Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with John Brunette, long-time insurance expert and insurance education consultant. We chat about his career, about the future of insurance talent, advice for the next generation, and more. John Brunette: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbrunette/

Tony chats with Jeppe Norregaard, Founder at InReality, a tech company that provides technology to guarantee something is real, a video, a photo, or anything digital. Security from glass to glass, from the camera to the final person seeing it to identify what's fake or synthetic. It's a unique approach, instead of trying to identify fakes, they secure the data with encryption the moment...

Tony chats with Karmina Szymanski, Head of Communications at District Cover about their Urban Risk Report, a deep dive report highlighting the growing insurance protection gap and capacity pullback affecting metropolitan business communities. A fascinating report. We can expand coverage to traditionally underserved businesses! Download the report: https://www.districtcover.com/urban-risk-report-20...

Tony chats with Sat Ramphal, Co-Founder & CEO at Maya AI, they are a conversational AI platform to help agents with retention and performance. Sat Ramphal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satramphal/ Maya AI: https://mayaknows.com/

Tony chats with Craig Bender, CEO at InsureU2, they help insurance organizations through modernizing operations to improve performance and scale intelligently. Craig Bender: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-bender-6165a7183/ InsureU2: https://insureu2.club/

Rich Cooper, Global Head of Market Transformation at Fusion Risk Management, they provide an enterprise resilience platform used by most of the large carriers and much of the financial services industry. We discuss their newest Enterprise Resilience Report. Download the Enterprise Resilience Report: https://www.fusionrm.com/whitepapers/the-enterprise-resilience-report/?utm_source=profiles-in-risk&...

Tony chats with Kevin Finn, Co-Founder and Reuben Vandeventer, Co-Founder and Head of Research at Tessera, the new product management operating system for P&C insurance. Kevin Finn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-finn-13b4852/ Reuben Vandeventer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reubenjvandeventer/ Tessera: https://mytessera.ai/

Tony chats with Spencer McDonald, CEO at Expert Insured, a systems providers focused on MGAs, Wholesales, and Carriers. They offer a modern Policy Admin System at a priced that is reasonable from a startup MGA to organizations with 1,000+ employees. It includes documents, policies, accountings, everything all in one. A end-to-end solution for the MGA space. Expert Insured: https://www.expertinsure...

I chat with MJ Saffer, Founder & Owner at EthosVAS, they help insurance agencies scale without losing margins or risk compliance issues through highly specialized Virtual Assistants. They build custom back-office solutions using trained, compliant virtual staff supported by proven processes. All with a strong focus on compliance. MJ Saffer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mj-saffer/ EthosVAS: http...

I chat with Jon Dewald, CEO at HelixIntel, they are building the predict and prevent engine for equipment breakdown and P&C. Their platform connects insurance companies directly with the maintenance departments of the large commercial property risks they insure in a way that helps prevent losses before they happen. It can lower preventable losses by up to 70%. Jon Dewald: https://www.linkedin....

Tony chats with Yo Sub Kwon, Co-Founder & CEO at Voltaire, a technology provider that automates the writing of claims correspondence. They help make the fastest way to close the claim the highest quality one. It generates accurate and compliant letters, in as little as 30 seconds. Yo Sub Kwon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jchysk/ Voltaire: https://voltaire.claims/

I chat with Vinod Kumar, Head of Product Marketing Agentic Location Intelligence at TomTom. They have evolved from a navigation company to a B2B company offering location technology that can be invaluable for auto insurance. A fascinating conversation!

I chat with Bobbie Shrivastav, Co-Founder & CEO at Solvrays, they allow back office operations unifying data, documents, and systems so that when work comes in it makes it easy to understand, decision, and complete. All on top of the systems you already use, without having to rip and replace. Bobbie Shrinivas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbieshrivastav/ Solvrays: https://www.solvrays.com/

I chat with Raj Utraja, Founder & CEO at Persisto.ai, they are a Commercial Underwriting platform that empowers you with AI Agents that work as your Junior Commercial Underwriters. They can analyze the files like a human would, assess the risk, rate, and send it back to the broker. A very interesting conversation! Raj Utraja: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajnishutraja/ Persisto.ai: https://pers...

Steve Johnson, Founder & Chief Product Officer at Insured.io and author of the Insurance UX Survival Guide. They are a complete customer experience platform, providing all of the channels that an insured might use to interact with an insurance company, as a bolt-on solution to any carrier management system. It allows you to easily deploy a policyholder portal, inbound and outbound text messagi...

Tony chats with Dylan DiMarchi, Co-Founder & CEO at Eventual, they are the NY based insurtech behind PremiumLock, they provide a 3-year price guarantee for US admitted homeowners insurance policies. Since 2021 the price of home insurance dramatically accelerated and it's becoming a huge deal, PremiumLock helps homeowners have predictability. Dylan DiMarchi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dyl...

Tony chats with Kat Gordienko, Co-Founder & CEO at Builty, a building permits intelligence platform that translates permits into usable data and risk signals. This is a whole new way to underwrite property and it's very interesting! Kat Gordienko: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katgord/ Builty: https://www.builtydata.com/

Tony chats with Sean Eldridge, Co-Founder & CEO at Crosstie, they are a workflow automation platform bringing to life the best AI solutions to reduce the admin burden for claims and service pros helping create a better experience for clients and policyholders. Sean Eldridge: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seangeldridge/ CrossTie: https://crosstietech.com/

Tony chats with Mark Tepper, Co-Founder & CEO and Andrew Anderson, Co-Founder & Head of Sales at OraClaim PIR Final. They are an AI native platform specifically built for responding to and defending claims of any kind that have significant exposure. The enables great collaboration between defense attorneys and claims teams. Mark Tepper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-tepper/ Andrew Ander...

Tony chats with Rafael Broshi, Co-Founder & CEO at Notch, an AI platform to build agents for complex use cases where the cost of mistakes is very high. The platform guarantees no hallucination and is deterministic instead of probabilistic. Rafael Broshi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafael-broshi-435a77105/ Notch: https://www.notch.cx/

Tony chats with Edgar Harutyunyan, CEO at Wamy, an AI Claims analyst for property insurance claims. It can bring down claims handling time from 20 hours to a few minutes. Edgar Harutyunyan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edgar-harutyunyan-b600a8368/ Wamy: https://www.wamy.com/

Tony chats with Juan Garcia Fernandez, Co-Founder at Tuio, an AI-Native insurtech carrier in Spain targeting the younger generation. A very interesting origin story and a must listen-to episode! Juan Garcia Fernandez: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanga2/ Tuio: https://www.tuio.com

Tony chats with Mehdi Lhadj, Co-Founder & CEO at Floapi, they are a Montreal based company doing automation for MGAs and Agencies. They integrate into your AMS/BMS and phone systems and help eliminate manual and repetitive tasks. Mehdi Lhadj: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehdi-l-08b847204/ Floapi: https://floapi.ca/en/insurance-broker-automation/

Tony chats with Suren Pillai, Digital Marketing Consultant at Insurance SEO SEM, they are a digital marketing agency focused on insurance SEO. After leading SEO lead generation for AXA and Sompo he now makes those services available to all areas of insurance. Suren Pillai: https://www.linkedin.com/in/surengyana/

Tony chats with Steve Pieroway, Principal at Benevolent Marketing, a marketing firm specialized in helping insurtechs. We also discuss the 2026 Benevolent Insurtech Trust Index and its findings. Steve Pieroway: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevepieroway/ Benevolent Marketing: https://benevolentmarketing.com/