Profiles in Risk

Video Version: https://youtu.be/0FbFH1rts-c Tony chats with Greg Murphy of INSTANDA. Greg was the VP of Business Transformation at a traditional US P&C carrier when INSTANDA came around and told them they could stand up a new product in a few weeks. He gave them a shot and was blown away, so much so he ended up joining them. It's rare that I'm truly blown away by one of the insurtech...

Video Version: https://youtu.be/FyalVc_FCQI In episode 269 of Profiles in Risk, Tony chats with Pete Grant, CEO at Safesite about risk management in dangerous industries and how this engineer decided things could get better. Safesite can help you streamline and ensure your compliance activities and drive team safety. Pete Grant: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petergrantsafesite/ Safesite: https://saf...

Video Version: https://youtu.be/YKlnDhbwy70 In episode 268 of Profiles in Risk, Tony chats with Anand Rangathan about AI and how the insurance ecosystem can better find answers in their data in natural language. Anand: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anand-ranganathan/ Unscrambl: https://unscrambl.com/

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrjqqKEQt2k I learned a lot about the Life side of insurance chatting with Dustin Yoder about Sureify and how they can help either P&C or Life agents. Dustin Yoder: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustingyoder/ Sureify: https://www.sureify.com/

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeUD9nsqk7M In Episode 4 of A Day in the Life, Darren interviews Brett Dresner, Casualty Broker at AmWINS. I learned a ton about the real day to day of the wholesale side of insurance! Brett Dresner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-dresner-cpcu-cris-arm-asli-83950741/

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j81ujC7yIno In episode 3 of A Day in the Life, Darren interviews Zach Finn, formerly known as Professor Zach, about this career that has spanned many different parts of insurance including building the Butler RMI program. An AMAZING conversation. Zach Finn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-finn-msm-arm-ains-b235095/

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hewDhqrfEMk Tony chats with Rachel Robinson of Siege Technology Solutions about why and how they decided to build the best secret weapon for agency's of every size. They're working on some really cool stuff! You don't want to miss out. Their system REPLACES the  old legacy AMS Systems. Their system is a new AMS and CRM system combined i...

Video Version: https://youtu.be/x0aLaPfYZgs Carlos Miguel Vidal chats with Tony about his insurance and insurtech career which has taken him from Peru to the US to the UK and back. He's proof perfect of how fascinating an insurance career can be, especially when you get an international opportunity. Lots to learn here! Carlos Miguel Vidal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-miguel-vidal/

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpJYSCfGfeo David was an executive and then he became a career and leadership coach. This fascinating conversation touched on so many things from how #insurance CEOs miss the opportunity to engage their people by talking too much about premiums and too little about about mission, to so many other things about how to grow and why a coach might make sen...

Video Option: https://youtu.be/vt4bcHqjVvk In Episode 2 of his brand new Insurance Nerds podcast Darren Bloomfield chats with George Dalle-Molle, RMI Freshman at Butler University - Lacy School of Business's RMI Program. Ever wondered what the RMI programs are like from the perspective of a new student? George is an absolute rarity, he showed up to study RMI while most get recruited into the...

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p55X5Z7BHU Cyber is critical today and in the future of insurance and of pretty much every other industry that uses computes... Great conversation with Guy Simpkin about Cyber and how you can train your people on Cyber at all levels. Guy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guy-simkin/ Cyber Academy: https://www.cyberinsuranceacademy.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/xVfq1MK-Lzs Tony Cañas of Profiles in Risk and Andrew Correll of Beyond the Policy in one epic crossover episode!

Video Version: https://youtu.be/__fvHRHsWpw In Episode 262 of Profiles in Risk, Tony chats with Zehra Cataltepe, who holds an MS and then a PHD in Computer Science, both from Cal Tech and is now CEO of Tazi.ai about the future of AI in insurance and how low-code AI can change radically improve your results. An incredible episode! Zehra Cataltepe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zehra-cataltepe-22853a1...

Video Version: https://youtu.be/pUTE4cTD2eE A Day in the Life of a Cyber Broker. Darren interviews Alex Clark, Cyber Risk Advisor at Hylant. Alex: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-clark-56bb7183/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/-yQ8l4Ftbjg Tony chats with Temitope Adeyeme, who is building the world's first by the mile auto insurer, in Nigeria, as a proof of concept to take India by storm. This is an amazing story! Temitope: https://www.linkedin.com/in/temitope-a-829768102/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/7xOOURcn9x8 Incredible interview with Jessica Chitwood Long. “I might be the first lesbian, heavily tattooed, pierced, President [in the industry] but I won’t be the last.” Don't miss Jessica's incredible story! Jessica Chitwood Long: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-chitwood-44a3b8202/ Commercial Insurance Partner: https://commercialinsurancepartner.co...

YouTube version: https://youtu.be/wD3dVOmLlv8 Tony chats with Gen Zer, about to graduate RMI Senior Darren Bloomfield about his experience going through the RMI Program, his job search, his advice for future RMI majors and they make a major announcement! Fast forward to the last 5 minutes if you just want the big announcement! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenbloomfield

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uo7DTSlnkg I chat with Scott Sloan, a long-time risk manager who wrote the fiction book "The Risk Manager". It's awesome to see the insurance/risk manager guy be the hero!

Video Version: https://youtu.be/iZpExFraEBY Tony has a wonderful chat with Wessly Anderson, Co-Founder at Agency VA about what led him to create a company to help agencies outsource some work to Virtual Assistants both domestic (licensed) and abroad. Wess: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesslyanderson/ Agency VA: https://agencyva.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/gvoM59FVaCY Tony chats AI, Machine Learning and the right (and wrong) ways for insurance executive to think about Artificial Intelligence and its potential implementations. Daniel Faggella: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danfaggella/ Emerj: https://emerj.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/MHFz7KT5AxE Tony chats with Hale Stewart about Captives and how REcapture can help even smaller agencies keep their clients by being able to go toe-to-toe with the big guns and offer them the option of creating a captive. What a fascinating conversation about this esoteric side of the insurance ecosystem. Hale Stewart: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hale-stewart-jd-ll-...

Video version: https://youtu.be/2mqBnLnns60 Tony chats with James Venezia about his awesome career on the broker side and about how to attract the right talent into our industry. A great episode, especially for any young broker side insurance professionals. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjvenezia/

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyBiX0UNL64 Tony chats with Gloria Guntinas Vanzo, about her amazing insurance career and her new companies: Pouch and Mltply. This is the worldwide premier of Mltply. You heard it here first! After recording hundreds of podcast episodes it's very rare that after the call I'm like 🤯. You can't miss this episode! Gloria: https://www.lin...

Video version: https://youtu.be/-UGUmCDpQlU My very good friend John Bachmann is full of heart and passionate about the claims profession. He finally sat down to write it all down on a wonderful book the Successful Adjusters Playbook. A can't miss episode for claims people! John Bachmann: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbachmann/ Successful Adjusters Playbook: https://www.amazon.com/Successfu...

Video version: https://youtu.be/O0o3XPTyOC0 In episode 251 of Profiles in Risk, Tony chats with Matan Slagter about Armadillo, which is introducing a whole new era in home warranty insurance, not just tech enabled, but overall completely reimagined! We also chat about his incredible career and how he came up with the idea. Matan Slagter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matan-slagter/ Armadillo: https:...