Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Bobby Touran, Co-Founder at Rainbow. They are a modern underwriting company focused on small businesses. They focus on underwriting by being very specialized, currently in the food and beverage industry, primarily restaurants. Bobby Touran: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-touran-782a6513/ Rainbow: https://www.userainbow.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/u0yfyzIeiak

Tony chats with Sivan Iram, Founder and CEO at Capitola,  the world's smartest digital marketplace for commercial risk. They connect brokers and carriers using AI-based risk appetite matching to streamline the placement process. Sivan Iram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivaniram/ Capitola: https://www.capitola-ins.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/urANly_xon0

Tony chats with Misha Bleymaier-Farrish, insurance executive, consultant, and author of The GSD Factor. Misha's story is amazing and her book is an easy read, and incredibly motivating. This is a really fun episode you don't want to miss! Plus, the hats! Misha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishableymaierfarrish/ The GSD Factor: https://www.amazon.com/GSD-Factor-Confident-Professional-Empo...

Tony chats with Michael Derkacz about his illustrious insurance career. Michael brought 10 years of experience at American Express into insurance and thrived first at AIG, and then at Chubb  and W.R. Berkley including a significant amount of international experience. He generously gives us some of his time to help the next generation grow their insurance career with fantastic advice! Michael Derka...

Tony chats with Patrick Koeller, CTO at When Insurance - They are solving a MAJOR issue in the US employment market. When Insurance protects people's ability to afford Health Insurance in between jobs! They have built two products to achieve this. This is crucially important! Patrick Koeller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickkoeller/ When Insurance: https://www.forwhen.com/ Video Version: h...

Tony chats with John Petitte, CEO and Jason Farrell, Chief Customer Officer at Amplifi Labs, a digital product development shop that helps other companies develop digital products. They help with UI/UX, infrastructure, machine learning, AI, and just about everything else on the development side. John Petitte: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpetitte/ Jason Farrell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason...

Tony chats with Matt Schmidt, about Ecopia IA. They work with the top Insurers to better understand their portfolios by providing them with location data. Ecopia's Building-Based Geocoding offers the first and only complete building footprint collection in the USA, paired with best-in-class address data. We leverage the most up-to-date geospatial imagery available to create a unique source of...

Two long-haired hippies chat about insurance careers. Sergi Ruiz was good in sales, very very good, and he was able to easily sell a product even great salespeople have a hard time selling: Life Insurance. This valuable skillset led him on a very fun adventure of a career in both insurance and now insurtech. Sergi Ruiz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergi-ruiz-b679ba8b/ Video Version: https://youtu....

Five-time best-selling author and insurance/insurtech executive Bryan Falchuk joins Tony on Profiles in Risk, to talk about his latest book: The Future of Insurance Vol III - The Collaborators. There's just so much to say about this episode, I just can't make it justice. Just listen to it, you won't regret it! Bryan Falchuk: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanfalchuk/ The Future of In...

Tony chats with Cyrena Arnold, Meteorologist | 2019 TechProfessional of the Year | Union Leader 40 under 40 | Children's Book Author | Insurtech Leader. Cyrena: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wxcyrena/

Tony Chats with Tom Avery, Founder & CEO at Signal Sync, an insurance agency automation solution focused on small independent agencies with one location. Doing both AMS and CRM, and especially Agency Automation to help your independent agency be much more efficient. They have a strong focus on Benefits agencies. Tom Avery: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkavery/ Signal Sync: https://signal-sync...

Tony chats with Nebra Barr, CEO and Founder at OnboardXi. They modernize, standardize, and digitize the (thus radically improve) the onboarding experience for the Life Insurance industry. Nedra Barr: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nedra-barr-28ab589b/ OnboardXi: https://www.onboardxi.io/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/R-_HWVKh2Js

Tony chats with Jess Dantice, Founder & CEO at Zenjuries. He used to run a Work Comp-focused agency and was disappointed with the experience his clients were getting. He created Zenjuries to improve the user experience through an app that fixes the 3 clogged arteries in the work comp process. Zenjuries can be licensed to any WC entity that wants a better user experience. They get 90% of claims...

Nick Coenen, Principal and Co-Founder at Wikifri. Wikifri is a solution provider helping organizations innovate in the insurance space. They have the Insurance Business-Oriented Operating Model (iBOOM), Insurance Daylight Data Solution (IDDS) and other consulting services. Nick Coenen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickcoenen/ WikiFri: https://www.wikifri.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/Y5GniA6...

I chat with Luis Pino, CEO and Founder at Agentero. Agentero is a tech-enabled insurance network helping both insurance carriers and independent insurance agents. They provide agents with market access and a state-of-the-art technology platform that streamlines their entire agency operation. They can quote, bind, request appointments, serve their clients, and more from the platform. Luis Pino: htt...

Tony chats with Diego Tanton, Founder and CEO at Invive. Invive is bringing insights from the science of aging to reimagine life insurance underwriting. Using AI, they help you bring the recent explosion of research into how people age at different rates, into your underwriting process. They recently graduated from the Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA). Read their white paper, to learn more about...

Tony chats with Nick Aube, Founder of Producer Systems. Nick helps agencies and producers better use the BOR in the sales process, create more opportunities, write more new business, and grow their commercial book.  Nick Aube: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-aube/ Producer Systems: https://www.producer.systems/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/D8MV8JP9tjI

Tony chats with John Morlan, Founder & CEO at Smarter Risk. Smarter Risk is a self-serve software platform that automates the assessment, reporting, and development of risk control and safety programs for the express purpose that business owners can qualify for best rates and insurers can give their best prices. John Morlan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbmorlan/ Smarter Risk: https://www.sm...

Tony chats with Maggie Stys, CEO and Roberto Sicconi, CTO at Dreyev (Pronounced drive). Dreyev offers an in-vehicle “digital copilot” device that evaluates drivers for risky behavior. Through Computer Vision and Machine Learning, the Dreyev system analyzes driver conditions such as head pose and eyelid closure to detect distracted or drowsy driving and issues real-time alerts in the case of danger...

Tony chats with Ariel Elizarov and Alex Panait of Lazarus AI. This special episode recorded in-person at Insurtech Hartford was both fascinating, mind-blowing, and hilarious to record. You don't want to miss this one. Lazarus uses AI to bring your documents to life. Ariel Elizarov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arielelizarov/ Alex Panait: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-panait-5691571a/ Lazaru...

Two passionate CPCU nerds chat about the designation and Stacy's adventure creating InsuranceExamGuides.com Stacy Trinh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacy-trinh/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/Ibwc4TFtm10

The prodigal older brother returns home. Tony chats with Nick Lamparelli, the original voice of Profiles in Risk, two-time insurtech co-founder, and Co-Founder and Head of Product at Green Shield Risk Solutions. Green Shield helps communities apply best-in-class risk management to LOWER their catastrophe loss risk! Nick Lamparelli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicklamparelli/ Green Shield Risk Solu...

Tony chats with Clay Olsen, CEO and Founder and CEO at Impact Suite. Mental health is radically important for your people, and especially for your Millennial and Gen Z employees. Providing access to great mental health prevention services and crisis treatment has historically been very hard for small businesses like insurance agencies, to provide. That's why Insure Equality is very proud to p...

Tony chats with Max McClure of Steadily, they provide modern landlord insurance. Max McClure: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-mcclure-b8a72736/ Steadily: https://www.steadily.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/ec8HegINlKE

Tony chats with Margeaux Gilex, CEO at IRYS Insurtech. IRYS is a microservice and API-based management platform for insurance brokers and distribution (AMS and more). The very guiding principal of IRYS is an AMS that embraces connectivity and doesn't hold your data hostage. Video Version: https://youtu.be/fLaCHmBP57I