Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Amy Cooper, Founder at RISE, about the upcoming RISE Leadership Summit & Award Gala in Fort Lauderdale and so much more about this incredible organization! Amy Cooper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-sarah-cooper/ RISE Leadership Summit & Award Gala: https://riseprofessionals.com/events/2025-leadership-summit-awards-gala/ RISE: https://riseprofessionals.com/ Video Version:...

Tony chats with Jon Lincoln who had a couple of successful insurtech exits and is now running a successful startup in the ecommerce/non-profit space about everything he learned along the way. What an episode! This one is a cannot miss! Jon Lincoln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonlincoln/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/3IbPa-b2HE4

Tony chats with Adam Chadroff, Principal Insurance at Equal Ventures about the upcoming Insurance Capital Summit coming up in NYC on May 8th Adam Chadroff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-chadroff/ Insurance Capital Summit: https://www.ics.equal.vc/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/PDG0yolbdes

Tony chats with CJ Hutsenger, Co-Founder at Referral Radar, an incredible new tools built for insurance agents, by insurance agents, helping them find referral partners. Not just referral partners, but the right referral partners. Every real estate agent and mortgage broker talks a big game on instagram and facebook, they kind of have to, but that's no good to your agency if you can't fi...

Christian Brindle, CEO of Seven Figures Medicare Training, Lead Heroes, Hire Heroes, and the Seven Figure Medicare Summit. They help medicare focused agencies in all sorts of ways. Started with his own agency, and then growing by helping other agencies. Seven Figure Medicare Training provides training and a giant facebook group. Then they merged with a leads company, a marketing company, and a vir...

Tony chats with Rashmi Melgiri, Co-Founder and CEO at Functional Finance, an automated finops platform for the P&C industry. They simplify and unify all things related to financial management for insurance companies. Insurance is full of manual reconciliation processes, but it doesn't have to be! Rashmi Melgiri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melgiri/ Functional Finance: https://www.function...

Tony chats with Amelia Fitch and Jennifer Chase about The Society of Insurance Research (SIR) and their upcomming Annual Conference May 4-6th in Chicago, IL. I had never heard of SIR and I'm so excited to learn about this organization. Whether you're "big R" Research (with the word in your job title) or "little r" research (the kind we all do), if you love the interse...

Tony chats with Jim Sorebo, Positivity Warrior, Author & Speaker about his life and his new book "Positivity Warrior: Strength through sorrow. How a positive outlook can heal, inspire, and change your life." This is a wonderful and inspiring episode about Jim's difficult journey and how he turned it into a force for good. A cannot miss episode! Jim Sorebo (LinkedIn): https://www...

Tony chats with Tom Wetzel, President of Thomas H. Wetzel and Associates. Tom educates agents on how AI can help operate their agencies more efficiently and also on the cybercrime threat that comes with it. Tom Wetzel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaswetzel957/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/bSCQU9QiMZI

Tony chats with Travis Pine and Justin Waters at Solstice Innovations, originally coming from the Flood space, they have developed a complete insurance technology ecosystem for Flood, Homeowners, and all other P&C lines. A one-stop shop, holistic system that handles policy billing, underwriting, claims, documents, etc. A very robust and highly configurable system. Travis Pine: https://www.link...

Tony chats with Somil Jain, Principal & Sr. Consultant at Lewis & Ellis Actuarial Consultants. Somil is a creative P&C actuary specializing in helping create new MGAs. I learned a lot about what actuaries do, how MGAs work, and how new technology has enabled the creation of so many new MGAs. Somil Jain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/somiljainconsulting/ Lewis & Ellis: https://lewisel...

Tony chats with Dan Schuleman, Co-Founder and CEO at Qumis, an AI platform built by experts for experts that helps read and interpret insurance policies. Dan was an insurance coverage attorney frustrated by how manual the process was so we built the tool he wish existed when he started.  Dan Schuleman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielschuleman/ Qumis: https://www.qumis.ai/ Video Version: https:/...

Tony chats with Risa Ryan, Founder and CEO at UnRetire, a platform that connects companies in the insurance industry that has project work needing to get done, with retirees with valuable experience who want to stay active. Risa Ryan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/risa-ryan-8b653417/ UnRetire: https://unretire.io/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/mTxoAQg-BGY

Tony chats with Abdul Yusuf, CEO and Co-Founder at EyeFootage. They are building a marketplace where claims adjusters and attorneys can buy videos of car accidents they are working on settling. In a world filling up with cameras, many accidents are caught on camera, but they were not easily accessible before EyeFootage came around. Abdul Yusuf: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdul-y-33609b283/ EyeFoo...

Tony chats with Todd Schuchart, Founder at Razor Ridge Leads, they started as a life insurance leads company and has grown into a done-for-you leads program that can manage your entire leads program. They also offer a CRM with conversational AI tools to help them nurture their leads. Their leads are exclusive and SMS verified. They also don't resell their leads. Todd Schuchart: https://www.li...

Tony chats with Alexis Vaughn, Author of "Insurance Distribution of the Future". Alexis brings her extensive experience in multiple areas of insurance and has put it into her new book. The book is an interactive guide for agents and brokers, new insurtech founders, people new to the industry, and industry professionals wanting to learn more about where distribution is going. Alexis Vaugh...

Tony chats with Stephanie Mier PIR, Chief Insurance Officer at ServiceUp, an all-in-one digital platform for all things auto repair, from fleet to consumers and everything in between. Their focus is decreasing cycle time and severity when it comes to auto claims. ServiceUp holds your insured's hand through the repair process, with 24/7 updates and a lifetime warranty on the repairs.  Stephani...

Kevin May, Chief Strategy Officer at GIGAFORCE, a technology company focused on reimagining the subrogation workforce, which also affects the claims workforce. They can help in everything from identifying losses with subro potential at FNOL all the way through the process. I learned a LOT about subro in this conversation. Kevin May: https://www.linkedin.com/in/subroman/ GIGAFORCE: https://gigaforc...

Tony chats with James Benham, CEO & Co-Founder at Terra, they are a next-generation cloud-native AI-enabled claims and policy core platform for work comp first organizations. They pride themselves with being far easier to use, far easier to sign up, far easier to set up than the competition. This was a fascinating conversation about core systems that everybody should listen to! James Benham: h...

Cyrus Jaffery, Founder and CEO at Quotamation, built by insurance agents for insurance agents, they built a tool to make it easy for consumers and agents to do home and auto quotes within 60 seconds. It makes everybody's life much easier when quoting home and auto with a beautiful UI. Cyrus Jaffery: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyrus-jaffery-02840365/ Quotamation: https://quotamation.com/ Vide...

Tony chats about Chris Luiz, CEO at Scout Insurtech, it started as Insurtech Ohio and has now grown into a fantastic community for carriers, brokers and agencies to find the talent, services and/or technology they need to sustain their impact on the insurance industry. We chat about why the Scout Insurtech events are different and why you should get involved! Chris Luiz: https://www.linkedin.com/i...

Tony chats with Jon Kelly, CEO at Modern Metric, they serve large national brokers in personal lines. Their core product Discover, takes an insurance agent from data discovery, to quoting, to a fully customized finished proposal ready to send to the client. Jon Kelly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonkelly/ Modern Metric: https://www.modernmetric.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/k17ebwYEAaA

Tony chats with Elan Nyer, Co-Founder and CEO at Ownli, a platform that helps P&C insurers better engage with their policyholders and prospects, increasing engagement and reducing premium leakage. They empower individuals to capture and control their data and transparently share it with the business. It's a really refreshing approach because the individual gets paid for their data. It ope...

Tony chats with Joe Ems PIR, Co-Founder and Director of Sales at Sembley, a modern cloud-based platform that streamlines insurance submissions and renewals with simple intakes that populate right into the Acord. Joe Ems: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-g-ems-340813123/ Sembley: https://sembley.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/oCWgg9nNEr4

Tony chats with Tyler Jensen, President at The Top Performance Group, a professional development platform that helps business owners overcome fear, complacency, the feeling of being overwhelmed, and burnout. They help you achieve top performance and satisfaction in your life and business. Tyler came from running an agency and then being a carrier marketing rep. Tyler Jensen: https://www.linkedin.c...