Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with recurring guest Bryan Falchuk, CEO at PLRB about his reinvigoration of PLRB. They are a claims advisory organization that provides a myriad of resources to claims professionals at member carriers in the US. 80% of premium in the US is handled by PLRB members and PLRB supports them in making sure the coverage is delivered correctly. They provide weather data, building codes, coverag...

Tony chats with Scott Knowles, CEO & Co-Founder at Loss Scan, they help take difficult to extract data from PDFs and turn it into live data. This is especially useful for Loss Runs, giving underwriters, brokers, and MGAs the ability to easily import loss runs into their systems for proper analysis. Scott Knowles: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-knowles-03998a7/ Video Version: https://youtu.b...

Tony chats with Giri Laveti, CEO at Assuretrac. They help insurance agencies increase agent's happiness and cut servicing costs. Giri Laveti: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giri-laveti-461b01193/ Assuretrac: https://assuretrac.com/

Tony chats with Brett McKenzie, Insurance PR, Marketing, Resume, and LinkedIn Expert about her new solopreneur endeavors helping the insurance community communicate better. Don't miss out on the opportunity to have her help with your personal and professional brand! Brett McKenzie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettashleymckenzie/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/AkrKL2Vgov0

Tony chats with Andrew Filar, Co-Founder at Next Call Club and CEO at Peachy Insurance. While Tony spent 10 years talking about how the captive agent model was dying, Andrew quietly proved him wrong, and blew his mind. In 9 years Andrew went from brand new out of college to CEO of the largest Allstate agent in the country, to creating his own agency, growing it from scratch to $5M in 3 years, and...

Tony chats with Yaron Dycian, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at WINT Water Intelligence. They specialize in managing water in buildings which comes in through dumb pipes and is used by dumb valves and faucets. It's an unmanaged resource! Managing water is becoming a serious issue, even in the developed world. Unbelievably, about 25% of all water in a building is wasted because of death by...

Tony chats with Dave Connors, Co-Founder and CEO at DistriBind. They are curing the insurance industry of our spreadsheet addiction, a data exchange platform with a special focus on delegated authority. They provide a lot of validation, data cleansing, and most importantly validation to provide a lot of much-needed certainty. Dave Connors: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveconnorsinsurtech/ DistriBi...

Nick Lamparelli is back in a new leading role as Managing Partner of Insurance Nerds. On today's episode, we announce massive changes to Insurance Nerds that will be rolling out over the Fall of 2023 and into 2024 turning us into much more than we have been in the past, and into a much more unified platform for #insurance learning, community, and career growth! Nick Lamparelli: https://www.li...

Tony chats with Andrew Engler, Co-Founder and CEO at Kettle. They're aiming to be a different Kettle of fish with an incredible mission of being the biggest safety net to the world against climate change through insurance and reinsurance. They're a reinsurance MGA and a micro-reinsurer. This is one incredible episode. Andrew Engler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericandrewengler/ Kettle: h...

Tony has a super fun and fascinating conversation with former Google Product Manager, now Co-Founder and CEO at Coverage Cat. Young founders are just so fun, and this one is brilliant. A very fun episode! Miaw! 🐈 Coverage Cat is the new way for personal consumers to properly insure themselves. They are a data-driven broker that matches consumers TO THE RIGHT COVERAGE, not just the cheapest price....

Tony chats with Bill Haber, Co-Founder at TEKRiSQ. They're focused on helping independent agencies and the carriers and MGAs they work with to better streamline the process of engaging clients in technology-oriented risks. They're very focused on Cyber, one of the fastest-growing lines of business. We shouldn't ask agents (or business owners) to be part-time Cyber Security Experts....

Tony chats with David Watson CEO and Founder at RiskAdvisor, a platform that is basically a "souped up intake form" helping personal lines agents take that conversation and simplifies it and guides it. It ensures you collect clean, accurate data and distribute it wherever you need it. David Watson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agentdavidwatson/ RiskAdvisor: https://riskadvisor.insure/ Vid...

Tony chats with Paul Monasterio, CEO and Co-Founder at Kalepa. They are dedicated to enhancing underwriting performance and driving profitable premium growth for the commercial insurance industry. Kalepa's AI-powered Copilot software enables underwriters to focus their time on the highest ROI opportunities and to quickly evaluate and optimally select risk. Paul Monasterio: https://www.linkedi...

Tony chats with Jeff Hirst - Soft Risk and Professional Empowerment Institute. We chat about Risk Management, Insurance careers, managing people, growing your career, his concept of Soft Risk Management, and so much more. A GREAT listen! Jeff Hirst: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhirst100/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/yhcoVR4jwus

Tony chats with Elliot Bassett, Co-Founder at Rocketship Ventures Launch, a software platform that helps a producer walk through their sales process using an assessment based process. It's super efficient and gives them a variety of ways to differentiate theirselves in the marketplace. It provides an objective scoring mechanism you can share with the client and tools and charts to help improv...

Tony chats with Silvia Diaz-Roa, Co-Founder at ClaimDeck, a cloud base platform that brings the claims professional and the legal professional into a shared space to collaborate transparently and in real-time on claims. Claims litigation has seen little innovation because it requires so much domain knowledge on both the claims and the legal side. ClaimDeck aims to close that gap. Silvia Diaz-Roa:...

Tony chats with Rod Powell, insurance agent and author of "Black Pioneers of the American Insurance Industry". We absolutely love author interviews and this one really blew us away! Rod Powell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarrard-a-rod-powell-sr-rebc-clcs-86801616/ Black Pioneers of the American Insurance Industry: https://amzn.to/3OodDHu Video Version: https://youtu.be/P-tWLtZc3lw

I chat with Caden Braly, CEO at AgentsTech. They are an insurtech consulting firm that helps independent insurance brokerages while uniquely bringing together technology consulting and business consulting. Dear agency, what's keeping you up at night? AgentsTech can help and they GET insurance because they grew up in our industry and still run an agency today. Cade Braly: https://www.linkedin....

Tony chats with Scott Ham, CEO at Pinpoint Predictive, they provide the P&C industry with the earliest and most accurate lost predictions and risk scores from just a name and address, enabling carriers to fast-track profitable growth. This is some very impressive to help you grow intelligently! Scott Ham: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottham1/ Pinpoint Predictive: https://pinpointpredictive-20...

Tony chats with Samir Ahmed, Principal Insurance Markets at X by 2, an IT consultancy focused on high-impact projects for a select group of insurance and healthcare organizations. They specialize in big hairy audacious challenging projects. Samir Ahmed: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samir-u-ahmed/ X by 2: https://xby2.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/ofgqTVrLEhk

Tony chats with Micah Kalisch, Founder and CEO at Chrp Technologies. They offer complete home risk prevention through an insurtech app that is built for underwriters and insurance carriers to mitigate risks on the front end of the underwriting process. Including guided self-inspections, which run through their proprietary AI/ML models and produce result that helps streamline the underwriting proce...

Tony chats with Louis DiModugno, "The Bowtie Data Guy". We met at Insurtech Hartford and we just had to have him on the show. Louis helps create and establish data strategies for companies without a full professional data organization. If you don't have an army of data scientists and data engineers, Louis can help you get going! Louis DiModugno: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisdimo...

Tony chats with Meredith Barnes-Cook after 33 years at Liberty Mutual started her own little consulting firm focused on helping both insurtechs and carriers. An incredible career story and lots of lessons to learn! I learned a ton in this conversation. Also, what's the Trucker Hat Gang?!? Meredith Barnes-Cook: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithbarnes-cook/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/Ya...

Tony chats with Sherif Germayel, CEO at Trufla Technology. Trufla amalgamates real-life insurance experience with technology to create tools that enhance the broker channel. Trufla’s aim is to be the technology that powers brokers to better compete and grow in an ever-evolving digital landscape. Trufla’s suite of products includes a mobile app and portal for customer service and engagement, lead m...

Tony chats with Joseph Zaarour, RMI grad and Founder at iSolvRisk. Joseph is attempting to solve insurance risk management's biggest, hairiest most-difficult problem: talent! And they're doing it in an incredibly creative way. Don't miss this fascinating episode! Joseph Zaarour: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-zaarour-8769a6177/ iSolvRisk: https://www.isolvrisk.com/ Video Version...