Profiles in Risk
The largest insurtech podcast going on 700+ episodes. This is not your grandpa's insurance industry!
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845 episodes
Will Demitro, President at Recon Risk - PIR Ep. 779
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 carri...
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Ted Vandenberg - PIR Ep. 778
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
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Amrish Singh, Co-Founder and CEO at Liberate - PIR Ep. 777
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 licens...
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Alex Rodov, Founder at Emtech Group - PIR Ep. 776
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....
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Content Strategies for Insurance Agencies & Brokers Using Zywave's Content Cloud - PiR Ep. 775
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 ...
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Evgeny Alexandrov, Founder and CEO at Pilotbird - PIR Ep. 774
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 Alexan...
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Diane Delaney, Executive Director at PRMA - PIR Ep. 773
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 insura...
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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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