Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Trace Meek, Founder and CEO at Fetch! They are an underwriting filter machine that has digested the guidelines for many homeowner's carriers and the system will quickly tell you which carrier will write the risk. Trace Meek: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trace-meek-trs-0a306411/ Fetch! : https://fetchuw.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/pFb9hFEd7TE

Tony chats with Ross Huart, CEO at EcoClaim. They are a training and certification body that uses a variety of technology and software solutions to help insurers prepares for their road to net zero carbon footprint. First they're focusing on the property claims process where traditionally very little thought is given to how damaged materials are disposed of. Their first product EcoDivert trai...

Tony chats with Chris Schrenk, Chief Underwriting Officer at NeuralMetrics. They were created to solve a lot of questions when it comes to small business insurance how to really know some of the important underwriting attributes of any specific small business. They help classify the business correctly and can quickly find a lot of the important risk attributes of each small risk to help the underw...

Mental health is crucially important to your wellbeing and career. Yet, before 2020 we basically never talked about Mental Health in the corporate world, it was a taboo. Luckily things have changed. In 2022, Tony happened to see 3 sessions at insurance conferences about mental health including a fantastic panel at AppliedNet. In today's episode two of the panelists come on Profiles in Risk, t...

Tony chats with Sheldon Ohringer about the Global Insurance Accelerator and his new operation "How to Buy your 1st Business". Sheldon Ohringer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheldon-s-ohringer-3985565/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/hmawpfaNhT4

Tony chats with Michael Vervena, VP of Sales and Marketing at iGUIDE, a property documentation company offers a camera system that uses lidar measurement technology with 360 panoramic images to document the built world. It measures and creates digital twins of interior spaces, which can be incredibly useful for property claims. Michael Vervena: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelvervenasalesmarket...

Tony chats with Gary Davis, National Practice Leader at Noyo. Noyo is building the digital infrastructure to bring health insurance enrollment into the modern era. Noyo replaces today’s manual data entry and cumbersome legacy systems with a powerful API platform that enables faster, more accurate data exchange between health insurance platforms and their carrier partners. Gary Davis: https://www.l...

Tony chats with Chris Cline, Author of The Inertia of Legacy, about his career, book, and many different aspects of the insurance industry. A fascinating conversation between two guys with a passion for insurance and growth. Chris Cline: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-cline-0195121b/ The Inertia of Legacy: https://www.amazon.com/Inertia-Legacy-Newtons-Transformative-Managing/ Video Version: htt...

Tony chats with Jason Keck, CEO at Broker Buddha and Hayden Parra, Head of Internal Development. We discussed Broker Buddha and Acturis entry's into the US market through the merger with Broker Buddha and why there's great synergy between the two companies. Jason Keck: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkeck/ Hayden Parra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayden-parra-83b413a2/ Broker Buddha: h...

Tony chats with Peter Dawson of the 831B Institute. Section 831(B) section was setup by Congress in 1986 to provide an insurance solution for small business owners to procure insurance that's not readily available. The 831(B) Institute promotes guidance, education, and compliance of 831(b) microcaptives 831(B) Institute: https://www.831binstitute.org/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/dLREptpPn...

Tony chats with Margaret Spence, Founder at The Inclusion Learning Lab, an online immersive community-based learning platform designed for talent leaders with the goal of making sure that together we can create an inclusive future for everyone. We have a great conversation on DEI in the corporate world. This was a very honest conversation where I learned a lot. Margaret Spence: https://www.linkedi...

Tony chats with Philip Wright, Actuary and Extroverted Introvert about how to improve your interviewing game, especially if you're an actuary. Video Version:  https://youtu.be/4Ab9UEs9Ndc

Tony chats with Jennifer Carroll, CEO at Veruna. We have a fantastic time chatting about Veruna and I loved her passion. Veruna is a core system for independent insurance agents, more than just an AMS. They're an AMS, CRM, and Carrier Relationships Management Tool. Jennifer Carroll: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferc... Veruna: https://www.veruna.com/ Video Version: https://www.youtube.com...

Tony chats with David Sussman, CEO at Alana. They are a platform that encourages customer engagement and helps reduce claims keeping insurance top of mind, not just at renewal or during a claim. David Sussman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidsussman/ Alana: https://www.alana.net/

Tony chats with Jen Pugsley, VP of Customer Success at Goose Digital. Goose is Canada’s leading marketing performance agency with a specialty in insurance serving both Canada and US insurance organizations. Jen Pugsley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-pugsley-turcsanyi-4ba73234/ Goose Digital: https://goosedigital.com/

Tony chats with Marco Benitez, CEO and Co-Founder at Rook. They enable any brand in the digital health and insurance ecosystems to use data from any wearable device and turn it into actionable insights and predictions. Their API already has more than 300 wearables integrated.  Marco Benitez: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcobzg/ Rook: https://www.tryrook.io/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/oKJSagX...

Zach Mefferd, Co-Founder and CEO at ZipBonds.com, a surety bond brokerage offering a very open and capable digital platform. They serve agents and help them become subject matter experts in Surety Bonds. Zach Mefferd: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-mefferd-cic-62206426/ Zip Bonds: https://zipbonds.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/oKJSagXAybE

Tony chats with Dr. Billy Williams, CEO of Williams Family Insurance and Investment Group. We chat about his history in the agency space from captive to independent to investor. We also talk about his book "Sales Objection Pocket Guide" Dr. Billy William: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billyrwilliams/ Sales Objection Pocket Guide: https://www.amazon.com/Responses-Overcome-Sales-Objections-P...

Tony chats with Chris Schrenk, CUO at NeuralMetrics. They focus on solving issues for small business insurance. How do we identify a small business? How do we identify their real attributes? It all started with classifying the operation of the business and now also helps the underwriter get a lot of other information to help them quickly and properly underwrite the account. Chris Schrenk: https://...

Tony chats with Chaz Perera, Co-Founder and CEO at Roots Automation. They leverage AI that acts as an Underwriting Assistant and as a Claims Assistant to help Underwriters and Claims professionals do their jobs more efficiently. A lot of what they do is digest unstructured data and put in a format your systems can understand. Chaz Perera: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chazperera/ Roots Automation: h...

"Show me one insurance company and I'll show you ONE insurance company" - Former Boss Technology has changed more in the past 25 years than it has in the past 250! And most of us wouldn't be surprised if this acceleration, accelerates! This rapid change has caused havoc in an industry such as insurance that has not had much evolutionary change in 100 years. Insurers were one of...

Tony chats with Chris Greene, President at The Flood Insurance Guru. They help agents with flood insurance for today and education for tomorrow. All agents and brokers that do any flood should check this out, lots of free tools, and all the help you could need for flood. Chris Greene: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-greene-92147812/ Flood Insurance Guru: https://www.floodinsuranceguru.com/ Video...

Tony chats with Pamela Corey, President of the Chinese American Insurance Association, about the history and current activities of the association. Pamela Corey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamela-corey-37279412/ Chinese American Insurance Association: https://www.caiaus.org/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/wJLnES3-6K0

Tony chats with Benjamin Goldfien, VP of Insurance Operations at Sayata, the easiest place for wholesale insurance brokers to place business insurance for small commercial risks. They were originally featured in PIR Ep. 343 and today we do an update, and we chat about Benjamin's career and how he ended up at Sayata. Benjamin Goldfien: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamingoldfiencpcu/ Sayata:...

Tony chats with Kevin Ring, Lead WC Analyst a The Institute of Work Comp Professionals. They train, certifies, and mentor independent agents in a Work Comp process that helps them write more business and get better results for their clients. They offer the Certified Work Comp Advisor and Certified Work Comp Specialist destinations. After going through the program, they serve as the agency's w...