Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Charlie Sidoti, Executive Director at InnSure, they are a non-profit innovation hub focused on innovation in insurance related to climate change. They look at it through the lens of what does the world need from the insurance industry to help with climate change, and is also good business for the insurance industry. How can insurance help accelerate the transition to a low-carbon e...

Tony chats with Cyrus Karai, CEO at CoverForce, they help strengthen agencies by offering the best infrastructure to connect commercial P&C agencies and carriers. The help carriers digitize their access points to agents, brokers, banks, etc. They offer a unified API that lets you access several of the leading P&C commercial lines carriers. Cyrus Karai: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyrus-kar...

Tony chats with Marlena Sarunac and Lubna Hameed, Co-Founders at The Company Advice. (For High Ds: actual content starts at 4:10.) They provide design leadership and execution to startups from the very beginning by bringing them in a fractional capacity. They have extensive experience in insurtech, healthtech, fintech, and more. Marketing and design is often deprioritized in the early days and the...

Tony chats with Sivan Iram, Founder and CEO at Flow, they are a next-generation wholesale broker specializing in financial lines providing wholesale services that are needing help in those lines of business. A different approach - specialized in middle and small commercial, and already featuring 50 carriers. Sivan Iram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivaniram/ Flow: https://www.flowspecialty.com/ Vi...

Tony chats with Woody Klemmer, Head of Growth at ForMotiv. They use behavioral data science, a combination of behavioral analytics and real-time data science to help Life and P&C carriers to analyze how people fill out their digital applications. They call this digital body language, and it allows them to identify risk, non-disclosure, premium leakage, and more! Woody Klemmer: https://www.link...

We catch up with Joseph Zaarour, Founder at ISolvRisk. Joseph is on a mission to solve insurance and risk management's talent problem with incredibly innovative solutions. ISolvRisk is pivoting to a really cool new idea we'd love to come to fruition because it's brilliant! Joseph Zaarour: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-zaarour-8769a6177/ ISolvRisk: https://www.isolvrisk.com/ Vid...

I chat with Dave Olchowka, Founder and CEO at Prizm Insurance, the first and only tech-enabled insurance brokerage that catered to the high-net worth personal lines space. Dave Olchowka: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-olchowka-2523ab13b/ Prizm Insurance: https://www.prizminsurance.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/WFCnzUtc3QM

Tony chats with Miguel Edwards, Founder and Principal Consultant at FiveM Consulting. Miguel is a former Carrier CIO at two different carriers and has a strong strategy background on cloud migration and data. His new consulting firm is focused on bringing his big carrier experience to the small carrier space ($100M to $500M in premium). His team of six all come from industry and provide a more per...

Tony chats with Tinsley English, Author of "Grit, Growth, and Gumption for Women". We talk about her amazing book and dig so deep into it that we literally run out of time! If you are a woman wanting to grow into leadership or who just recently got her first big promotion this is the manual you've been waiting for! Tinsley English: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinsleyenglish/ Griw, G...

Tony chats with Ann Boger, CEO at Bramble and Bird Consulting, a new consulting firm in the intersection of tech, insurance, healthcare, and finance. They help regulated industries solve thorny problems. They are a group of seasoned insurance and finance professionals who love to build things. They've come together to help startups, carriers, and change makers build what they're trying t...

Tony chats with Alex Branning, Founder of Agent CRM, a marketing and sales platform specifically built for insurance agencies to do all of marketing under one platform with a strong focus on compliance. Alex Branning: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbranning/ Agent CRM: https://www.agent-crm.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/wFWGNp4gE7s

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Tony chats with Martha Dreilling, Co-Founder and COO at Reserv, a digitally native TPA that is rebuilding the model using best-in-class technology to aid the adjusters and marrying that with the very best adjusting talent to deliver the very best service. Martha Dreilling: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martha-dreiling-a894679/ Reserv: https://www.reserv.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/S7jj-CDuq...

Tony chats with Tiana Showe, COO & Co-Founder at meshVI, they are a transportation insurance administration platform. They take all the manual processes that exist in transportation insurance: vehicle schedules, driver schedules, and much more in a single platform that's accessible by insureds, agents, wholesalers, brokers, carriers, adjusters, lienholders, certificate holders, etc. This...

Tony chats with Valkyrie Holmes Co-Founder and CEO at Faura, they help homeowners understand how likely their home is to survive a natural disaster after a 10 minute app-based assessment. A dollar of mitigation can prevent $4 to $7 in avoided future losses. Valkyrie Holmes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valkyrieholmes/ Faura: https://faura.us/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/AitL7NTltsQ

Tony chats with Chantal Roberts, long-time insurance professional, fellow CPCU, and author of the new book "Once Upon a Claim". A wonderful, uplifting conversation you should not miss! Chantal Roberts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chantal-roberts-cmrconsulting/ Once Upon a Claim: https://amzn.to/3wi1b7n Video Version: https://youtu.be/Tnst7XAEA58

Tony chats with Gage Caligaris, Founder and CEO at Ledgebrook, a tech-enabled E&S MGA. Using data and insurance expertise to improve E&S. Taking the best of modern technology and the best of insurance people and combining that into a compelling offering for the brokers that set you up with faster and more consistent quotes. Gage Caligaris: https://youtu.be/HQ_KDqhwD1o Ledgebrook: https://w...

Tony chats with Vivek Kaliraman, Founder at Perci, they are an all-in-one disaster preparedness solution to help consumers protect their family and their home. It can also be offered as an employee benefit. Almost two thirds of people are not prepared for disasters! Vivek Kaliraman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-kaliraman/ Perci: https://perci.us/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/YUdANakV6g4

Tony chats with Manish Khetan, Co-Founder and President of Xceedance. They are basically an insurance company without capital and distribution! How does that work!?!?! They specialize in helping insurtech and insurance organizations, especially in P&C Large Commercial space. Once an insurance company has secured capital and has a distribution network, Xceedance can manage the entire rest of th...

Tony chats with Andrew Suesserman, Chief Revenue Officer at Affinity Advisors, a digital insurance platform, where retail brokers, wholesaler brokers, and associations who work with a lot of small and middle market businesses can use the platform to very quickly rate, quote and bind various types of insurance including: Cyber, D&O, EPLI, and other miscellaneous coverages. Andrew Suesserman: ht...

Tony chats with Cory Schmidt, CTO & Co-Founder at AgencyBloc, an agency management system for Life and Health agencies. Started in 2008 out of the need for an AMS for Life and Health MGAs with a heavy focus on wholesaling. It has now grown into an all-encompassing wholesale and retail AMS. Cory Schmidt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coryschmidt/ AgencyBloc: https://www.agencybloc.com/ Video Vers...

Tony chats with Vamsi Danturti about his career from India to the US, from Deloitte to Capgemini to SalesForce, and more. Great conversation about the IT side of insurance to the business side. Lots of great advice on this episode! Vamsi Danturti: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vamsidanturti/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/iqxJGingPhQ

Tony has a career conversation with long-time insurance leader Kerry Macca. Kerry started in underwriting back in the manual coverage days. After 10+ years in underwriting, she transitioned to serve the industry at several vendors including LexisNexis, Microsoft, and CoreLogic. Lots of lessons in a fascinating insurance career. Kerry Macca: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrymacca/ Video Version: ht...

Tony chats with Tanya Coburn, VP of Marketing and Communications at Trufla about the upcoming Amplify Broker TechFest 2024 in Calgary, the biggest insurtech conference in Canada! 🇨🇦 🍁 We're giving away an all-access pass to the conference to anyone who comments below before end-of-day April 16th. Tanya Coburn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyacoburn/ Amplify Broker TechFest: https://www.truf...

Tony chats with Raghav Tanna, Co-Founder and CEO at Tarmika. This is Raghav's first podcast appearance since the Applied acquisition. Tarmika is a small commercial rating platform designed to be an agency-facing tool that gets you multiple quotes from multiple carriers. Built over the course of five years before being acquired by Applied. Tarmika's goal is to save agency Account Managers...