Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Emma Corcoran, Strategic Facilitator, Women's Leadership Champion & Consultant. We talk about her career in insurance and her work now as an independent consultant. Emma Corcoran: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-corcoran-1b851022/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/N_-V_-BJHnU

Tony chats with Nishant Tomar, Chairman and CEO at DigsFact, they are leveraging AI to accelerate virtual inspections both during underwriting and post-loss. They can help with property, vehicles, and toys. In 2 minutes the policyholder can do a guided video or photos and be done while getting the carrier all the info they need. Nishant Tomar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thenishanttomar/ DigsFact...

Tony chats with Paul Prendergast, Co-Founder and CEO at Kayna, they make it easy for vertical SAAS company to do embedded insurance. Paul Prendergast: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulincork/ Kayna: https://www.kayna.io/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/_OYgTHmXE7I

Tony chats with Sharon Henzler, after about 8 years in the industry Sharon went to her first insurance conference, the Future of Insurance Fest at Santa Monica Pier. They chat about what the conference was like and how it changed her approach to insurance conferences going forward. A great listen for all early career insurance pros. Sharon Henzler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-henzler-000/ V...

Tony chats with Danny Aronson, CEO and Ann Boger, COO at Tuned Care, they are revolutionizing hearing health benefits by helping employers offer full spectrum hearing care for their workers. Currently only 11% of workers have any hearing coverage and historically it's merely a discount on hearing aids. Tuned Care brings a much more comprehensive approach to protecting our hearing throughout o...

Tony chats with Paul Vacquier, Founder & CEO at Beagle Services, they provide last mile deployment and expertise of leak detection technology facilitating partnerships with carriers and others needing to prevent water damage. Uniquely they use plumbers they hire as employees, not a contractor network. They provide water damage prevention to carriers in a device agnostic way. Paul Vacquier: htt...

Tony chats with Peter Teresi, Co-Founder & CEO at Certificial, they are a network that sits between insurance and all other verticals focused on the certificate of insurance process from a PDF (that often needs to be made multiple times and only proves the policy was active at the time it got made) to a living document that is a truly smart Certificate of Insurance. Peter Teresi: https://www.l...

Tony chats with Mitch Matthews, Success Coach and Creator of the DREAM THINK DO Podcast. Mitch Matthews: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchmatthews/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/bRZWIj77y_M

Tony chats with Frano Sain, CEO at Hero Response, they offer a unique monitoring system that improves profitability and lowers waster on all water related claims. It saves the contractors from having to go back every day to see if the equipment has finished drying the loss. Frano Sain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franosain/ Hero Response: https://heroresponse.com/home Video Version: https://youtu....

Tony chats with Matan Slaghter, CEO at Armadillo, the first tech enabled home warranty program. Matan originally talked about Armadillo on Ep. 251 and now returns to give us an update and make an announcement of some unique improvements they have made to their offerings. Matan Slagter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matan-slagter/ Armadillo: https://www.armadillo.one/ PIR Ep. 251: https://youtu.be/O0...

Tony chats with Patrick Girouard, Founder and CEO at District Cover, they are a small business insurance platform solely focused on broadening insurance access within cities and especially areas where traditional carriers have shied away or struggled to serve. They underwrite at a block by block or even business by business level of granularity allowing them to be much more accurate without needin...

Tony chats with Lars Helgeson, Founder and CEO at Easy Aftercare, they have applied CRM technology to radically improve patient compliance through a series curated personalized text messages and videos leading to 30% better outcomes and 40% reduction in unneeded calls back to the providers office. An amazing example of how existing technology can be reimagined in new and innovative ways! Lars Helg...

Tony chats with Scott Thompson, long-time insurance recruiter. We chat about the insurance industry past and present, especially when it comes to the recruiting environment. Scott Thompson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottthompsontn/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/I_SKhJBQ8ZQ

Tony chats with Arlind Mucaj, AVP CDO Exchange & Partnerships at Verisk, Chief Experience Officer at Insurtech Hartford about his career and what they're building at Insurtech Hartford. Arlind Mucaj: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arlind-mucaj-mba-scaled-agile-black-belt-831b03b/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/4qcRDSYVIwI

Tony chats with Todd Hawk, Founder and CEO At Elisa For Life, they are an insurtech in the Life Insurance space solving a difficult issue in that space, the younger generation of buyers don't respond well to cold-calling or mailers. Elisa for Life is an embeddable digital advisor and digital sales assistant. The prospect answers a series of questions, gets scored, educated, and then Elisa mak...

Tony chats with Santoash Rajaram, Founder at Stitch Studio, they are building an insurance specific AI platform making AI agents. They believe that in order for AI to be adaptable to insurance organizations have to be able to embed them in the existing value chain of what’s happening in the organization already. And you need to create an infrastructure that allows agents to be rooted in the insura...

Tony chats with Toby Hung, Co-Founder and COO at 1Fort, they are an all-in-one solution for commercial insurance agents to grow revenue and save time and money. Their AI digs through your book and finds cross-sale opportunities, analyzes the risk exposures based on third party data, and even gives you talking points to make the sale. It can also help submitting on different carrier portals, creati...

Tony chats with Rose Hall about her fantastic career in insurance and innovation. Rose Hall: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rose-hall-pe/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/qnLiXvowv2g

Tony chats with  Alicia Burke, Director of Portfolio and Product Development at The CAS Institute, we chat about ICAS a wholly owned subsidiary of the Casualty Actuarial Society that offers analytics professionals and their employers the opportunity to certify skills specifically as applied to property and casualty insurance. Their Certified Specialist in Predictive Analytics (CSPA) and the Intern...

Tony chats Luis Ricci Maia, Co-Founder and COO at Trag, they are a Brazilian insurtech helping their clients understand climate risk they're facing in agriculture and help mitigate that risk through parametric and weather derivatives. Brazil is the largest exporter of crops in the world and only 10% of those crops have any insurance, so this is massive opportunity. Luis Ricci Maia: https://ww...

Tony chats with Kerry Macca about the Kerry Macca - Women in Insurance Initiative and their live event at the RISE Leadership Summit. Kerry Macca: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrymacca/ Women in Insurance Initiative: https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-insurance-initiative/posts/?feedView=all Video Version: https://youtu.be/bsDpdPt2JUo

Tony chats with Niti Jain, Founder & CEO at medml.ai, the first underwriting platform created by actuaries. After 10 years of experience in pricing Life, Health, and P&C she was tired of extremely manual underwriting processes so they set out to create a better underwriting platform. Niti Jain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niti-nj-jain-b6083b73/ medml.al: https://medml.ai/ Video Version: ht...

Tony chats with Michael Derkacz, Business Development at Ai. Law and Ai. Claims. They are a single claim file application, they generate a claims analysis report that summarizes complicated files and it does very powerful analysis to superpower your claims adjusters. It provides next steps for the claim and helps newer adjusters think like an experienced adjuster! Michael Derkacz: https://www.link...

Tony chats with Chris Bean, CEO & Co-Founder at Skytree Scientific, they are revolutionizing how insurers assess lightning risk. Their platform analyses property data and delivers a risk score in minutes allowing for faster underwriting, better pricing, and fewer losses. It also generates mitigation strategies for the policyholder. This technology came from an engineering process in Europe and...

I chat with Les Schlesinger, Owner at Auto Insurance Consulting, he has 35 years of experience in all aspects of the Auto Insurance space and is now offering that expertise to carriers, MGAs, etc who need help in Product, Marketing, Claims, Litigation, etc. Les Schlesinger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/les-schlesinger-039a3510/