Full Episodes | Insurtech Leadership Podcast

Proud welcome to Nick Gerhart , Chief Innovation Officer at Homesteaders Life , former Iowa Insurance Commissioner, Board member and investor at several successful insurtechs including Carpedata and Sureify . Top Trends & Predictions in today's episode: 1. 7 of the Top 10 carriers today will still be there in a decade. However there will be a strong series of acquisitions from the companies with a...

Dave Bruno  founder Red Planet Ventures and former UBS Head Global Wealth Management Innovation.   He talks with Josh about having launched innovation at UBS, the world's largest private wealth manager, by exiting the "immune system" and unlocking doors to the outside market and innovators. Dave sees deep parallels to today's younger insurtech industry, how transforming a 200-year old industry and...

Meet Bobby Touran , started Pathpoint four years ago and is software talent that has shifted to commercial insurance (excess & surplus lines). Pathpoint is a digital-wholesale brokerage for retail agents to receive bindable quotes instantly.  Bobby says not having an insurance background is an advantage. He was able to very quickly pull together a sounding board of industry insiders who can suppla...

Tim Christ VP of Growth at Claimatic, which was Insurtech before that was a word. IAS Claims created algorithms looking at large pools of claims to triage and assign the right adjusters based on location, experience, authorizations, schedules. The process went from days down to a few hours, carriers needed access to that logic, and Claimatic was born.  Claimatic connects the Policyholder, Adjuster...

Today Alan Walters of Conning shares research about trends in Insurtech in 2021. Continued Impact in Distribution - independent agents and brokers can modernize, digital agency making it easier to buy and service policies, Getting the Carrier C-suite feedback on working with insurtech, "This is a ten-year initiative for us, we need to cut the expense ratio,"  Reviewing insurance Value Chains, digg...

Jay DeVivo , Founder at CoFunder  talks to us today passionately about innovation process at insurance carriers and the process of identifying new market needs and a path to market acceptance.   Jay calls innovation "creative destruction". He says many insurers have not yet gone "all in" on the necessary process and commit true innovation to take place, including bringing in new people with new sk...

Meet Cynthia Hardy , CEO and Founder at Pivot Global Partners , and recent author of ' Crossing Meridians '.  Cynthia created a concept of 'Design Agility' in parallel to design thinking, it's a construct to re-orient around the customer and guide work. It gives you a method of discovering what customers need and will pay for. She describes how leaders often over-rely on their known paths, and ins...

Christopher Lowell created The Hartford's Small Business Innovation Lab and was tasked with building out new channels to test whether the organization could launch a new service before bringing it back to the core. The Hartford are leaders in small commercial, true experts at running their core day-to-day business. They went in with a strategy to innovate from a position of strength, knowing they...

Rob Galbraith , author of 'The End of Insurance as We Know It, started at USAA when insurance was still primarily advertised word-of-mouth in the military. His experience with tech startups led to writing the book and found an avid international audience. His nickname actually came from an early podcast appearance!  In today's episode, Rob and Josh check-in on what predictions from the book are co...

McGregor Faulker , Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company has a wide view across the use of AI in insurance.  'Mac' says that for every dollar you're spending on the technology, you're spending more on behavioral change management. Driving lift on business metrics has to be the focus, not just setting technology targets.  To get value out of digital, you need to have the right strategy but also a...

Ron Glozman , Founder Chisel AI studied computer science and business, taught his computer to read and created an algorithm to detect what course content to read in order to pass exams. His app went on to be ranked All Time Top 50 for students by Google. Based on this success, one of the largest insurance brokers reached out about policy checks, errors & omissions. So Ron taught his computer how t...

Proud to welcome Jim Dwane  Chief Revenue Officer at Bolt Solutions Inc. , the world’s largest P&C insurance exchange. Jim is a 30-year veteran of Travelers and AIG who wanted to capitalize and explore the new world of technology applied to his deep insurance experience. Bolt is living proof that not all insurtech is new or run by technologist-millennials. Bolt has been working on transforming ins...

Mike Kalen , CEO Covr Technologies  has brought long-awaited disruption to the process of selling life insurance through advisors. Mike says what used to take years now takes only months: Firms have a mandate to digitize their business, so partnerships have become easier. The Chief Digital / Transformation Officer is in a much better position to act as a champion and get new technologies in place...

Dr. Phil Budden says insurance plays a fundamental role in our society and economy. People forget that insurance itself was a pretty funky innovation and underpinned the industrial revolution. Insurance will have a key role to play as industry switches over to work-from-home and protecting industrial secrets. Companies need insurance to innovate, for example autonomous vehicles. Not every insurtec...

"So a a cinematographer walks into a startup..." It sounds like the start of a joke but Storytelling is a huge part of building an early-stage company. Charles Merritt  Founder at Buddy Insurance worked at Kayak early on, and learned how he could help insurers understand how to make their brands more meaningful to their customers through great storytelling.  Then there's the cockroach thing... As...

Dror Katzav CEO Atidot spent his developmental years during 11 years in Israeli Intelligence. His R&D technology and solutions-focused unit did not wear ranks, it had a culture of seeking answers and let people be more creative in what they do.  Atidot recruits people who are experts in their areas, they let people run initiatives and fail and take on more responsibilities. Dror feels that if all...

Meet Jason Wootton  Founder  Motionauto insurance , an MGA focused on automotive insurance using telematics.  You can learn how Motionauto is using telematics beyond underwriting to create driver profiles and scores, moving away from proxy data into real-time insights on how drivers actually drive. The rating algorithm has to help the consumer understand what they are actually paying for. If their...

Today's episode is about data, and using it to change the way law firms act on DEI. "Inefficiency offends me!" Raj Goyle , CEO Bodhala is passionate about the legal profession not being designed to meet the needs of society. Lawyers are there for the incumbents and the whole system is immature in how legal services are delivered sociologically and economically. The lack of diversity in the law pro...

Jon Kelly , Stanford grad ('95) comes from tech, he was using the pre-Yahoo on a private server in college. He is a serial entrepreneur was a co-founder at Softbank-backed e-Coverage (sold to GM 2001), and founded a second company SureHits (sold in 2008) that is still the back-end of many Insurtech's today.  Jon recalls founding  Kelly Klee  stemmed from his first attempts to get private insurance...

  Barry Flagg , Founder & CEO of  Veralytic created the "Morningstar of life insurance" to calculate the average cost of a life insurance policy, average performance of assets, and star-ratings. Barry describes the parallel between when ERISA created an operating system for investments and today's cutting-edge best interest rules and standards. He believes the conditions for creating innovative ne...

Popular and friendly influencer Matteo Carbone joined us live from New York talking all things IoT and Insurtech. Matteo advises insurers on strategy & innovation, from workshop-developed research deep-dives into IoT data, plenary sessions with insurers in Europe and North America, and visibility into cutting-edge tech trends such as automotive telematics. IoTinsObs is a unique observatory that sh...

Huw Edwards  built his career investing in startups. He realized that knowing how to identify businesses with high potential meant he knew the formula to building his own startup. The team at CyberFortress  has used data from over 400,000 e-commerce companies to create proprietary actuarial tables with defined payouts for common events eg. website downtime. The founding team at CyberFortress belie...

Charlie Sidoti  of Innsure  fosters innovation in insurance and risk management with three tangible services that bring corporates and startups together, with 📱 A vibrant Startups Ecosystem 🎓 Innovation Leadership Academy 🤝Creative Labs putting new skills and teams to work to solve industry problems In this episode, Charlie explains how Innovation groups can succeed by rapid prototyping while e...

"People Make Up Our Clients' Happiness Just as Much as the Product Does".  Meet Dustin Yoder, CEO at Sureify (The Digital Bridge Between Life and Annuity Carriers and their Customers) which took four years to get rolling from an initial B2C to today's B2B2C SaaS model.  Insurance may have felt archaic at the time, but for Dustin who grew up in an insurance household, he was comfortable diving into...

Cory Isaacson had built ad run several major software businesses and filed 5 Patents before he started ReThought Insurance . This time he sat down with a venture partner and wrote down exactly what he wanted to achieve and the market opportunity that would become ReThought. He hand-picked his co-founders based on their common beliefs and deep subject-matter expertise in insurance.  According to Co...