Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Jim Schubert, CEO at Southern States Insurance and Headmaster at Agents Growth Academy. Jim runs a second-generation family agency in Georgia which is very unique in the way they hire and retain their people. My team has recruited for SSI for about 18 months so I've personally seen how well it works and that's why I invited him on the show. He also runs the Agents Growth...

Tony chats with Richard Look and Marcus Cudd of Insurance Media Exchange IMX. A great discussion about marketing in the insurance world. Richard Look: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rlook/ Marcus Cudd: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcuscudd/ Insurance Media Exchange: https://insurancemediaexchange.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/okYMTqkL3k4

Tony chats with Josh Levine, Founder & CEO at Cake & Arrow. They are an experienced design and product innovation firm that works exclusively with the insurance industry. They partner with carriers, distributors, and service providers to leverage human-centered design and strategy throughout all stages of the product life-cycle. A great conversation about the importance of design! Josh Lev...

Tony chats with Vishal Rohra, CEO at Kay. AI. They are on a mission to save thousands of hours from agency-side insurance professionals by building AI Coworkers that work with your people helping you grow your book of business. Their AI Coworkers can work with your existing system whether it's EZ Lynx, Applied, Vertafore, or any carrier portal without any need for APIs or integration. The AI...

Tony chats with Timo Loescher, VP of Strategy at DMI. We have a GREAT conversation about the insurance talent crisis and how technology might help. Timo Loescher: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timoloescher/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/VOjJpXaEfHY

Tony chats with Mike Mensch, Co-Founder and CEO at Agency Brokerage Consultants. They are a merger and acquisition advisor to independent agencies. Mike Mensch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelmensch/ Agency Brokerage Consultants: https://www.agencybrokerage.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/8kqiHyHvJkE

Tony chats with Michael Fiedel, Co-Founder and COO at PolicyFly, a specialty insurance focused policy management platform that is specifically distribution enabled unlike policy management systems of the past that were more back office enabled. It's fully capable of providing a fully digital experience for both underwriters and agents/brokers. Michael Fiedel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micha...

I chat with Sean Merat, Founder & CEO at Owl.co. They utilize advanced models in order to provide deterministic indications for insurance carriers to make really accurate claims decisions as quickly as possible. They are one of the leading claims intelligence tools and are now serving 14 of the top 20 carriers in North America. Sean Merat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanmerat/ Owl.co: https:/...

I chat with David Gritz, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Insurtech NY and the MGA Lab mostly about the lab and how they help MGAs launch and grow. This is masterclass on MGA creation and you cannot miss it! David Gritz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgritz/ Insurtech NY: https://www.insurtechny.com/ MGA Lab: https://www.insurtechny.com/mga-lab/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/ELu9iQNW3iY

Tony chats with Rashid Galadanci, Co-Founder and CEO at Driver Technologies. They are a technology company that deals with driving and driving-related activities. They started with a mobile app with the idea of bringing AI safety and connectivity into the cars of today, including video and telematics. Putting all this info in the hands of the consumer, not the OEM. Rashid Galadanci: https://www.li...

Tony chats with Zehra Cataltepe, PhD, CEO at Tazi AI Systems. Returning to the show 2 years after her original appearance on Profiles in Risk. In this episode, Zehra and I discuss the real-life use cases she's seeing in the real insurance world. If you're at all interested in AI and its effects on insurance this is an ABSOLUTE must watch episode! Zehra Cataltepe, PhD: https://www.linkedi...

Tony chats with Jeff Radke, Co-Founder and CEO at Accelerant Holdings. Accelerant has been around for 5 years and exists to improve the specialty insurance value chain. They are "replatforming" the specialty insurance market. They serve specialty underwriters (MGAs and MGUs) and on the other side they serve risk capital sources. Their vision is an incredibly efficient infrastructure that...

Tony chats with Nicole Nwesigwa, Co-Founder and COO at iCover Insure, they deliver the best life insurance buying experience. They offer and e-app and algorithmic underwriting to small and medium-sized life carriers. They can get the consumer through the process in 5 minutes, guaranteed! They started in the fraternal space and then grew into the midrange market. Now they are launching iCover Direc...

Tony chats with Lynn Miller, Product Dev. Strategist and Growth Consultant at Straight Talk Writer - PIR Ep. 564. They help experts to generate more revenue through the creation of monetizable online classes. Lynn Miller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/10xyourexpertise/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/Rf07KuzKJdY

Tony chats with Eric Foster, Founder and CEO at Woop Insurance. Woop is an insurance technology platform company that works in the agency side to make personal lines insurance simple, transparent, and convenient. Their goal is to provide an unbiased database to help insurance consumers make data-based decisions. Eric Foster: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericfoster1/ Woop Insurance: https://www.woop...

Authentic is an insurance infrastructure company that allows any platform that touches small businesses to start their own captive program. It's an end-to-end solution to start your own insurance program and it's not just a button that issues other carrier's paper. It actually allows you to build your own program on the back of Authentic. You actually get underwriting profit from yo...

Tony chats with fellow elder millennial Mike Tansey about his insurance career. Mike spent time first in claims and underwriting in a regional carrier and then joined an independent agency. We chat about how to grow your insurance career and advice for management on how to engage and retain their Millennial and Gen Z employees. Mike Tansey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-tansey-48a62052/ Tony&ap...

Tony chats with Peter Tilbrook, Founder and CEO at Loro Insurtech, the world's first free insurtech! 🤯 Loro (which means parrot in Spanish) and their vision is to be the Shopify of insurance. Shopify is the best-known shopping engine on the web. Anyone, anywhere in the world looking to digitally sell an insurance product can do that with Loro in a matter of hours and for free! How is it free...

Tony chats with Angie Richards, VP at Poms & Associates about her career in employee benefits and her very unique approach to that side of the insurance field. Angie Richards: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angie-richards-402b34a/ Poms & Associates: https://www.pomsassoc.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/ftOvt__F-kw

In this episode of Profiles in Risk (E557), Nick Lamparelli engages with Tim Robinson and Corey Schmidt from AgencyBloc to delve into the transformative journey of their technology platform. As a CEO with extensive experience in software solutions across various industries, Tim Robinson shares his transition from web development to creating a comprehensive system designed to streamline insurance b...

Tony chats with Marissa Rutkowski, Founder and Co-Chair of IndispensAbility at Applied Systems. They are a community of interest for mental and physical abilities of all kinds - seen and unseen; and fellow Board Member at Insure Equality. Marissa is one of the insurance industry's leading advocates for mental health and is doing crucially important work. We discuss her own history and the dif...

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...