Full Episodes | Insurtech Leadership Podcast

We're proud to introduce our friends David Gritz at InsurTechNY and Bryan Falchuck at Insurance Evolution Partners . The two are partnering with  Conning  Research &  CB Insights  to gather 200+ Insurtech leaders insights about their insurance carrier partners and publish the results in a ranking of the best carriers for collaboration- Complete the survey here:  https://lnkd.in/geHjP2UJ David is t...

Ty Sagalow is recognized as one of his generation's most influential insurance professionals, developing an unprecedented number of new products for the world’s largest insurance companies.  Before co-founding Assurely , Ty was a founding member of Lemonade and served as its founding Chief Insurance Officer. Ty spent 25 years at AIG and was the Chief Innovation Officer for Zurich following that ex...

Andrew Wynn , Co-Founder Ascend , the first modern insurance payments platform that provides automated all-in-one financing, collections, and payables. Ascend is funded by heavyweight investors FirstRound , FirstMark , Susa Ventures , South Park Commons and Box Group . Andrew and co-founder Praveen Chekuri  previously built Sheltr . The company became the first acquisition made by insurtech unicor...

Meet Sears Merritt , Head Technology & Data, MA Mutual Investments. Sears has been recognized as one of the life insurance industry’s top 25 innovators under 40 by LIMRA and an academic-industry partner by the American Statistical Association. He is a member of the board at Barings, an advisor to Antara Health and member of the Innovation Committee for the American Council of Life Insurers. Sears...

Matt Ranauro is the Founder and CEO of Benefix .  Matt's podcast insights focus on creating broker and agency trust in data. He says you have to trust the machine, and this behavioral change takes time. Matt's career has spanned over 15 years as a designer, technologist, and entrepreneur. In 2016 Matt started Benefix as a side project when he found the process of finding benefits for his company a...

Gloria Guntiñas Vanzo , CEO at two insurtech companies  MLTPLY , and  Pouch  - it's the first time we've featured a double-CEO on the pod!    Pouch went to market earlier this year in automotive insurance, and MLTPLY came out of an additional opportunity discovered during the launch of Pouch. Gloria says that in insurance, 80% of the problem tends to be well-known, but 20% tends to be really hard...

Rahim Rajpar , CMO at Plumlife  has quickly has been adopted by 300 agents since launching just this summer, having integrated into SwissRe's Magnum from the outset due to the ideal fit of their instant underwriting process. 2/3 of agents' clients are completing their process via a mobile phone, so Plumlife is creating a true digital-sales experience rather than digitizing the old paper one. Insur...

Bill Keogh COO at Eos Venture Partners a global strategic VC Fund focused on #insurtech. Bill comes from industry, having spent 15 years in underwriting and saw the early iterations of catastrophe risk modeling from the 1990s on.  The big idea behind Eos is they seek to have a positive impact on the lives of half a billion people by closing the protection gap, making insurance better, more accessi...

Alex Frommeyer  Co-Founder & CEO at Beam Dental is a super-inspiring founder who is at the head of the pack in digital dental insurance. Three value-added propositions that set digital insurance fundamentally apart: 🥇1. Easy: The whole digital infrastructure and user experience including customers and brokers is just simple to use, 🥈2. Smart: Underwriting blending traditional actuarial concepts...

Brian Kaas  is President at CMFG Ventures  the M&A and corporate venture capital fund for Cuna Mutual , and is Board Member at multiple #insurtechs. Brian is leveraging his insurance law background to lead the deals that will help drive the industry forward. ✅Brian sees insurtech as still 5 to 7 years behind where fintech is today, with more early-stage entrants than maturing companies to scale...

Guy Benjamin is working on digital health, formerly having trained in the Israeli Air Force, Yale and McKinsey. His  Insurights is exploring the potential for digital transformation in the healthcare space. 20 years ago you'd go to a bank, later on you'd call a call center, and now you use an app. Health insurance is still at step 1 of transformation with call centers but has not yet truly digitiz...

Ben Grosser is Chief Insurance Officer at Telivy having elegantly mastered the jump from insurance to the technology and insurtech side to create new growth for the industry, ✅APIs allow us to now vertically integrate the insurance supply chain using one digital process from broker to product and servicing ✅Building APIs on both the insurtech and insurer side is accelerating the pace of learning...

Until 2015 Andrew Rear worked in all facets of insurance in a 30-year career and turned that into an Insurtech second-half, convincing the board of MunichRe to partner and invest in Insurtechs. From 2021 'Andy' has been chairing a few Insurtechs including Buckle , and working with a private equity fund on its investment strategy.  ✅His approach to partnering with MGA-insurtechs has always been de...

Heather Wilson was the first Chief Data Officer at AIG and Chief Analytics and AI Officer at LBrands before taking the role as CEO of Clara Analytics .  ✅Clara helps deliver 10x-40x savings back on worker's compensation claims processing using AI and API integrations. ✅Clara's interface helps understand the complexity and nuance of claims including medical records, allowing the adjuster to recal...

Rob Rowello  works with CXOs to use cloud to innovate at Oracle today, and was previously Cognizant's VP of Digital Transformation.   Insights in today's episode include: ✅How to get more intimate relationships with customers beyond using mass advertising to establish your brand ✅How insurers are using AI/ML models to better price risk into their products   ✅New customer acquisition via mining...

Meet Allen Kamrava Founder and CEO at Eusoh , community-based veterinary care. Allen is a physician, surgeon and avid businessperson.  ✅ Insurance is one of the most successful global crowdfunds, however the financial reimbursements incentivize various stakeholders to act in certain ways, not always for the benefit of the others. ✅ Any predictions about your startup business will prove wrong so...

Richard Alvarez leads the user experience practice at Saggezza , and says UX is not always about heuristics or how people work with computers.  ✅When it comes to user interactions, not being an insurance expert can be a huge asset to dig deeper and understand why customers do what they do and leads to building a better product. ✅The essence of user experience is about helping make the experience...

Itai Ben-Zaken , CEO Honeycomb  - enabling real-time rating for small commercial real estate.  Itai started his career at Intel as a software engineer and did his MBA at Wharton, gained experience in an insurance company, then started a digital marketing company in social media campaigns.  Now he's back to innovate insurance using big data and AI. A few highlights from today's pod: ✅ The sweet sp...

Richard De Sousa is Deputy Head for Growth & Development at SCOR, its US new business and client-facing unit. His entrepreneurial experience has helped enormously in particular building partnerships with smaller, more nimble companies. SCOR as a major reinsurer has been super active in working with and acquiring companies in Life and P&C. He talks about the advantages of working at a reinsurer, se...

Doug Roth , MD & at Connecticut Innovations is one of the top most active east-coast investors, with CI having closed more than 100 direct equity investments over the past 12 months including insurtechs. They focus on producing and re-investing financial returns on investment as an evergreen fund into new startups on a continual basis. Investments include direct Insurtech's like Aureus Analytics a...

Doug Ver Mulm , CEO Stable Insurance built ride-share apps operations, onboarding drivers, maintenance. Uber/Lyft have opened their databases to driver scores, trip and earnings data and started using it for credit modeling and rentals. While scaling that for Mercer, outside investors realized taking this into an insurance product would make more sense and Doug made the jump to co-founder. Ridesha...

Nestor worked in investment banking, focused on emerging markets and lower-income 'base of the pyramid'. He witnessed many new sustainability business models, coupled with his desire to get closer to the customer. He took his own family's struggle getting auto insurance gave him a personal mission and he created Sigo-Seguros  as an inclusive insurance provider focused on affordability, accessibili...

Paul Tyler is Chief Marketing Officer for Nassau Re , a 5-year old company driving innovation and new partners in the heart of the Insurance capital Hartford. ReImagine! was designed to bring insurtech to Hartford and create new jobs. Nassau is focused on re-shaping retirement advice and services. They will soon be releasing a map of the 100-companies driving innovation and change in the space. Pa...

Today's episode features Blake Hill  from the executive team at  Dacadoo , which is a Series C insurtech located in Waterloo which is like a combination of Silicon Valley + the Hartford of the north. Blake formerly worked in strategy at Manulife and is an actuary by trade. He "saw the light" on what insurance could become, and joined Dacadoo to help create that shift. Dacadoo helps change the insu...

Michael Davis is the CEO at eGGHEAD Ai based on Hartford, improves data quality to enhance management decisions, create new insights and ultimately reduce risk. Michael says finding an issue early on can be worth 100-times the value by avoiding errors. However, people do not like to work with data, citing a Gartner study where 30% of workers would rather call out sick than work with data. This lea...