Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Dr. Kim Everett and Stacey Saunders about the just released Phoenix certification by Insure Equality. Certification is the next step for Phoenix. While we are collecting the longitudinal data from Phoenix, the certification gives companies the opportunity to use the data from the Phoenix Assessment right now to build a stronger and more inclusive culture for all stakeholders. Dr. K...

Tony chats with Katie Barrows, Communications Director at the Department for Professional Employees AFL-CIO and Elizabeth Kidder, Steward with OPE Local 39. We discuss the first union serving insurance professionals, why it's important, and how you can get involved. Video Version: https://youtu.be/fPWsCqNVq3Q

Tony chats with Dan McCue about his career in Social Media Marketing in the insurance and insurtech industry. Having managed Social Media both for a very traditional carrier and for an insurtech it was a lot of fun to chat with Dan about the radically different experiences. Dan McCue: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmccue/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/OD4pl3skzcc

Tony chats with Bryan Saunders and Filip Sierpinski of PainWorth. Painworth was created to help claimants in Canada understand how to fairly value a personal injury claim so they can manage their claim better on their own in full trust and transparency with the insurance company without having to involve a middleman or litigation to make the process more efficient for everyone. Filip Sierpinski: h...

Tony chats with Colby Allen, Consultant and Financial Analyst at AgencyFocus. They are a financial consulting firm that works strictly with independent agency owners to understand the value of their agency and how to grow that value over time. They help you really understand the cash flow potential of the agency and really understand the potential buyer. Colby Allen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/co...

Tony chats with the Homee team: Brandon Donatelli, Chief Revenue Officer; Jessica Marose, VP of Marketplace Strategy; and Martha Ducharme, Senior Carrier Account Manager.  Homee is leading the digitization of property claims. Their pioneering technology connects insurers, policy holders, and skilled service providers throughout the lifecycle of a claim. Their marketplace dramatically improves the...

Tony chats with Alexis Cierra Vaughn, Founder and CEO at Off Course Consulting. They help insurtech, insurance agencies, and brokerages get back on course through sales, marketing and operations strategy consulting. Alexis used to be Head of Agency Marketing at Cowbell. Alexis Cierra Vaughn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexis-cierra-vaughn-77573862/ Off Course Consulting: https://offcourseconsulti...

Tony chats with Todd Greenbaum, President & CEO at Input 1. They provide an end-to-end digital billing system with full customization designed especially for the weird needs of insurance carriers, agencies, and MGAs. Premium financing? 3% down and 26 payments? No problem. Regardless of how unique your billing needs are they can handle it. Todd Greenbaum: https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-greenb...

Tony chats with Vivek Sablani, Founder and CEO at Wizard Analytics. They enable underwriters to properly digest and analyze Statements of Values (SOVs) even if they have tens of thousands of locations. They can also plug into all your data subscriptions to enhance the SOVs. This not your father's cat modeling! Vivek Sablani: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vsablani/ Wizard Analytics: https://sovw...

Tony chats with Freddy Seikaly, CEO at Honeyquote, a residential property insurance marketplace and digital insurance agency that supports coastal markets, especially in Florida! Homeowner's insurance premiums in coastal areas are 4x the national average. Honeyquote's technology integrates with the small regional carriers serving Florida and the Gulf Coast and makes their products much m...

Tony chats with returning Profiles in Risk guest Myranda Elizabeth Joseph. Myranda appeared on the show as a doe-eyed 23-year-old independent insurance agent and Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) Student (Episode 131) and has since had immense career and personal growth. In this catch-up conversation we talked about her career, what she's learned, and what advice she has for new insurance p...

Nick interviews Nick Fekula and Josh Zier at Project Canary, a climate technology company that offers an enterprise emissions data platform to help companies identify, measure, understand, and act to reduce their emissions across their value chain. They use sophisticated software to help companies improve, report, and really understand their emissions. They also offer an environmental risk assessm...

Tony chats with Brian Thompson, Business Development Underwriting for North America at Descartes Underwriting. They are a parametric MGA out of Paris, France. They build custom programs for anything tha'ts a natural peril. If you have a weather problem and they can get data on it, they can build a program for you. Very interesting conversation! Brian Thompson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcth...

Tony chats with Alex Schmelkin, CEO and Jane Tran, COO at Sixfold, the first generative AI for insurance underwriting! They help insurance underwriters be more efficient, find more capacity and be more accurate in their jobs. Alex Schmelkin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmelkin/ Jane Tran: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-tran-xyz/ Sixfold: https://www.sixfold.ai/ YouTube Version: https://youtu.b...

Tony chats with Sindre Halaal, CEO, and Founder at SalesScreen. They are a sales gamification platform. It helps engage your workforce making their activity into more of a game-like environment which makes it more pleasant and more fun to do. You can create real-time competition. You can put visualization at the center to create accountability. You can implement a reward system. It works both for...

Tony chats with Ema Roloff, Co-Founder and Principal Consultant at Roloff Consulting. They are focused on helping software and services companies serving insurance really narrow in on how to transform their processes. Ema Roloff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emaroloff/ Roloff Consulting: https://www.roloffconsulting.com/ YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/2HW8AfWt-zc

Tony chats with Dilip Mohapatra, Founder & CEO at Coginitive View. They help companies prevent fines for compliance failures. Their technology can understand what's going on in your customer engagement, make sure your agents are compliant, doing the right things, and claims are getting handled properly. They can get you to 100% compliant! Dilip Mohapatra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilip...

Tony chats with Taylor Walker, Chief Insurance Officer at LoadSure. They are making waves for insurance brokers in the market. Data-powered AI-pricing for freight insurance. In the past a piece of complex business in the ocean cargo market would take a couple of days, with LoadSure it can be immediate or take less than a minute. If you're in the Ocean Marine Insurance space, you gotta listen...

Tony chats with Adam Bowe, Founder at Cake. Cake is a transactional marketplace for independent agencies to buy and sell books of business, not only full books of business but they can also transact in fractional books of business. This still is amazing and truly 🤯! Maybe you can have your 🎂 and eat it too! Adam Bowe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adambowe/ Cake: https://www.haveyourcake.com/ YouT...

Tony chats with Jeff Tyler and Suman Palit at Insurance Quantified and Groundspeed Analytics. Submission IQ by Insurance Quantified uses data science at the top of funnel, streamlining the underwriting desk helping underwriters make decisions faster and quote faster. Groundspeed delivers intelligent document processing. Together they create an incredible combination. Suman Palit: https://www.linke...

Tony chats with Jordan Peace, Co-Founder and CEO at Fringe. They asked themselves if we got to start over with benefits how would we do them thinking outside the box. What if day-to-day services like Uber, Airbnb, Spotify could be offered as benefits to increase retention? Fringe is basically a marketplace of a bunch of services, where employers can fund individual accounts for their employees and...

Tony chats with Mike Koscielny, long-time insurance executive, former President of the CPCU Society, and author of Born2Lead. We chat about Mike's iconic career, his incredible role at the CPCU Society as mentor to my entire generation, and his new book about leadership. So much to learn from this episode and the book: Mike: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-koscielny-mba-cpcu-cic-3424985/...

Tony chats Joanne Artesani, Founder and CEO at Sproutr. An insurance design and build firm. They do the actual building of insurance products including the appetite and guidelines. They help founders articulate their vision into actionable pieces. They can handle rate, rule, and form drafting. The entire architecture of the vision and the goal. More than anything they help insurance/insurtech visi...

David and Tony have both been through layoffs in their insurance careers. In this episode, they share how they handled the job searches and attached emotions during difficult times. We're here for you! Video Version: https://youtu.be/aj_CVnwXOCc

Tony chats with Gus Calderon, Co-Founder at FireWatch. They create detailed aerial maps of location and condition of all the vegation in a community. Then they break it down with GIS software and create individual defensible space maps for all the homes in the community. This is very important in California and other wildfire-prone states. They can quantify the amount of vegetation and use multi-s...