Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Brian Graff, CEO & Founder at Vibe Insurance, a platform connecting insurance buyers looking for new insurance and matching them with top rated agencies in their specific niche. They work both Commercial and Personal Lines. Brian Graff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-graff-a27aa782/ Vibe Insurance: https://www.vibeinsurance.co/

Tony chats with Amit Chabra, Founder & CEO at InEvo AI, they are a platform for intake process optimization utilizing all the modern technologies. It manages InEvo's AI agents and even external AI agents to optimize your intake process. For now they are serving Commercial Auto and Commercial Property with more lines to come. Amit Chabra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitchabra/ InEvo AI: h...

Tony chats with Varun Mishra, Founder & CEO at AgenQ. They have created the GPS for business software. Just like Google Maps or Waze directs you turn by turn with an arrow, AgenQ guides you through your business software at every click, wherever and whenever you need help. Varun Mishra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishravarun/ AgenQ: https://agenq.com/

Tony chats with Stephen Collins, Co-Founder & Executive Director at ManageMy, an insurance platform dedicated to create the best customer journeys for the entire value chain across Life, Health, and P&C. Stephen Collins: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-collins-7b71b314/ ManageMy: https://managemy.com

Tony chats with Luis Pino, CEO & Founder at Agentero, for an update on Agentero. They have a network of 2,000 agencies. They realized they needed a way to manage compliance so they built ProducerFlow a compliance platform for carriers and MGAs, which they now offer to the rest of the market. If compliance in your operation is compliance, you should take a look at ProducerFlow! Luis Pino: https...

Tony chats with William Steenbergen, Co-Founder & CTO at Federato, the only AI native platform that truly covers the full policy life cycle. They do everything from submission, running AI agents to quote, handling forms, managing issues, endorsements, and ultimately renewing policies. William Steenbergen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamsteenbergen/ Federato: https://www.federato.ai/

Tony chats with Jose Cruz, President at CS9 Consulting. Jose is a long-time proven sales leader who has led the selling of over half a billion dollars of premium. In his next chapter, he is now a consulting to helping insurance organizations grow faster, smarter, and more profitably. Jose Cruz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseacruz/ CS9 Consulting: https://cs9consulting.com/

Tony chats with Rob Reynolds, Founder & CEO and Michelle Middleton, COO at Fall Lines Specialty about the quickly emerging world of AI Liability and how insurance agents need to start preparing for this. A fascinating conversation. Fall Lines Speciality is a specialty insurance platform that delivers technology to compete in an AI enabled marketplace. Rob Reynolds: https://www.linkedin.com/in/...

Clifford Cohen, Strategic Enterprise Account Executive at Epoq joined me for a quick episode. He'll be joining the Insurance Nerds Reception at ITC, Monday 6 pm at Rhythm and Riffs. Epoq is a pioneer for legal technology in the insurance industry and can white label a wide range of legal services with your insurance policy, along with creating non-risk revenue.

Tony chats with Jerry Chie, CEO at Guava. They are reimagining what insurance can look like, if it was sold based on reward and they are building the loyalty platform for insurance with appropriate messaging deeply integrated to keep the customers engaged. Jerry Chien: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerrychienx/ Guava: https://guavainsurance.com/

Tony chats with Basil Mimi, Co-Founder & CEO at Mantas, a parametric MGA focused on cloud outage insurance and other digital risks. Basil Mimi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/basilmimi/ Mantas: https://mantas.ai/

Tony chats with Gary Lavoie, CEO at Tru-North. Tech. They are much more than a Worker's Compensation platform, they are a whole new worker-centric way to reorganize the way we handle Worker's Compensation claims! A mission driven company set on finally rolling out the Advocacy Based Care that the WorkComp side of the industry has been discussing for a long time. I learned a lot about Wor...

Tony chats with Aqeel Ali, Managing Partner at Salience Solutions, they help insurance agents with their AI transformations by building the operational infrastructure agents need in the new world. Aqeel Ali: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliaqeel/ Salience Solutions: https://salience.solutions/

Tony chats with Onur Gungor, Founder & CEO at Allegory, they are building the world's first AI-native predictive infrastructure for risk management, insurance, and reinsurance. AllegoryOS processes your data and predicts what happens next with surgical precision. Onur Gungor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/onur-gungor/

On a very special episode of Profiles in Risk featuring our friends that are joining us at the Insurance Nerds reception at ITC, Monday 6 pm at Mandalay Bay, I chat with Saurav Basu and Chuck Gomez at Exavalu, a boutique tech services and professional services firm created to serve the insurance industry specifically. Saurav Basu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sauravbasu/ Chuck Gomez: https://www.li...

Tony chats with Reda Jarir, Co-Founde & CEO at URLab, they offer a new operating system for actuarial risk. It's a whole data platform/ecosystem including coding for actuaries. It includes an actuarial knowledge base and AI agents specifically designed to help actuaries. Rada Jarir: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reda-jarir-0782502b/ URLab: https://www.urlab.ai/en

Tony chats with Sunit Shah, Founder & CEO at Soteris, historically insurance has been a probabilistic game of large numbers. We can't predict which policy is going to be unprofitable, but if we write enough policies of similar characteristics we can predict the total losses of the portfolio and manage that risk. Soteris is aiming to predict what was considered unpredictable and predicting...

Tony chats with Santi Jaramillo, Co-Founder, Co-CEO & AI Transformation Lead at Pragmatico. They embed a full AI function within client organizations to drive AI cultural change, leadership behaviors, and proficiency measurement that make AI adoption sustainable and measurable. They have had AMAZING results helping even very traditional insurance carriers. A fascinating conversation. Santi Jar...

Robert Lewis, CEO and Devon Ellett, COO at INTX Insurance Software will be joining us for the Insurance Nerds Reception at ITC Monday, September 28 at 6 pm at Rhythm and Rifts. INTX they are the only platform built to run ceded and assumed reinsurance with policy, claims, and billing unified in the same system. They are looking forward to meet you at ITC! Don't miss our reception!

Tony chats with Carl Ziade, Co-Founder at Gaya, they are focused on super copy, super paste for insurance agents, they have created a browser extension now being used by 300+ agencies. It helps agents quote in multiple carrier portals 3-5x faster with some very exciting new agentic features coming soon. Carl Ziade: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlziade/ Gaya: https://gaya.ai/

Tony chats with Wayne Slavin, CEO at Sure, they are a technology infrastructure company helping the world's biggest brands build insurance operations to serve their customers. Wayne Slavin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayneslavin/ Sure: https://www.sureapp.com/

I chat with Sean Steigerwal, Founder and CEO at CustomerIQ, they are a revenue intelligence platform for agents and brokers to help speed up deal cycles and improve service. They do this by direct integration with their inbox, VOIP system, and AMS. A very innovative approach! Sean Steigerwald: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-steigerwald-77120272/ CustomerIQ: https://www.getcustomeriq.com/

Tony chats with Alex Martin, Co-Founder & CEO at Clearspeed, they came from the military side and developed a revolutionary technology that helps insurance organizations detect fraud and establish trust through analyzing signals in voice conversations. Alex Martin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandersmartin/ Clearspeed: https://www.clearspeed.com/

Tony chats with Jay Bell, long-time insurance executive and author of Author of The Goat in the Machine. Jay will be attending the Insurance Nerds Reception at ITC 2026 and will be signing copies of his book. Jay Bell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaybbell/ The Goat in the Machine: https://goat-in-the-machine.kit.com/

Tony chats with Jesse Benedick, CEO & Co-Founder at Chainmail Solutions, an insurtech MGA helping protect the gaps especially around hurricane deductibles using an IoT grid that helps verify the exact conditions at the property. Jesse Benedick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-benedick-b436833/ Chainmail Solutions: https://www.chainmailsolutions.ai/