Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Mitch Cohen, Founder & CEO at ClearLine, a crisis communications readiness and response platform. They help companies manage reputation risk at the enterprise level. A very interesting conversation on an area of risk we don't think about often. Mitch Cohen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cohenmitch/

Tony chats with Kelvin Johnson, CEO at Brevity Pitch. They offer a platform for people to practice high-stakes conversations with avatars that sound like a real human. They also offer AI roleplays and coaching. This can be a huge difference maker for sales teams! Kelvin Johnson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelvin-johnson-cpa/ Brevity Pitch: https://www.brevitypitch.com/ Video Version: https://yout...

Tony chats with The Salty Adjuster, host of the newest podcast in the insurance world, hosted by an anonymous adjuster with lots of heart. A fantastic conversation. The Salty Adjuster: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-salty-adjuster/id1896769744

Tony chats with Joel Plofsky about his career from actuary to a long career on the systems side and product side. A fascinating conversation with great advice for the next generation. Joel Plofsky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelplofsky/

I chat with Hayden Robinson, Venture Manager at Creative Destruction Lab. They operate in 10+ countries and have 16+ locations across the world. They are a startup accelerator and incubator specialized in a number of streams including Risk which includes all things risk and insurance. A new cohort starts soon, so you want to apply now! Watch it on the Insurance Nerds YouTube Channel or listen to i...

Tony chats with Illia Pinchuk, Founder and CEO at DICEUS, they help insurers, MGAs, and Captives providing back-end and front-end solutions including Underwriting Workbench, Policy Administration, General Ledger, and Group Administration Services. Illia Pinchuk: https://www.linkedin.com/in/illiapinchuk/ DICEUS: https://diceus.com/insurance/

Tony chats with Jens Nasstrom, Head Founder & Head of Science at Precuro,  they provide Cognitive Risk Intelligence for claims. What exactly does that mean? They provide a new variable in claims. Claims can have the same injury, same diagnosis, and somehow one resolves in three weeks the other one becomes a painful three year long claim. The different isn't the injury, it's the minds...

I chat with Natalie Arroyave, Host of Adjuster Hour & Director of Corporate Engagement at RISE and we chat about our podcasts, her career, claims, RISE, and much more. Such a fun conversation between two people who are passionate about insurance, from very different backgrounds! Natalie Arroyave: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliearroyave/ Adjuster Hour: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=...

Tony has an awesome career chat with Scott Johnson. Scott's dad was a State Farm agent for 37 years. Scott started his career in claims, and then grew into sales and eventually sales management. He's been killing it in Sales Management for decades now! So much to learn on this episode! Scott Johnson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-johnson-6113a850/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/_Fsp...

Tony chats with Josh Graham, CEO & Founder at Ehab, they have created a weather modeling tool which helps businesses to tailor forecasts to what they do. A fascinating conversation you should not miss! Josh Graham: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshmcgraham/ Ehab: https://ehab.co/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/OHeSV2-ybBU

I chat with Dan Kies, Client Executive at Camunda, a software company focused on agentic orchestration. They’ve been doing orchestration for a long time and now they have better tools to do it with and are focused on doing it for claims and complex underwriting. Dan Kies: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-kies/ Camunda: https://www. Camunda.com Video Version: https://youtu.be/en5W2IPPcAQ

Tony chats with Douglas Escobar - PIR Ep. 817, a long-time insurance professionals who helps others invest in Real Estate. He makes a great case that Real Estate is a perfect fit for the skillset of insurance pros.

Tony chats with Will Kastroll, Owner at Harbour Insurance and Co-Founder & CEO at OrangeAI. Exclusively on Profiles in Risk, Will announces the creation of an insurtech created by agents, for agents, building the first fully Agentic AME (Agency Management Ecosystem), more than an AMS! An incredible conversation!

Tony chats with Jennifer Doty, Speaker & Author Helping Leaders Get Unstuck about her career, transitions, the people who helped, her books, and so much more. Jennifer Doty: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-sierveld-doty/ and https://jenniferdoty.com/

Tony chats with Jamie Ballot, Insurance Communications Expert about his career from publishing to insurance communications and we nerd out about how the industry can communicate better. A fascinating conversation! Jamey Ballot: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesballot/

On Profiles in Risk - Ep. 813, I chat with Conor  Cunneen - IrishmanSpeaks. What a wonderful conversation! If you need speaker to motivate salespeople and so much more, you really can't go wrong with going Irish! And when you do hire him to keynote your next big conference send me a media pass because I'm dying to see him live! ☘️ 🇮🇪 WATCH IT NOW ON THE INSURANCE NERDS YOUTUBE CHANNEL OR...

Tony chats with returning guest Bob Frady, Co-Founder & CEO at PropertyLens. Bob is on his second round as an insurtech co-founder after a successful exit from HazardHub. We talk about his PropertyLens which is basically a CarFax for homes, and much more. A GREAT CONVERSATION YOU CANNOT MISS! Bob Frady: linkedin.com/in/bobfrady/ Property Lens: https://www. PropertyLens.com Video Version: https...

Tony chats with Jared Kaplan, Co-Founder & CEO at indigo, they are dedicated to MedMal and they are building an incredibly innovative MGA platform that blends the best new tech to disrupt an old school-industry. An incredible episode! Jared Kaplan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jared-kaplan-683412/ indigo: https://www.getindigo.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/PO_rTvMsThE

Tony chats with returning guest Jeff Arnold, Founder of RightSure and Prolific Author of multiple books. Jeff describes himself as "the luckiest hillbilly in the world". From his childhood in rural Kentucky he ended up running, buying, and selling insurance agencies, writing books, and having an extremely influential career and life. What a great conversation! A must listen to episode! J...

Bill Devine, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Naitiv Partners, they are a brand new company positioned around the concept that the financial industry, including insurance, has a challenge implementing AI. It's a not a tech problem, it's a business problem! This was a FASCINATING conversation you cannot miss! Bill Devine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-devine-047b571/ Naitiv Partners:...

I chat with returning guest Chris Luiz, CEO at Scout Insurtech about their upcoming conference May 26-27 in Columbus, OH. Beyond that we chat about the AMAZING organization he has built. Scout Insurtech is MUCH more than a conference and this episode is a MUST listen to! See you in Columbus! Chris Luiz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-luiz/ Scout Insurtech: https://www.scoutinsurtech.com C...

Tony chats with Sridhar Ravilla, Author of "Transformation that Lands". After 21 years in IT leadership at AT&T, Sridhar took some time off to reflect on everything he had seen. What made sense? What didn't make sense? Took some time to try to see the forest for the trees and understand the patters of projects that succeed, and crucially projects that don't succeed. A fasci...

Tony chats with Tom Wetzel, AI for Insurance Agents and Cyber Crime Expert. This is a quick update on how cyber criminal are using Agentic AI and what you can do about it. This affects us all: Tom Wetzel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaswetzel957/?skipRedirect=true Prior Episode on PIR: https://youtu.be/bSCQU9QiMZI?si=bd8iTrQm1_fC00uy Video Version: https://youtu.be/fjltAREVkdE

I chat with Kabir Syed, Founder & CEO at ennabl, they enable insurance intermediaries seamlessly manage data and workflows to drive growth and profitability. If you're on the agency/brokerage side of insurance, this is a MUST listen. We had a great conversation, including my obsession with the sweetest guy in insurance, my friend Ryan Deeds 😂 . The average $5M+ insurance brokage uses 50+...

Tony chats with Ann Kelley, Autorpreneur, Speaker and Creative, author of Roof Rules: How Hidden Power Dynamics Shape Personal Development. We chat about career development, how the rules have changed, how to grow talent, and so much more. A career conversation you should not miss! Ann Kelly: https://wwww.linkedin.com/in/ann-kelley-greville-124bb038a/?skipRedirect=true Roof Rules: https://amzn.to/...