Profiles in Risk

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/

Tony chats with John Brunette, long-time insurance expert and insurance education consultant. We chat about his career, about the future of insurance talent, advice for the next generation, and more. John Brunette: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbrunette/

Tony chats with Jeppe Norregaard, Founder at InReality, a tech company that provides technology to guarantee something is real, a video, a photo, or anything digital. Security from glass to glass, from the camera to the final person seeing it to identify what's fake or synthetic. It's a unique approach, instead of trying to identify fakes, they secure the data with encryption the moment...

Tony chats with Karmina Szymanski, Head of Communications at District Cover about their Urban Risk Report, a deep dive report highlighting the growing insurance protection gap and capacity pullback affecting metropolitan business communities. A fascinating report. We can expand coverage to traditionally underserved businesses! Download the report: https://www.districtcover.com/urban-risk-report-20...

Tony chats with Sat Ramphal, Co-Founder & CEO at Maya AI, they are a conversational AI platform to help agents with retention and performance. Sat Ramphal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satramphal/ Maya AI: https://mayaknows.com/

Tony chats with Craig Bender, CEO at InsureU2, they help insurance organizations through modernizing operations to improve performance and scale intelligently. Craig Bender: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-bender-6165a7183/ InsureU2: https://insureu2.club/

Rich Cooper, Global Head of Market Transformation at Fusion Risk Management, they provide an enterprise resilience platform used by most of the large carriers and much of the financial services industry. We discuss their newest Enterprise Resilience Report. Download the Enterprise Resilience Report: https://www.fusionrm.com/whitepapers/the-enterprise-resilience-report/?utm_source=profiles-in-risk&...

Tony chats with Kevin Finn, Co-Founder and Reuben Vandeventer, Co-Founder and Head of Research at Tessera, the new product management operating system for P&C insurance. Kevin Finn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-finn-13b4852/ Reuben Vandeventer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reubenjvandeventer/ Tessera: https://mytessera.ai/

Tony chats with Spencer McDonald, CEO at Expert Insured, a systems providers focused on MGAs, Wholesales, and Carriers. They offer a modern Policy Admin System at a priced that is reasonable from a startup MGA to organizations with 1,000+ employees. It includes documents, policies, accountings, everything all in one. A end-to-end solution for the MGA space. Expert Insured: https://www.expertinsure...

I chat with MJ Saffer, Founder & Owner at EthosVAS, they help insurance agencies scale without losing margins or risk compliance issues through highly specialized Virtual Assistants. They build custom back-office solutions using trained, compliant virtual staff supported by proven processes. All with a strong focus on compliance. MJ Saffer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mj-saffer/ EthosVAS: http...

I chat with Jon Dewald, CEO at HelixIntel, they are building the predict and prevent engine for equipment breakdown and P&C. Their platform connects insurance companies directly with the maintenance departments of the large commercial property risks they insure in a way that helps prevent losses before they happen. It can lower preventable losses by up to 70%. Jon Dewald: https://www.linkedin....

Tony chats with Yo Sub Kwon, Co-Founder & CEO at Voltaire, a technology provider that automates the writing of claims correspondence. They help make the fastest way to close the claim the highest quality one. It generates accurate and compliant letters, in as little as 30 seconds. Yo Sub Kwon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jchysk/ Voltaire: https://voltaire.claims/

I chat with Vinod Kumar, Head of Product Marketing Agentic Location Intelligence at TomTom. They have evolved from a navigation company to a B2B company offering location technology that can be invaluable for auto insurance. A fascinating conversation!

I chat with Bobbie Shrivastav, Co-Founder & CEO at Solvrays, they allow back office operations unifying data, documents, and systems so that when work comes in it makes it easy to understand, decision, and complete. All on top of the systems you already use, without having to rip and replace. Bobbie Shrinivas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbieshrivastav/ Solvrays: https://www.solvrays.com/

I chat with Raj Utraja, Founder & CEO at Persisto.ai, they are a Commercial Underwriting platform that empowers you with AI Agents that work as your Junior Commercial Underwriters. They can analyze the files like a human would, assess the risk, rate, and send it back to the broker. A very interesting conversation! Raj Utraja: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajnishutraja/ Persisto.ai: https://pers...

Steve Johnson, Founder & Chief Product Officer at Insured.io and author of the Insurance UX Survival Guide. They are a complete customer experience platform, providing all of the channels that an insured might use to interact with an insurance company, as a bolt-on solution to any carrier management system. It allows you to easily deploy a policyholder portal, inbound and outbound text messagi...

Tony chats with Dylan DiMarchi, Co-Founder & CEO at Eventual, they are the NY based insurtech behind PremiumLock, they provide a 3-year price guarantee for US admitted homeowners insurance policies. Since 2021 the price of home insurance dramatically accelerated and it's becoming a huge deal, PremiumLock helps homeowners have predictability. Dylan DiMarchi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dyl...

Tony chats with Kat Gordienko, Co-Founder & CEO at Builty, a building permits intelligence platform that translates permits into usable data and risk signals. This is a whole new way to underwrite property and it's very interesting! Kat Gordienko: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katgord/ Builty: https://www.builtydata.com/