Full Episodes | Insurtech Leadership Podcast

Layla Atya is CEO & Founder of Quantumerge, the only digital representation & warranty (R&W) insurance liability platform to assess, underwrite, and mitigate transactional risk. Quantumerge simplifies and streamlines the R&W insurance process for buyers, sellers, and brokers. Their core product places and underwrites M&A transactional liability policies, acting between brokers...

Sven Gerlach is CTO and co-founder at Turris, an API-first banking platform made for the insurance industry, whose co-founder and CEO Doug ver Mulm was the former CEO of Stable insurance.  Turris is creating a user interface to help tech-enabled agencies automate all of their banking processes, addressing the painful process of account opening at a bank. Examples of basic banking processes that in...

Yuval Shafrir is the CEO & Co-founder of Urbanico ( https://www.linkedin.com/company/urbanico/ ), the urban intelligence platform. In this episode, we explore how Urbanico adds value to the insurance industry by refining risk selection, underwriting guidelines and pricing looking 150 times closer into the personal-related risk of each written policy. By providing insurance carriers with hyper-loca...

Adam Cherubini leads the partnerships and business development efforts of Send, a leading Insurtech productivity platform for managing new business, renewals and endorsements. Send is a rapidly growing InsurTech software company based in London and the United States with global reach. The company has developed an innovative connected workbench that enables re/insurers and MGAs to automate, streaml...

Max McClure is SVP Underwriting & Reinsurance at Steadily, having made the inspired jump from traditional insurers to a high-growth insurtech. Steadily is an insurtech that is bringing fast, affordable landlord insurance to rental property owners.  Steadily focuses exclusively on US-landlords as a niche, which is overlooked by bigger insurers as "product 50/100".  It is a tech-forward solution, wh...

Karn Saroya is CEO of Re, an on-chain, fully collateralized reinsurer. Re is the world’s first blockchain-powered reinsurer is building a decentralized global reinsurance market. The protocol provides investors with access to a massive and uncorrelated asset class: insurance premiums. Re as a protocol will back insurance programs that support the risks that people, businesses and governments take...

David Schapiro is Co-Founder at Planck AI based data analytics for insurance; Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee at ManyPets - a provider of pet insurance in the UK, Sweden and US; a Director at Ahoy! Insurance - a recreational marine insurer; and advisor to Quantee - provider of AI-based dynamic insurance pricing; Herald - Digital infrastructure for commercial insurance; and Sayata - stream...

Bryan Falchuk is Founder of Insurance Evolution Partners, which advises carriers and their partners on how to navigate an evolving industry facing disruption and change. He is also the President & CEO of Insurance industry trade group, PLRB, that is dedicated to helping adjusters to make expert decisions on Property and Liability claims. Bryan spent 20+ years in the insurance industry, including s...

Bob Sargent is President and Co-Founder with me of the Insurtech Association (ITA), a membership-based non-profit organization designed to support and represent all facets of the Insurtech ecosystem. Doug Ver Mulm is Volunteer Executive Director of the ITA. In addition to his work with the ITA, Bob is also the CEO and Co-Founder of eSpecialty Insurance, a digital retail broker specializing in spec...

Tom Wilde is CEO at Indico, an intelligent intake solution automating critical middle office workflows across insurance, banking, real estate and healthcare. 'Intelligent intake' at Indico means the starting point for insurers' most critical workflows including underwriting, claims and policy servicing. The common denominator is data culled from emails or other documents, taken from an unstructure...

Jason Berkowitz is currently CEO and Founder of ArrowUp, providing restaurant safety, compliance & leadership. ArrowUp helps restaurant owners reduce risk, satisfy compliance regulations and develop a culture of safety. ArrowUp's Insurtech platform strengthens the relationship between the insured and insurer by utilizing tools to promote safe habits and capture data for enhanced underwriting, ulti...

Jackson Cromer is President of BondExchange, a leading national surety-focused wholesale insurance agency serving retail insurance agents for over 40 years. Since 2012 the wholesale MGA, based in Charlottesville, NC has been boosting its automation and tech capabilities as well as redesigning its end-to-end customer experience. The company is currently bringing in business financial data and perso...

Blair Baldwin is CEO of Boundless Rider, a specialty MGA focused on product innovation for the motorcycle, power-sports, and e-bike markets. Tribes of riders form an underserved market niche that includes motorcycles, UTVs, snowmobiles and new forms of mobility.  Because these categories represent only 2-3% of an insurer's book, they have not introduced unique new customer personas of riders. Boun...

Yaron Ben-Zvi was the CEO of Haven Technologies, a subsidiary of MassMutual and SaaS company in the life insurance space. Yaron led the company from inception through M&A, building a cloud-based end-to-end technology platform for life insurance. As Founder and CEO of Haven Life, Yaron was also responsible for the strategy, vision, and management of one of the leading direct-to-consumer term life i...

James Felton Keith is Founder of Inclusion Score, an award-winning engineer and economist who was the first Black LGBTQ person to run for US Congress. James is currently an elected member of the New York Democratic Committee and is a frequent keynote at global venues like the United Nations, Future Tech Congress, Data Protection World Forum, and the World Pride Human Rights Forum. As an entreprene...

Josh Minsky is the Founder and CEO of Suretys, replacing the need for a co-signer for first-time auto buyers with little or no credit history (eg. recent immigrants). Retail lenders want to make more loans but are concerned about risk.  Suetys insures these lenders by underwriting the individual, leveraging banking transaction data, binding a policy and enabling the lender to give a favorable inte...

Shameem Shah is Chief Technology Officer at InsurIQ, providing the insurance industry with specialized resources and SaaS products design to create speed and efficiency throughout the policy life cycle.  Shameem tells the story of how InsurIQ came to be, pivoting from business process outsourcing and inventing code to becoming a pure-play software tech provider. Over time the team added submission...

Dylan Slattery is from Dyersville, Iowa - home of the Field of Dreams.  An avid baseball fan, he moved to Denver after coaching baseball for six years while battling two bouts with stage four melanoma in his twenties. Later, while working for a benefits consulting company, Dylan realized that many consultants were looking for a solution that worked for their small groups without all of the customi...

Will Prest is Managing Partner of KWP Consulting LLC (kwpworks.com). KWP accelerates company growth by bringing together strategy development, operational and functional expertise on financial products, technology, insights, brand, sales, marketing, and distribution. Their process helps startups get to market, and large firms start new divisions or find new product/distribution partners. In this e...

Mike Mansell is a Principal at American Family Ventures, a multi-limited partner VC firm focused on the future of insurance. Mike assesses, invests in, and teams with early-stage startups that are poised to write the next chapter of insurance, whether from inside the industry or a relevant adjacency. He talks about the macro investing environment and cooling off after years of hyper-growth, and ho...

Dan Findley is Director of Strategy & Business Development at The Andover Companies, responsible for scaling a Business Development vertical. His key responsibilities of the role include marketing, digital agency experience, existing and emerging agency technology, external industry relationships and representation, market analysis and product innovation, and agency partners success. Dan talks abo...

Mark Scafaro is the CEO and co-founder of Afficiency, an insurtech transforming the end-to-end life insurance buying process and accelerating the time it takes to get applicants approved and covered.  Afficiency delivers life insurance products on an all-encompassing digital platform, available for digital distributors from quote to policy all via API. Its focus is on building life insurance produ...

Amit Batzir is the co-founder and Chief Product and Risk Officer at Spott, an eCommerce insurance platform that helps sellers protect their businesses from unexpected losses. Spott provides Liability Insurance, Suspension Coverage, and Stockout Protection. Its solutions are geography-agnostic, revolving around real-time data and underwriting capabilities. For example Spott launched "Pay as You Sel...

Arik Shpak is Co-Founder and Chief Insurance Officer at Connected insurance, focused on the creation of new insurance markets in the "sharing economy" such as transportation and mobility. These new markets are growing at over 30% per year but lack of traditional actuarial models and experience.  Connected helps any sharing economy business embed insurance into their product offering creation. Thei...

Sri Ramaswamy is founding CEO of Charlee.ai a Silicon Valley technology company specializing in claims and underwriting solutions. Charlee leverages natural language processing to streamline claim workflows and risks to reduce claims expenses, litigation and efficiently manage reserves. Charlee's core product addresses the rising severity of claims when attorneys get involved, which has grown by m...