Profiles in Risk
The largest insurtech podcast going on 700+ episodes. This is not your grandpa's insurance industry!
Episodes
838 episodes
Yandy Plasencia, CEO & Founder at DataHaven - PIR Ep. 772
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 t...
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Asaf Lifshitz, Co-Founder & CEO and Upasana Immo, COO at Sayata - PIR Ep. 771
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 proc...
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John Stammen, CEO at Convr - PIR Ep. 770
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/...
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Debbie Brackeen, EVP Chief Innovation Officer & Corp. Development Officer at CSAA - PIR Ep. 769
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 sho...
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Rose Hancock, VP of Product Management at Zywave - PIR Ep. 768
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...
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Zac Townsend, CEO at Meanwhile - PIR Ep. 767
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, th...
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Charles Johnson, Head of Product Growth at Insuraviews - PIR Ep. 766
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 analyt...
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Andrew Kelly - PIR Ep. 765
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 edu...
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Meg Duty, SVP at Puritan Life and Canvas Annuity - PIR Ep. 764
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 an...
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Chak Kolli, CTO at Magile Software - PIR Ep. 763
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 mis...
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Tim Lovett, Head of Enterprise Division at Blitz - PIR Ep. 762
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...
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Mel Faxon, Co-Founder & COO at Hey Mirza - PIR Ep. 761
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,...
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Rich Benci, CEO at Omega Benefits - PIR Ep. 760
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:...
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Nakita Devlin, CEO & Founder at Ric - PIR Ep. 759
Tony chats with Nakita Devlin, CEO & Founder at Ric, the first parametric catastrophe product focused on the employee benefit market! Their parametric managing general agent will host micro parametric products with the first one being a par...
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Frano Sain, CEO at Hero Response - PIR Ep. 758
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...
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Mitch Matthews, Success Coach and Creator of the DREAM THINK DO Podcast - PIR Ep. 757
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
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Peter Teresi, Co-Founder & CEO at Certificial - PIR Ep. 756
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...
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Paul Vacquier, Founder & CEO at Beagle Services - PIR Ep. 755
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 ...
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Danny Aronson, CEO and Ann Boger, COO at Tuned Care - PIR Ep. 754
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 covera...
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Sharon Henzler - PIR Ep. 753
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 t...
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Paul Prendergast, Co-Founder and CEO at Kayna - PIR Ep. 752
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 Ve...
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Nishant Tomar, Chairman and CEO at DigsFact - PIR Ep. 751
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 ...
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Emma Corcoran, Strategic Facilitator, Women's Leadership Champion & Consultant - Ep. 750
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-corc...
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Love Redin, Co-Founder and CEO at Vantel - PIR Ep. 749
Tony chats with Love Redin, Co-Founder and CEO at Vantel, they build AI tools for middle market commercial insurance producers to help them process documents, find coverage gaps, compare quotes, review contracts, and more.Love Redin: ht...
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Liam Harreys, Co-Founder and CEO at ThreadWise - PIR Ep. 748
Tony chats with Liam Harris, Co-Founder and CEO at ThreadWise, they are a commercial co-pilot for commercial insurance communications starting with email. They believe that while commercial brokering is complex, the tools shouldn't be. Their go...
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