Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Stephen Stonberg, Co-Founder & CEO at Tabit Insurance, they are the world’s first (re)insurance company allowed to hold all of its regulatory capital in Bitcoin. This brings an entirely new source of capital into the global (re)insurance market, and provides complete transparency with regulatory capital visible on the blockchain. The Company is focused on innovating the balance...

Tony chats with Harry Vardigans, Head of Insurance at Fathom, they are a modern cat modeling company focused on hazard mapping and catastrophe modeling on a global basis. Traditional models reflect risk from 20 years ago. Fathom provides the 2026 view of risk. A fascinating conversation you shouldn't miss! Harry Vardigans: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-vardigans-a42b1612b/ Fathom: https:/...

Tony chats with Austin Carroll, Founder & CEO at Warrant, they are the AI agent for marketing compliance and offers compliance-first social selling and marketing approval platform for regulated industries. Austin Carroll: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austincarroll/ Warrant: https://www.hellowarrant.com/

Tony chats with Vishal Sankhla, Co-Founder and CEO at Outmarket AI, they are an insurance operating system that helps brokers grow revenue, cut coasts, and reduce risk. They aim to help brokers do their admin work 2-3x faster and it's all built with the core design principle of letting you work the way you work without having to change your processes. A great conversation you shouldn't m...

Tony chats with Curt Hess, US Executive President at Vitesse US, they are a global treasury and payments solutions provider connecting the claims ecosystem with their unified financial infrastructure platform. Claims payments can get incredibly complex, with multiple parties, multiple approvers, and lots of friction and operational and capital inefficiencies. Vitesse solves a lot of those ineffici...

Tony chats with Will Demitro, President at Recon Risk. Will had a successful Underwriter and then Carrier Sales Manager career, before deciding to bet on himself and open an independent agency. We chat about his career and why he left the carrier world to start an agency. Will Demitro: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamd31/details/experience/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/Mt86dxvDDts

Tony chats with Ted Vandenberg about his 35 year insurance career integrating insurance and what we now call Analytics. Ted Vandenberg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardvandenberg/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/cRQzkTlcVjk

Tony chats with Amrish Singh, Co-Founder and CEO at Liberate, they create customer facing AI workers for insurance agencies and carriers. They AI can answer phone calls, emails, SMS, and a lot of the other activities that don't require a license. A fascinating conversation you don't want to miss! Amrish Singh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amrishsingh/ Liberate: https://www.liberateinc.com...

Tony chats with Alex Rodov, Founder at Emtech Group, a widely recognized pioneer in software QA testing. We talk about why software QA testing is now a huge deal in the era of developers using AI to create code, and how Emtech can help. Alex Rodov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexrodov/ Emtech: https://emtechgroup.com/

For insurance agents and brokers, being a trusted advisor is the holy grail of professionalism. When your clients rely on you for advice, you are creating value for them beyond the insurance policy. Becoming a trusted advisor means that you are bringing wisdom and advice, and that it is thoughtful, precise, and predominantly accurate. Over time, your credibility goes up, and credibility is a major...

Tony chats with Evgeny Alexandrov, Founder and CEO at Pilotbird, a lifestyle analytics company that analyzes social data points focused on helping evaluate claims for the US market. A fascinating episode you shouldn't miss! Evegny Alexandrov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evgeny-aleksandrov/ Pilotbird: https://www.pilotbird.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/pit2BOSFzG8

Tony chats with Diane Delaney, Executive Director at PRMA, the Private Risk Management Association, the non-profit association built to bring together the high net worth insurance community. This is a fast growing and fascinating area of insurance and the PRMA serves it in many ways from education, to conferences, to advocacy, and more. A great episode! Diane Delaney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/d...

Tony chats with Yandy Plasencia, CEO & Founder at DataHaven. This is an update episode, Yandy was on the show in Ep. 675. DataHaven is a core infrastructure company solving the foundational data problem. Their core focus is on making sure there are no data silo and data is available where it is needed to make the best decisions. This episode is about how the company has grown over this last ye...

Tony chats with Asaf Lifshitz, Co-Founder & CEO and Upasana Unni, COO at Sayata, an AI enabled markeplace for small commercial insurance that started in Cyber and then expanded. They recently got acquired and learned a LOT through that process, which is what the big focus of this conversation is about. Asaf Lifshitz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asaflifshitz/ Upasana Unni: https://www.linkedin....

Tony chats with John Stammen, CEO at Convr, they are an underwriting workbench for Commercial P&C insurers, brokers, and MGAs of all sizes. John Stammen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnstammen/ Convr: https://convr.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/yOR3hbvBRNY This episode of Profiles in Risk is sponsored by Zywave. Whether an insurer, agent, or service provider, the insurance industry is...

Tony chats with Debbie Brackeen, EVP Chief Innovation Officer & Corp. Development Officer at CSAA about their approach to innovation, how a 100 year old insurance company can truly innovate, and more. A very interesting conversation you shouldn't miss! Debbie Brackeen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debra-brackeen/ CSAA: https://csaa-insurance.aaa.com Video Version: https://youtu.be/jTN4uFfz...

Tony chats with Rose Hancock, VP of Product Management at Zywave, a leading software provider helping insurance agents, brokers, carriers, and service providers, really provide that service multiplier. From product creation, to distribution, to client services, they can help in every step of the insurance distribution process. Rose Hancock: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rose-hancock/ Zywave: https:/...

Tony chats with Zac Townsend, CEO at Meanwhile, the first and only life insurance company denominated in Bitcoin. Built in Bermuda with its entire balance sheet denominated in Bitcoin, and with a worldwide monopoly on Bitcoin life insurance, this is one fascinating conversation you should not miss! Zachary Townsend: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zactownsend/ Meanwhile: https://meanwhile.bm/ Video Ve...

Tony chats with Charles Johnson, Head of Product Growth at Insuraviews, they provide strategic insights through advanced analytics of insurance rate filings. They take all the rate fillings through a robust ingestion process and layer on analytics and AI to give you powerful insights. This is a game changer, especially for smaller carriers that don't have a large competitive intelligence team...

Tony chats with Andrew Kelly about PLUS, the Professional Liability Underwriting Society. Tony is obsessed with insurance education but has spent his entire career on the P&C side. This is a great introduction to the world of continuing education on the Professional Liability side and why you should dive in! We talk RPLU, CPLP, Exec PLP, and more. Andrew Kelly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andr...

Tony chats with award winning innovator Meg Duty, SVP at Puritan Life and Canvas Annuity. Puritan Life is a life carrier started in the 1950s which they have now turned into an all-cloud shop. They built Canvas Annuity, the first all digital annuity platform. An incredible story of true innovation, opening up a product to a whole new market, and all without alienating your existing distribution ch...

Tony chats with Chak Kolli, PhD, CTO at Magile Software. Insurance companies are struggling to understand the risks of AI and Magile Software is here to help them understand and manage that risk better. A fascinating conversation you cannot miss! Chak Kolli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chak-kolli/ Magile Software: https://www.linkedin.com/company/magile-software/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/XT...

Tony chats with Tim Lovett, Head of Enterprise Division at Blitz, they are a new fully digital API-enabled commercial lines E&S carrier that can service the entire distribution ecosystem from direct, to retailers, to wholesalers. Tim Lovett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timlovett/ Blitz: https://www.blitzinsurance.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/5ttJvASdaJ0

Tony chats with Mel Faxon, Co-Founder & COO at Hey Mirza, they are basically Turbotax for government benefits. Her Mirza is focused on helping lower income people connect with the variety of programs they might qualify for, from their home, in their native language. Mel Faxon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-faxon/ Hey Mirza: https://heymirza.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/dg3rZFa-cW...

Tony chats with Rich Benci, CEO at Omega Benefits, they help HR teams communicate benefit information to their employees, a task more complicated than I ever expected. Rich Benci: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richbenci/ Omega Benefits: https://omegabenefits.net/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/iFskLfY1Z0g