Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Taylor Horsager, Pilot, former Chief Drone Pilot at AmFam, and generally awesome insurance/insurtech pro about his ridiculously cool career. One of the coolest episodes ever. This one is for anyone who thinks insurance is boring! Taylor Horsager: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorhorsager/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/JwSovGPGxgI

Tony chats with Nikhil Kansal, Co-Founder and CTO at Oyster. They are redesigning personal insurance from the ground up offering an end-to-end insurance platform that lets retailers offer tailored insurance products at the point of sale and empowering consumers to complete the entire journey in one unified digital platform. Affordable and transparent insurance products in bike, e-bike, jewelry, co...

Tony chats with Moe Ghaziri and Amer Daya of QOP Smart Performance Consulting. With extensive experience in the Middle East and European insurance markets QOP offers consulting services to insurance and insurtech organizations globally. A very interesting episode! Moe Ghaziri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mostapha-ghaziri-826a3122/ Amer Daya: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amerdaya/ QOP: https://www.q...

Tony chats with Lee Fogle, Founder of RecovX Health & Injury Claims Express. He has extensive experience in insurance technology and decided to use it to help injured people recover more quickly. A very interesting conversation! Lee Fogle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leefogle/ Injury Claims Express: https://www.injuryclaimsexpress.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/OOi1NpV-sTU

Tony chats with Jo Lynn Clemens, CEO and Founder at RiskKarma.io. RiskKarma.io is dedicated to improved safety and security using intelligent risk tools to track, measure, and prevent emerging risk trends in real-time down to the individual worker. They help predict, prevent, and protect organizations from adverse incidents (crime, fraud, cyber, and) to increase profits. They also help improve the...

Tony chats with Ajay Sharma, Co-Founder and CEO at DESH Clinics. With almost 1.4 billion people India has incredible challenges to provide healthcare, especially the 70% who live in rural areas where there are no doctors. The Digitally Enabled Smart Health (DESH) Clinics use telemedicine to bring proper medicine to small villages that would have no access otherwise. There are 645,000 villages! For...

Tony chats with Joel Macharia, Co-Founder and CEO of Motisure, an African insurtech focused on providing affordable, convenient, flexible on-demand personal accident insurance for commuters and riders in Africa. Thanks to The Insurance Elephant for introducing us. There is so much opportunity to invest in insurtech in Africa. Joel Macharia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-macharia/ Motisure: http...

Tony chats with Matthew Queen, whose expertise runs deep and passion runs high for the esoteric world of insurance Captives. I learned more about Captives recording this than in 12 years of insurance experience and 10 designations! A must listen! Matthew Queen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/queenmatthew/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/fcWc8CGgWVs

Tony chats with Bill Murray, he democratizes innovation by transforming project teams into insight generation teams that drive vital data to leadership, so that they can make de-risked business decisions. We have a very fun conversation about this career and innovation. Bill Murray: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-murray-mentor/

Tony chats with Adam Poole, Founder & CEO at Safety Compass. They are a Work Health & Safety risk management tool designed to help workers assess, manage and avoid dangers in their workplace and help bring them home. Safety Compass can also assist insurers with underwriting decisions by providing detailed information on site hazards, sourced directly from the workers and in real-time.  Saf...

Tony chats with Dave Terne, Actuary and Founder of EmergingAlly.com . This was one of the best DEI episodes I've ever recorded. A cannot miss episode! David Terne: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidterne/ Emergin Ally: https://www.emergingally.com/

Tony chats with Lauren Jordan, AVP TPA Delivery at EXL. I didn't know anything about how TPAs work in the Life and Disability space and learned a TON in this episode! Laurel Jordan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurel-jordan/ EXL: https://www.exlservice.com/

Diandra Nims is a Media Liability Underwriter at a major carrier AND so much more. She's the Creative Director at Limitless Vision, a big Mental Health Supporter, and especially how she combines her insurance career with her creative pursuits, and the incredible concept of the Corporate Creative! You don't want to miss this one! Diandra Nims: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diandra-nims-a304...

Tony chats with Ben Jennings, Chief Revenue Officer at Embroker, the easiest way to intelligently insure any business. By pairing technology and broker expertise, Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage. Ben Jennings: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-jennings-8643b61/ Embroker: https://www.embroker.com/

Tony chats with Art Harrison, Chief Growth Officer at Daylight. They improve all the interactions between people and process. They improve all the interactions between people and processes. They help organizations build digital experience in front of any business rules either for customers or employees. They make efficient business processes into great customer and employee experiences. #Insurance...

Tony chats with David Carpentier, Co-Founder at Assurely, they creates and distributes insurance for changing industries and innovative companies. Assurely is the next generation of insurance focused on creating value for each stakeholder in the insurance system. 1. They build and adapt insurance products. 2. Focused on embedded distribution. 3. Digital insurance marketplace. David Carpentier: htt...

Tony chats with Ali Safavi, CEO & Co-Founder at COVU (formerly known as Vero). They are creating a smarter way to transact and advise insurance. The platform uses AI to help agents and brokers deal with the stuff they don't want to deal with (or the stuff they simply can't find people to handle because of the talent shortage). Overall they help agencies and brokerage modernize their...

Tony chats with Ben Griffioen and Sam Nudelman at Firefly, the fastest and easiest way to get set up as an independent insurance agency. The magic of Firefly is they get you direct appointments with a lot of carriers and help you keep the carrier appointments regardless of production 🤯. Sam Nudelman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samnudelman/ Ben Griffioen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bengriffioen/...

Tony chats with Mark Chappell, Founder of InsureScan, and 46-year veteran of the insurance industry. InsureScan is an MGA that allows agents to scan the bar code on your license and the bar code on your car registration, and spit out an insurance quote. Boom shakalaka. This is not Insurtech, this is Legacytech that works. Mark is also the 365th episode Profiles in Risk, one for every day of the ye...

Tony chats with Rilwan Lawal, Founder & CEO at GigEasy, a benefits platform for the fast-growing gig economy. Benefits should be in the palm of your hand and not tied to an employer. Rilwan Lawal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rilwanlawal/ GigEasy: https://gigeasy.com/

Tony has a candid conversation with David Fontain, CEO at Foresight about recent changes at the company including a significant downsizing.

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd0qJzRss6Y Tony chats with Roy Mill, Co-Founder and CEO at Joshu. A platform for insurance product development and distribution. They enable insurance product owners at MGAs and Carriers, to build, deploy, and update their products for digital distributions on the platform. It shrinks the process of product development to allow the product owner to e...

Video Version: https://youtu.be/cIUp4SSZOVE Tony chats with Actuarial Leader, Survivor Finalist, and author of the book Winning Conditions, mostly about her awesome book. Christine Hofbeck: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinehofbeck/ Winning Conditions: https://amzn.to/3LklOCY Insurance Nerds gets a cut if you buy it using the link above.

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g26mkf9ozS4 Tony chats with Josh Butler, Founder and CEO, and Jacob Geyer, Chief Insurance Officer at CompScience. They are on a mission to prevent workplace accidents. They're bringing perception technology from the autonomous vehicle industry into insurance for this crucial purpose. They package that technology into Workers' Comp. Josh But...