Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Will Demitro, President at Recon Risk. Will had a successful Underwriter and then Carrier Sales Manager career, before deciding to bet on himself and open an independent agency. We chat about his career and why he left the carrier world to start an agency. Will Demitro: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamd31/details/experience/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/Mt86dxvDDts

Tony chats with Ted Vandenberg about his 35 year insurance career integrating insurance and what we now call Analytics. Ted Vandenberg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardvandenberg/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/cRQzkTlcVjk

Tony chats with Amrish Singh, Co-Founder and CEO at Liberate, they create customer facing AI workers for insurance agencies and carriers. They AI can answer phone calls, emails, SMS, and a lot of the other activities that don't require a license. A fascinating conversation you don't want to miss! Amrish Singh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amrishsingh/ Liberate: https://www.liberateinc.com...

Tony chats with Alex Rodov, Founder at Emtech Group, a widely recognized pioneer in software QA testing. We talk about why software QA testing is now a huge deal in the era of developers using AI to create code, and how Emtech can help. Alex Rodov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexrodov/ Emtech: https://emtechgroup.com/

For insurance agents and brokers, being a trusted advisor is the holy grail of professionalism. When your clients rely on you for advice, you are creating value for them beyond the insurance policy. Becoming a trusted advisor means that you are bringing wisdom and advice, and that it is thoughtful, precise, and predominantly accurate. Over time, your credibility goes up, and credibility is a major...

Tony chats with Evgeny Alexandrov, Founder and CEO at Pilotbird, a lifestyle analytics company that analyzes social data points focused on helping evaluate claims for the US market. A fascinating episode you shouldn't miss! Evegny Alexandrov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evgeny-aleksandrov/ Pilotbird: https://www.pilotbird.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/pit2BOSFzG8

Tony chats with Diane Delaney, Executive Director at PRMA, the Private Risk Management Association, the non-profit association built to bring together the high net worth insurance community. This is a fast growing and fascinating area of insurance and the PRMA serves it in many ways from education, to conferences, to advocacy, and more. A great episode! Diane Delaney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/d...

Tony chats with Yandy Plasencia, CEO & Founder at DataHaven. This is an update episode, Yandy was on the show in Ep. 675. DataHaven is a core infrastructure company solving the foundational data problem. Their core focus is on making sure there are no data silo and data is available where it is needed to make the best decisions. This episode is about how the company has grown over this last ye...

Tony chats with Asaf Lifshitz, Co-Founder & CEO and Upasana Unni, COO at Sayata, an AI enabled markeplace for small commercial insurance that started in Cyber and then expanded. They recently got acquired and learned a LOT through that process, which is what the big focus of this conversation is about. Asaf Lifshitz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asaflifshitz/ Upasana Unni: https://www.linkedin....

Tony chats with John Stammen, CEO at Convr, they are an underwriting workbench for Commercial P&C insurers, brokers, and MGAs of all sizes. John Stammen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnstammen/ Convr: https://convr.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/yOR3hbvBRNY This episode of Profiles in Risk is sponsored by Zywave. Whether an insurer, agent, or service provider, the insurance industry is...

Tony chats with Debbie Brackeen, EVP Chief Innovation Officer & Corp. Development Officer at CSAA about their approach to innovation, how a 100 year old insurance company can truly innovate, and more. A very interesting conversation you shouldn't miss! Debbie Brackeen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debra-brackeen/ CSAA: https://csaa-insurance.aaa.com Video Version: https://youtu.be/jTN4uFfz...

Tony chats with Rose Hancock, VP of Product Management at Zywave, a leading software provider helping insurance agents, brokers, carriers, and service providers, really provide that service multiplier. From product creation, to distribution, to client services, they can help in every step of the insurance distribution process. Rose Hancock: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rose-hancock/ Zywave: https:/...

Tony chats with Zac Townsend, CEO at Meanwhile, the first and only life insurance company denominated in Bitcoin. Built in Bermuda with its entire balance sheet denominated in Bitcoin, and with a worldwide monopoly on Bitcoin life insurance, this is one fascinating conversation you should not miss! Zachary Townsend: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zactownsend/ Meanwhile: https://meanwhile.bm/ Video Ve...

Tony chats with Charles Johnson, Head of Product Growth at Insuraviews, they provide strategic insights through advanced analytics of insurance rate filings. They take all the rate fillings through a robust ingestion process and layer on analytics and AI to give you powerful insights. This is a game changer, especially for smaller carriers that don't have a large competitive intelligence team...

Tony chats with Andrew Kelly about PLUS, the Professional Liability Underwriting Society. Tony is obsessed with insurance education but has spent his entire career on the P&C side. This is a great introduction to the world of continuing education on the Professional Liability side and why you should dive in! We talk RPLU, CPLP, Exec PLP, and more. Andrew Kelly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andr...

Tony chats with award winning innovator Meg Duty, SVP at Puritan Life and Canvas Annuity. Puritan Life is a life carrier started in the 1950s which they have now turned into an all-cloud shop. They built Canvas Annuity, the first all digital annuity platform. An incredible story of true innovation, opening up a product to a whole new market, and all without alienating your existing distribution ch...

Tony chats with Chak Kolli, PhD, CTO at Magile Software. Insurance companies are struggling to understand the risks of AI and Magile Software is here to help them understand and manage that risk better. A fascinating conversation you cannot miss! Chak Kolli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chak-kolli/ Magile Software: https://www.linkedin.com/company/magile-software/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/XT...

Tony chats with Tim Lovett, Head of Enterprise Division at Blitz, they are a new fully digital API-enabled commercial lines E&S carrier that can service the entire distribution ecosystem from direct, to retailers, to wholesalers. Tim Lovett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timlovett/ Blitz: https://www.blitzinsurance.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/5ttJvASdaJ0

Tony chats with Mel Faxon, Co-Founder & COO at Hey Mirza, they are basically Turbotax for government benefits. Her Mirza is focused on helping lower income people connect with the variety of programs they might qualify for, from their home, in their native language. Mel Faxon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-faxon/ Hey Mirza: https://heymirza.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/dg3rZFa-cW...

Tony chats with Rich Benci, CEO at Omega Benefits, they help HR teams communicate benefit information to their employees, a task more complicated than I ever expected. Rich Benci: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richbenci/ Omega Benefits: https://omegabenefits.net/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/iFskLfY1Z0g

Tony chats with Nakita Devlin, CEO & Founder at Ric, the first parametric catastrophe product focused on the employee benefit market! Their parametric managing general agent will host micro parametric products with the first one being a parametric flood product for rain across the US. The plan is for this to be the first of many climate parametric products offered as an employee benefit. A ver...

Tony chats with Jake Tamarkin - Co-Founder & President at Everyday Life Insurance, they are building the premiere life insurance platform for everyday people. They are an independent life insurance agency that caters to people that want to do business online. They use machine learning and other tools to help people find the best fitting Life product for them. Jake Tamarkin: https://www.linkedi...

Tony chats with Gregg Golson about his career in claims, his involvement in CPCU, advice for the next generation, and his consulting endeavors. Gregg Golson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregggolsoncpcu/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/ieaJ7VAAbQ8

Tony chats with Liam Harris, Co-Founder and CEO at ThreadWise, they are a commercial co-pilot for commercial insurance communications starting with email. They believe that while commercial brokering is complex, the tools shouldn't be. Their goal is to clean the data before it gets dirty and allow brokers to do the work they're licensed to do. Their biggest focus to start with is the sub...

Tony chats with Love Redin, Co-Founder and CEO at Vantel, they build AI tools for middle market commercial insurance producers to help them process documents, find coverage gaps, compare quotes, review contracts, and more. Love Redin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/love-redin/ Vantel: https://vantel.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/V9lqVj8r9uY