understand their customers as people and then develop growth strategies as a result of that which might include new products (both insurance and non-insurance) and new growth strategies. Luke Fraser: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukefraser/ Stepwise Innovation: https://www.step...

Tony chats with Matthew Fastow, Co-Founder and CEO at CoverFlow, they help insurance brokerages with the most important thing, customer happiness. They automate away a huge part of the busywork that brokers and account managers find themselves doing on a day-to-day basis. They run insurance paperwork through very specialized AI models that help identify things that humans might miss. Matthew Fasto...

Tony chats with Will Alverson who is leading the new Insurance Nerds Careers, an insurance job board and more, part of Insurance Nerds. Insurance Nerds Careers: https://careers.insnerds.com/ Will Alverson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-alverson/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/7Xa46-3drWQ

Tony chats with Heather Wilson, CEO at Clara Analytics, an end-to-end AI claims platform for Casualty and Comp. Clara's first appearance on Profiles in Risk was Ep. 390. Today we do an update where we talk about the evolution of Clara, how AI is affecting the insurance industry, and several other topics. Heather Wilson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-h-wilson-40a61b8/ Clara Analytics: ht...

Tony chats with Tim Maloney and Steven Romero, Co-Founders at Pre-Loss. They focus on the interception of Geospacial and P&C worlds and provide baseline scans for large commercial assets. Having a baseline scan helps prevent ambiguities at the time of loss and ensures claims are adjusted fairly. Steve Romero: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-romero-cpcu-aic-arm-sega-9657b2199/

Austin Moorhead, Founder at Lava Automation, they help independent brokers setup their CRM solution including drip marketing to rocket-fuel your new business sales and renewals. They have helped several hundred agencies setup their CRM automation and getting a big ROI. They (almost) guarantee you'll see a minimum of 25% in New Business! They also do VAs. An awesome, high-energy episode to cel...

Tony chats with Julianna Muir, Founder & CEO at Vellum Insurance, they are a data and analytics platform purpose-built for the insurance industry, specifically for insurance and reinsurance companies who receive bordereaus. They help ingest, validate, standardize and aggregate that information, and then add a powerful analytics layer on top. This allows their clients to go from a reactive posi...

Tony chats with Leandro Dallemulle, General Manager at Planck, Applied Systems; they are an AI-based platform for commercial lines underwriting and were recently acquired by Applied. They started with a focus on restaurants and bars, and have now expanded to be able to support underwriting in 80% of classes of businesses. Leandro Dallemule: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leandrodallemule/ Planck: htt...

Tony chats with Isabel Rodriguez, COO at Domu.ai. They automate communications for financial services. Their natural language AI system can handle all communications over different platforms, including voice calls. As of today, their technology fully handles 98% of calls. Isabela Rodriguez: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabela-r-438785170/ Domu: https://Domu.ai Video Version: https://youtu.be/XU86F...

Tony chats with Andre Symes, Group CEO at Genasys, they are a purpose led software development organization that develops policy and claims admin technology to serve the mid-markets from quote & bind all the way to claims fulfillment. Their purpose is to bring tier 1 technology to the mid-market players. They focus on serving the $50M to $500M GWP organizations. Andre Symes: https://www.linked...

Tony chats with Aaron Wright, Director of Strategy at Earnix, they help underwriters, actuaries, and product managers to utilize the data they have correctly, to leverage analytics and AI, simulate and forecast the results of decisions they make. Overall, it helps insurance companies to make better decisions AND to put those decisions into productions WITHOUT waiting for IT to do it for them. Fant...

Tony chats with David Embry, CEO at Mylo. They started as an in-house digital agency at a top-10 global broker. Today, they operate serving underserved high-volume low-premium transitions in personal and commercial lines and a little bit of benefits. Their platform is extremely focused on efficiency and an awesome user experience and now that they are independent their platform is available to oth...

Tony chats with Harris Clarke, Co-Founder at LodgePole Insurance, they are in the process of building a better way to provide coverage for homeowners in wildfire country. Harris Clarke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harris-clarke-28979/ LodgePole Insurance: https://www.lodgepoleinsurance.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/4Be9xW4BXxg

Tony chats with Patrick Cooney, Co-Founder and President at PowerBroker AI. They serve retail and wholesale agencies with an "AI brain for insurance" which can audit a policy, tell you what's included and what's been omited. They are also in the process of building industry specialization for industries like construction. Patrick Cooney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-coon...

Tony chats with Tom McClintock of Empowered Margins. They are an insurtech that works with insurance organizations to help them with their underwriting and actuarial software. Tom McClintock: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommcclintock/ Empowered Margins: https://www.empoweredmargins.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/Sm1OsXn28uM

Tony chats with Rock Schindler, Founder & CEO at SDRefinery AI, they are solving the growing problem that it takes too long for P&C claims leaders to identify processes, bottlenecks, and root causes of poor performance. They are solving that problem by reading every adjuster note and measuring key events, actions, and activities, creating operational metrics that radically increase the spe...

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-948040151/ Youth Healthtech: https://www.youth-health...

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 art and science of underwriting. Sandeep Hari...

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. Global adoption of insurance technolo...

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.com/in/lloyd-peters-7293983a/ Send: https://send.tec...

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 right before bringing sales reps helps enable your...

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.com/in/rob-jacomen/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/...

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 universal application for many markets and almost i...

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 entire home inside, and outside, at an affordable...

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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp3Z5Z6_uaE Vi...