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Rafael Broshi is Co-Founder and CEO of Notch, an MGA offering new insurance products for individuals and micro businesses.  Notch provides insurance and security solutions for digital assets, starting with a business' digital storefront - their social media account. Medium- and large-sized businesses have access to cyber insurance for damages created via email, social media, direct messengers etc....

Daniel Keough is the Chairman & CEO of Holmes Murphy & Associates, one of the nation’s largest independent insurance agencies. Dan also serves as co-CEO of BrokerTech Ventures, the first broker-led convening platform focused on delivering innovation to the insurance broker industry, or #brokertech.  Dan talks about how BrokerTech Ventures supports the technological and business development of #bro...

Danny Amir is CEO of BetterTogether, a direct-to-consumer personal wellness and weight loss app that is bringing simple and effective well-being and weight loss products to millions of people.  BetterTogether is answering to the main trends in the insurance in industry in personal health and bringing a new benefit into their offering. Reinsurers are moving into preventative activities, life and he...

Nyasha Gutsa is CEO and co-founder of Billy , which digitizes and connects the process by which construction contractors work with insurance brokers. Billy is redefining construction insurance technology, managing insurers, certificates of insurance and requirements, working with brokers to retain and engage customers. This can mean commercial general liability, workers compensation, auto and exce...

Itay Bengay is CEO at Sensa, the first proactive auto insurance company, focused on help - not just compensation. Sensa provides lifesaving services 24/7. Itay believes people should not be left alone during a car accident. In the moments after a car accident, people want to deny and move beyond it whereas the insurance need is to remember every detail of that incident to avoid any unnecessary cla...

Dan Woods is the founder and CEO of Socotra, the first modern, cloud-based platform for technology-driven insurers. Socotra has its own app marketplace and APIs to connect software to insurance businesses, providing open access and clean documentation to get started. Socotra provides solutions that are off-the-shelf, true cloud and fully documented. With computer science being the most popular deg...

Steve is cofounder and Chief Climate Officer for The Demex Group, providing actionable risk management solutions at the hyper-local level for non-catastrophic but extreme weather events. Demex offers solutions for insurers, reinsurers, and other companies with exposure to extreme weather to price risk and provide a valuation basis for weather and climate-related information. What is the impact of...

Tom Beauregard is the Founder and CEO of HCG Secure, a product and solution builder transforming the aging at-home experience. HSG produces alternatives to long-term care solutions for middle income families who retire, do not have long-term care and will not qualify for Medicare. Many people in this category may have adequate income but do not understand that Medicare does not cover their long-te...

Bryan Davis serves as Executive Vice President, HUB International Corporate as the leader of its VIU online broker. HUB is a top 5 global brokerage and largest personal lines brokerage, and Bryan leads VIU, a full-stack 21st century digital brokerage. VIU executes omni-channel (digital + call center + field) strategies impacting product development, consumer segmentation, digital marketing, and th...

Isaac Hicks, CEO Slipbot, which extracts nuanced information from Facultative and Treaty Slips of all kinds in the Reinsurance space using a novel approach to natural language processing. Issac is an advanced Software Integrations Expert and AI practitioner that combines iPaaS solutions, Robotic Process Automation, and Artificial intelligence to create innovative, state-of-the-art business solutio...

Les Schlesinger is CEO at ClaimRide. Claim Ride is the leading facilitator of ride share/hailing service providers (Uber, Lyft, YellowCab) for policy holders receiving transportation (rental reimbursement) benefits under their automobile insurance coverage. The solution provides access to ride share services that enhance and or replace a typical rental car benefit received from an insurance compan...

Sudhama Gopalan is founder and CEO of AveriSana Inc., an insurtech startup that uses data science and machine learning to make customer acquisition in life and health insurance more cost-efficient and productive.   Matching customers to products used to be about understanding intent and then looking at insurability (health and medical records) later on in the sales funnel. Technology now enables i...

Eyhab Aejaz is CEO at Breach, developing cyber insurance solutions for the growing $2T+ cryptocurrency market. Breach has built a proprietary policy issuance and administration platform and an industry-first solution to insure clients of popular cryptocurrency custodians and exchanges. Eyhab says crypto is built on trust and transparency, yet decentralized markets the product is based on those sam...

Upasana Unni is the Chief Commercial Officer of Sayata, a marketplace where wholesale brokers can find small business insurance from multiple carriers in just a few minutes. Upasana oversees market partnerships and carrier relationships and says insurance remains a relationships business, with people on the phone. Insurance remains a very relationship-driven place, needing well-respected voices ma...

Dr. Holger Bartel is CEO and founder of RealRate. Working at insurers, Holger saw first-hand how the company ratings process is biased and filled with conflicts of interest. RealRate fills a niche of automating company ratings. Instead of analysts conducting personal interviews and spending half-year on a rating, RealRate automates and scales ratings using publicly available data.  RealRate uses h...

Mark Breading, Partner at Strategy Meets Action is known for his insights on the future of the insurance industry and innovative uses of technology. Mark says expertise and relationships are at the heart of every business, whether origination or distribution, and digital-only models will not be taking over for a long time. His belief is everyone in the industry needs to develop more relationship s...

Frank Giaoui is President of Optimalex, a legal predictive analytics insurtech. Wait...What are legal predictive analytics, exactly? Insurance companies today apply their own benchmarks to settling legal cases, and may share medical claims but typically do not have access to external benchmarks.  Optimalex adds science to the historical art of claims adjustment. The head of legal claims analysis a...

Spyridon Antonopoulos is Director of Solutions Architecture at Solidus Labs, providing trade surveillance, transaction monitoring, and threat intelligence to corporates. In this episode, Spiro discusses how the insurance life cycle can begin to cover crypto assets, for example using photo and video evidence as part of the risk assessment and claims process.  Spiro has experience in the Life, Annui...

Joshua Behar is CEO of Mobile2CRM, which solves an organizational blind spot by capturing business communications (Voice, Text, WhatsApp) conducted via cellular devices without violating users' privacy. -The core problem Mobile2CRM solves is customer-facing employees' usage of mobile phones to do business, whether managing customer data in their own personal excel rather than the CRM, or the commo...

At the GIA, Dan Israel is responsible for the overall strategy and operations of the organization - emphasizing the growth, development, and success of the programs, as well as ongoing support of all of the accelerator’s portfolio companies. His goal is to bring together strategic and forward-thinking investors with innovative founders who can enhance both groups’ opportunities for growth and the...

Jon R. Sabes is the founder, chief executive officer and chairman of FOXO Technologies Inc.  a technology startup using the science of AI and epigenetics to reinvent the life insurance industry. Insights in this episode: - How longevity science is becoming core to the life insurance industry, better predicting mortality risk - How to create and use an epigenetic clock of how people are biologicall...

Jason Gross is Vice President & Head of Platform for ManchesterStory an early-stage InsurTech venture capital in Des Moines Iowa. Key insights in today's episode: ✅Leaders often assume employees are resistant to change, but as it turns out the most experienced employees are the most excited about change because they have felt the 'pain points' for the longest time. ✅ManchesterStory is 6-years ol...

Tomas Vykruta is CEO at EvolutionIQ, a claims guidance AI platform for Group & Individual Disability, Workers Compensation and Casualty & Liability that has processed millions of bodily injury claims. Customers include Sunlife Financial, Reliance Standard, Argo, Matrix and Fullscope RMS. Claims officers are dealing with up to 70 injured employment cases a day. EvolutionIQ acts as an expert medical...

Delanea Davis is the co-founder and CEO of Cloud9 Online, a Hartford-based medical-grade meditation tech company. Delanea is an accomplished Senior Executive and Thought Leader, with 25 years of success in P&C market research and the health & wellness industries. The practical application of Cloud9's white-label B2B solution is to get injured workers back to work on-time and healthy, which improve...

Anthony Habayeb is founding CEO of Monitaur , an AI governance and ML assurance company. ✅ Monitaur guides enterprises to build and deploy responsible AI and machine learning models that business leaders, regulators and consumers can trust. ✅ Large enterprises don't have good oversight and controls to have enough confidence in AI systems, Monitaur delivers software for internal risk teams to bui...