Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Tanya Coburn, VP of Marketing and Communications at Trufla Technology, and the brain behind Amplify Broker Tech Fest, an exclusive two-day in-person event in Calgary, Alberta that brings together thought leaders in technology, insurtech, data, AI, brokertech, and so much more. If you're an agent/broker or a broker-facing-insurtech in Canada or the US, you should consider this...

Tony chats with Andrew Martin, CEO of DynaRisk. Cyber intelligence company that does Risk Management tools for consumers, Cyber Risk Management tools for businesses, and Portfolio Monitoring Solutions for insurers, reinsurers and MGAs to help improve their Loss Ratios. Andrew Martin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjm/ DynaRisk: https://www.dynarisk.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/a1_cqvbl2...

Tony chats with Will Ross, Co-Founder and CEO at Federato. Bringing concepts from portfolio optimization and mixing them with AI and Machine Learning, Federato's RiskOps is an underwriting platform for carriers, MGAs and MGUs providing real-time risk selection and portfolio insights to empower underwriters to balance their book of business and make better underwriting decisions. Will Ross: ht...

Tony chats with Jim Russell, Co-Founder and CEO, and Andrew Anzenberger, VP of Product and Customer Experience at Orbiseed, an AI machine-learning platform that helps insurance carriers and brokers unlock the value of their unstructured commercial property data by rapidly extracting, processing, and summarizing documents 6x faster than humans and with significantly greater efficiency and accuracy....

Tony chats with Alivia Cooper, President and CEO of The FitzLane Project, a non-profit dedicated to raising funds for underprivileged transgender youth to receive LGBTQIA+ specialized therapy. Alivia Cooper: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thefitzlaneproject/ The FitzLane Project: https://www.thefitzlaneproject.org/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/KPBRML7p94c

Tony chats with Greg Rueter, of R&R Insurance Group about an innovative idea and product he's bringing to the insurance agency space. Agents, have you been having trouble with fast-increasing premiums on your personal lines accounts? This product which before existed only in the community credit union space might be just the thing to help your customers through this difficult time. Greg R...

Tony chats with Jacob Geyer and Mike Seling about exciting news coming from CompScience. Video Version: https://youtu.be/Gal9emOjh9M

Tony chats with Nick Cavanaugh, Founder at Sensible. Nick is a climate scientist and avid outdoorsman, both of which led him to create Sensible, a parametric insurance platform with its own weather and climate tech that provides a weather guarantee to consumers who are doing things outside. Basically, when it rains and it ruins your day, Sensible pays you back. Nick Cavanugh: https://www.linkedin....

Tony chat with life insurance expert Tony Steuer about why and how P&C agents should do at least basic Life Insurance for their clients. Tony Steuer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonysteuer/ https://TonySteuer.com Discount code for 20% of any of his PDF books: INSNERDS20 Video Version: https://youtu.be/og6_Oc2hHdQ

Tony chats with Aldo Monteforte, CEO and Founder at The Floow. They partner with some of the world's largest motor (auto) insurance organizations and offer them a suite of end-to-end services to help them go to market with connected insurance products. A great conversation about telematics in 2023. It's changed a LOT since I played with it back in 2015. Aldo Moteforte: https://www.linked...

Tony chats with Lisa Wardlaw, formerly of Munich Re and now Insurance Digital Strategist and President of 360 Digital Immersion. We chat about trends in the insurance and insurtech world and this might very well be one of the most forward-looking conversations ever on the podcast. Lisa Wardlaw: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-wardlaw/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/TnxCAdKG03A

Tony chats with Hamesh Chawla, Co-Founder and CEO at Mulberri, an embedded insurance marketplace that streamlines the workflows for PEOs and Payroll Providers. They offer P&C, WC and Cyber on their platform. Hamesh Chawla: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamesh-chawla-9354042/ Mulberri: https://www.mulberri.io/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/wIgC4cXQNVI

Tony chats with Demmie Hicks, Fouonder, CEO and Executive Coach at DBH Consulting about her practice where she coaches up and coming CEOs in the #insurance space. Demmie Hicks: https://www.linkedin.com/in/demmiehicks/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/aJeva8dQBcw

Tony chats with Chris Casaleggio, a long-time claims professional about his book "Adjusting to a Career in Claims. It is my great pleasure to support authors writing about the insurance industry and especially when it comes to the claims side where I get so many calls of people burning out. Anything we can do to give them the right tools to thrive is a huge win/win. Chris Casaleggio: https://...

Tony chats with James Tesdall, Underwriting SME at Shift Technology. Shift is a Paris based firm solely dedicated to insurance and helping the industry make better decisions both in Property and Casualty and Life and health. They specialize in helping with Fraud Detection, Claims Decisionining, Subrogation, and Financial Crimes. James Tesdall: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-tesdall/ Shift Techn...

Tony chats with Carolyn Kousky, AVP at the Environmental Defense Fund and author of "Understanding Disaster Insurance" about her book and how insurance and risk management can help the world adapt better. Carolyn Kousky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckousky/ Understanding Disaster Insurance: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Disaster-Insurance-Resilient-Future/dp/1642832251/ref=sr_1_1?...

Tony chats with Matheus Riolfi, Co-Founder and CEO at Tint, they work with tech platforms to help them create embedded insurance products, from creating the product, compliance, back office, licensing, and even finding capacity. Matheus: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mriolfi/ Tiny: https://www.tint.ai/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/o9x4pQGxf3Q

Tony chats with Daniel Fogarty, Founder and CEO at Evari. Daniel is a former CEO for Zurich Australia and New Zealand before creating Evari. Evari provides a flexible solution for next generation of insurance solutions. Complete end-to-end insurance process in the cloud through a no-code platform/low-code platform and a pro-code extension. Their system is also fully Event Native. Daniel Fogarty: h...

Tony chats with Tyler Jones, Chief Customer Officer at Clara Analytics and Steve Donnelly Chief Claims Officer at Amerisure about Social Inflation and how Analytics can help best prepare your insurance company. Are nuclear verdicts somewhat predictable and preventable with analytics? Tyler Jones: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-jones-68950b/ Steve Donnelly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-donn...

Tony chats with Will Young, Co-Founder and CEO at Sana Benefits. They bring best-in-class healthcare solutions downmarket to the small and medium business market. Will Young: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamcyoung/ Sana Benefits: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sana-benefits/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/e1-qngPt9wk

Tony chats wtih Todd Thams, Founder of Mod Advisor. They simplify workers' compensation experience analysis by creating meaningful, well-designed reports the clients and agents love. Todd Thams: https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-thams/ Mod Advisor: https://modadvisor.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/JqwIBKxrKyE

Tony chats with Suzanne Rabicoff of Invisible Technologies. They are the tech-enabled managed services partner who does the boring, monotonous work that gets in the way of people doing their jobs. Their process experts manage and optimize the 90% of evolving processes not steady enough for traditional outsourcing or automation. Suzanne Rabicoff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzannerabicoff/ Invisib...

Tony chats with Ozan Bilgen, CEO at Base64.ai. The fastest growing artificial intelligence startup in New York. They built a cutting-edge AI that understands and extracts data from all types of documents, especially for insurance documents! Ozan Bilgen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozanerenbilgen/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/bXAzB8yetC4

Tony chats with Chuck Blondino about his career in insurance sales management and his new book "The Remarkable Insurance Agency". Chuck Blondino: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckblondino/ The Remarkable Insurance Agency: https://www.amazon.com/Remarkable-Insurance-Agency-Increasing-Community/dp/B0BJ4MH25M/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Remarkable+Insurance+Agency&qid=1670333629&sr=8-1 Vide...

Tony chats with Jim Caragher about how to recruit and help new insurance producers be successful. Jim Caragher: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimcaragher/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/T5-t26o0KQg