Profiles in Risk

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0iKmH1ON5E Tony chats with Kevin Abramson, President at Cover Whale, an insurtech MGA transforming the commercial auto industry using data to make the road safer and save lives. Kevin Abramson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-abramson-7175915/ Cover Whale: https://www.coverwhale.com/

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E2BDd3tmPk Tony chats with Adam Meshekow, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at Leap about how they're modernizing the Deposit Replacement and Rent Guaranty areas of insurance which I knew nothing about before this conversation. Very interesting area! Adam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adammeshekow/ Leap: https://www.leapeasy.com/

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9QbykRQ0Is  I chatted with Melissa Arronte about People Analytics and Medalia. Melissa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-arronte-0008a02/ Medallia: Medallia.com

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Loi50ZA1QM Nick Lamparelli chats with Katelyn Johnson of AmFam Ventures about the insurtech venture market.

Nicos Vekiarides comes back on Profiles in Risk to give us an update on Attestiv. Nicos: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicos-vekiarides-4574723/ Attestiv: https://attestiv.com/

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NttM6ZOneHw&t=1s I chatted with Brian Fritton, CEO at Havoc Shield about cyber risks, especially for small businesses and how Havoc Shield can protect even your small agencies. Brian Fritton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bfritton/ Havoc Shield: https://havocshield.com/product

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H_531N0CSo Jon Broder is an attorney unhappy with the way attorneys work when it comes to insurance claims and has started a few different startups to address this issue from Vortex Legal to have somebody attend a deposition, to Zip Claims and DepoAI. A very interesting conversation about the state of legal claims technology. Jon Broder: https://www....

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNxKcNVENi4&t=7s Billy - Solutions for today's contractors Amit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-kalra-cpcu-mba-04846617/ Billy: https://billyforinsurance.com/

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFyXEooeOTA Nick chats with Itay Ben Zaken about Honeycom, which offers Real Estate Insurance Reinvented. Better coverage in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the cost. Itay Ben-Zaken: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itai-ben-... Honeycomb: https://honeycombinsurance.com/

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvNioyLTWEc Tony has a great conversation with Stuart Winchester, CEO and Founder at Marbel, about insurance, behavioral economics and how a reward system can not only retain your insureds but also make them into better risks. Stuart: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartwin... Marble: https://www.marblepay.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZlODteeZ3M Kate Dixon spent decades in executive compensation at gigantic companies and then starting a coaching company to help people better negotiate pay. You can't afford to miss this episode. Kate Dixon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-dixon-coach/ Kate's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Pay-UP-Unlocking-Insider-Negotiation/

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRmkpM2Ny4Q In this episode originally record for the Yellow Book Road but now released through Profiles in Risk, Nick Lamparelli chats with Insurance legend Bill Wilson and his son John about insurance and sports gambling and how risk is managed in these two worlds.

Kate Terry builds beautiful insurance products and now she's building them at Surround Insurance with a strong focus on serving modern consumers the way they want to be served and covering them for the risks they actually have. Kate Terry: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-terry/ Surround Insurance: https://www.surroundinsurance.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/q3AiUsCOR5c Tony chats with Sarah Muniz, the author of the new book "Undiscovered Voices: Unlocking the Potential of Women in Insurance", published by Insurance Nerds. Sarah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-muniz-a83b2794/ Undiscovered Voices: https://www.amazon.com/Undiscovered-Voices-Unlocking-Potential-Insurance/dp/B09QP3M8SB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UJ1O877L...

Video Version: https://youtu.be/GtI4_p3EgZA Nick Lamparelli returns as host for a few episodes! In episode 277 Nick chats about #insurance #analytics with Piyush Singh and Jeroen Morrenhof of Friss. Piyush: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piyush-singh-5199442/ Joroen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeroenmorrenhof/ Friss: https://www.friss.com/

A few months ago I posted a Hey #Insurance video talking about how I don't care about insurtechs as investments, in my opinion they have other more important characteristics. They have to be profitable enough to survive, I get that, but I care a lot more about how they treat their clients and their employees than about whether they're wonderful investments that make a few people very ric...

Video Version: https://youtu.be/0ZH3GYLMB58 Tony chats with Kim Beach who is empowering women in the insurance buying process by creating a national network of female insurance agents who have a passion to serve women insurance buyers. Kim Beach: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimbeach/ Insure Women: https://www.insurewomen.com/

Video Version: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-berneman-31644a30/ In episode 275 of Profiles in Risk, Tony interviews Steve Berneman, CEO of Blueprint Title. I knew very little about Title Insurance and Steve really enlightened me on how it works, how it's traditionally a duopoly and how Blueprint Title is trying a tech-first brand new approach to this very old fashioned side of insurance....

Video Version: https://youtu.be/iab6gJE1ajg Tony chats with Rachel Olney about her company Geosite which offers a way to better utilize geospacial data. They started in the defense side and they've now spread to other industries including insurance. This was a fantastic conversation with a brilliant founder. Rachel Olney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachelolney/ Geosite: https://www.geosite.i...

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4KKU7c4-vw Elissa Kelly made it to the C-level of a Fortune 100 insurance company and then decided to transition to an executive coaching career instead. In this awesome conversation we discuss her career and her approach to coaching people at all stages in their career. Elissa Kelly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elissalkelly/ Her coaching website: ht...

Video Version: https://youtu.be/CBkNa5qLKFE Tony chats with David Kelly. Bobtrak handles Producer Portfolio Management for both brokers and carriers. After 15 years of building solutions like this for different carriers, he finally decided to create an off-the-shelf solution for it.

YouTube Version: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zsqTAkuq2wg Darren chats with Seung Yoo, a fellow RMI grad, who has spent his whole career on the Risk Management side. Great opportunity to learn about the Risk Management side.

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBu71PiwR4E Tony chats with Ema Roloff about transformation and automation and how Naviant can help insurance organizations the complicated world of technology. Ema: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emaroloff/ Naviant: https://naviant.com/

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6bPFY1aEko Tony chats with Elisa Stampf about her career in both the carrier and broker space, and how she decided that things have to get better. In 2020 she launched Insure Equality, a non-profit tech company committed to help bring deep cultural change to the insurance industry through tech-enabled accountability. This is probably the most importa...

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jetYDY1J3xc In Episode 5 of A Day in the Life Darren interviews Nir Kossovsky, CEO of Steel City Re the world's only parametric reputation insurer. This one is deep and fascinating. Even I learned a lot about insurance, its history and the idea of insurance (or the lack thereof) as a signaling device in society and the market! Nir Kossovsky: http...