Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Danish Yusuf, CEO and Founder at Zensurance, a Toronto based company who for 9 years has been serving small business owners as a broker and an MGA. They provide an honest, simple, and transparent experience for small business owners to directly get insurance, understand their coverage, manage the policy, and handle their claims the right way. In many cases they design their own pro...

Paul Drake, Founder at Adventus AI, they help commercial and personal lines brokers who write a lot of property risks put together the most complete submission that wins with an underwriter. The primary means by which they do this is by using AI to bring in all available data, extract the correct property information about a particular property or multi-family complex and turn this information int...

Tony chats with Francisco Lopes, Co-Founder and CEO at Sonant AI, they build AI receptionists for P&C insurance agencies. They create AIs that really sound human, with no lag, and is able to take the requests, recognize the phone number that is calling, create a personal touch, and act as needed. After the call you get the summary of your interaction and goes straight into your system too. Fre...

Doug Ver Mulm, CEO and Co-Founder at Turris, they are focused on solving the problems of the MGA space. They have built everything from the ground up from the perspective of people who actually ran an MGA. They are working on automating anything on the back office related to agency relationships for MGAs or Carriers. Doug Ver Mulm: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasvermulm/ Turris: https://www.tu...

Tony chats with Maggie Buchanan and Martin Calhoun at Residence, an insurtech that partially exists because of this show, AND is trying to go after a crucial problem with an innovative solution. Residence insurance prevents people from getting evicted in case of a qualifying economic hit like getting fired or an unexpected illness. This is an amazing private market solution to a social problem. A...

Tony chats with Nick Reed, Managing Director and Harvey Sholes, Head of Consulting at Ninety Innovation. They are the insurance innovation experts. They launched 12 years ago and have done 400 different projects for 60 carriers across all lines, all classes, and all geographies. They help insurance companies launch new ideas to market, build the capabilities to be more innovative and they equip in...

Tony chats with Andrew Townsend, Marketing Operations Manager at Smarty and Ryan Muir, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Smarty. They are an address location intelligence company. They do geocoding helping you find the exact coordinates of any address. Their autocomplete helps forms get completed faster when it comes to addresses. They can help you increase your revenue, streamline your processe...

Tony chats with Cortney Helfrich, Chair of the RISE Education Committee, they have been doing AWESOME work that you should not miss. They are starting to create an Introductory Certificate Program for Insurance which will cover Auto, Property, and Subrogation with much more to come. Cortney Helfrich: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cortney-helfrich-scla-gold-5b5b675b/ RISE: https://riseprofessionals.c...

Tony chats with David Schraub, a credentialed actuary in both the US and Europe, who now runs a consulting firm specializing in AI ethics. A fascinating episode that is embarrassingly late in being released. David Schraub: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidschraub/ David Schraub Actuarial Consultancy: https://www.davidschraubactuary.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/FwVW5CoPlc0

Tony chats with Luis Diaz, Founder & CEO at ClaimMentor, they are a reimagined solution for claims recoreded statements handling everything from scheduling to an intelligent summary of the meeting. Your average adjuster spends 2 to 2/12 hours per day just on scheduling calls. That gets automated with ClaimMentor. They then guide the adjuster on what to ask and especially feeds the adjuster the...

Tony chats with Yandy Plasencia, Founder & CEO at DataHaven Software, they are a core infrastructure company solving the foundational data problem. They live in the intersection of carriers and TPAs. Core focus on making sure the foundational data they make sure there are no data silo. If there is no fully automated data lakehouse yet, they can build it for you in an automated way. They offer...

Tony chats with Paul Richardson, Founder & CEO at Tumbleweed, they are a digital solution to help support comprehensive legacy planning under the tagline that a life well planned is a life well lived. Paul Richardson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulhrichardsonjr/ Tumbleweed: https://tumbleweedplan.com/ Video version: https://youtu.be/An6YYyTBH8M

Tony chats with Rick Pannu, Co-Founder and CEO at Trajan AI, they profile risks specially construction risks for WC, GL, Builder's Risk, Wraps, and more. They build AI Agents for underwriting and auditing of construction risk. Currently construction risks are underwritten mostly from historical losses with very little being used from the application because they don't trust the data on t...

Tony chats with Wendy Davis Johnson, Author of "Faith & Purpose: The Life and Vision of Insurance Icon Brian Duperrealt. A cannot miss conversation about the most important insurance biography of our time. Wendy Davis Johnson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-davis-johnson-b2040a34/ Faith & Purpose: https://duperreaultbio.com/how-to-order-faith-purpose/ Video Version: https://youtu.b...

Tony chats with Josh Schlesinger, President, CEO & CoFounder at Continue On, it started as a SAAS platform licensed to auto insurance companies to disrupt the rental reimbursement space using Uber and Lyft instead. They have since transitioned instead of offering it as part of the claims process, now it's offered as Continued Mobility for side of the road situations to get the insured off...

Tony catches up with Will Ross, CEO and Co-Founder at Federato about two incredible new products Federato is launching. Federato is an underwriting platform focused on helping organization win the right deals faster and help you systematize winning. Will digs deep into their two new products: Submission Triage and Orchestrate. Will Ross: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamross826/ Federato: https:...

Tony chats with Mark Miller, Founder at InsureVision. AI, they are a state of the art transformer AI which turns video into a measure of risk which helps you understand driver claims, improve driver quality, save lives, save money, and make your community safer. Mark Miller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-miller-81a89b149/ InsureVision. AI: https://insurevision.ai/ Video Version: https://youtu.b...

Tony chats with Dan Roselli and Sara Garces Roselli at Rev Tech Labs, a vertically focused fintech and insurtech accelerator program. They are on cohort 22! They recruit people from all over the world to start their business and grow! Dan Roselli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielroselli/ Sara Garces Roselli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarag1/ Rev Tech Labs: https://www.revtechlabs.co/ Video Ver...

Tony chats with Arvind Sontha, Founder and CEO at Kyber, AI native document generation and delivery platform that helps claims teams instantly draft, review, and send claims forms and correspondence, especially complex claims letters. Then you backstop that with a full highly auditable, deeply transparent, integrated real-time collaborative editor, review workflow and it manages the whole process....

Kyle Geoghan, Co-Founder and CEO at Indemn, an AI agents platform focused solely on insurance enabling MGAs, insurance carriers, and brokerages to build AI agents that people can call, text, or email to help with sales and service workloads. This is not only an amazing technology, but also an amazing conversation. You don't want to miss this one! Kyle Geoghan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle...

Tony chats with NavaJeevan Rajaiah, Founder & CEO at InsOps, an insurtech focused on helping P&C insurers fully transition data away from legacy systems. They help their customers sunset their legacy system by taking their data from the old system and seamlessly putting it into the modern platform of their choice. Using AI they do it exponentially faster and more cost effectively and can g...

Catrin Townsend, Director of Education at PriceWriters and Author of "A Risky Business: An Actuary's Guide to Quantifying and Managing Risk in Society". We talk about her career, how she fell in love with insurance, especially the actuarial profession, and her book. Catrin Townsend: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catrin-townsend-608b44234/ A Risky Business: https://amzn.to/4irPTzm Pric...

Tony chats with Shannon Elsea, Founder SettlementDoneEasy. Checks have largely disappeared in the regular economy, but they continue to be the norm in paying out insurance settlements in attorney-represented claims. The process hasn't changed much in decades and that's what SettlementDoneEasy fixes. Last year in the US, over $1 billion worth of checks were stolen in the snail mail and so...

Tony chats with Jack Miller, Co-Founder and CEO at nettle, they work in commercial insurance helping underwrite large assets like factories, marine vessels or oil rig by enabling the Risk Engineering process to be done much more efficiently and effectively. Jack Miller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-nettle/ nettle: https://www.getnettle.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/OpaQv5Mw1Pc

Tony chats with Mike Gulla, CEO and Co-Founder, Adaptive Insurance, they are an AI technology platform that is creating climate resiliency products for commercial businesses across the US. Starting with a suite of parametric products allowing customers to get short duration products for different things that will impact the financial resilience of their business . Mike Gulla: https://www.linkedin....