Profiles in Risk
The largest insurtech podcast going on 700+ episodes. This is not your grandpa's insurance industry!
Episodes
895 episodes
Steve Pieroway, Principal at Benevolent Marketing - PIR Ep. 829
Tony chats with Steve Pieroway, Principal at Benevolent Marketing, a marketing firm specialized in helping insurtechs. We also discuss the 2026 Benevolent Insurtech Trust Index and its findings.Steve Pieroway: https://www.linkedin.com/i...
Mitch Cohen, Founder & CEO at ClearLine - PIR Ep. 828
Tony chats with Mitch Cohen, Founder & CEO at ClearLine, a crisis communications readiness and response platform. They help companies manage reputation risk at the enterprise level. A very interesting conversation on an area of risk we don'...
Kelvin Johnson, CEO at Brevity Pitch - PIR Ep. 827
Tony chats with Kelvin Johnson, CEO at Brevity Pitch. They offer a platform for people to practice high-stakes conversations with avatars that sound like a real human. They also offer AI roleplays and coaching. This can be a huge difference mak...
The Salty Adjuster - PIR Ep. 826
Tony chats with The Salty Adjuster, host of the newest podcast in the insurance world, hosted by an anonymous adjuster with lots of heart. A fantastic conversation.The Salty Adjuster: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-salty-adju...
Joel Plofsky, VP- PIR Ep. 825
Tony chats with Joel Plofsky about his career from actuary to a long career on the systems side and product side. A fascinating conversation with great advice for the next generation.Joel Plofsky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelplofsky...
Hayden Robinson, Venture Manager at the
I chat with Hayden Robinson, Venture Manager at Creative Destruction Lab. They operate in 10+ countries and have 16+ locations across the world. They are a startup accelerator and incubator specialized in a number of streams including Risk whic...
Illia Pinchuk, Founder and CEO at DICEUS - PIR Ep. 823
Tony chats with Illia Pinchuk, Founder and CEO at DICEUS, they help insurers, MGAs, and Captives providing back-end and front-end solutions including Underwriting Workbench, Policy Administration, General Ledger, and Group Administration Servic...
Jens Nasstrom, Head Founder & Head of Science at Precuro - Ep. 822
Tony chats with Jens Nasstrom, Head Founder & Head of Science at Precuro, they provide Cognitive Risk Intelligence for claims. What exactly does that mean? They provide a new variable in claims. Claims can have the same injury, same d...
Natalie Arroyave, Host of Adjuster Hour & Director of Corporate Engagement at RISE - PIR Ep. 821
I chat with Natalie Arroyave, Host of Adjuster Hour & Director of Corporate Engagement at RISE and we chat about our podcasts, her career, claims, RISE, and much more. Such a fun conversation between two people who are passionate about insu...
Scott Johnson - PIR Ep. 820
Tony has an awesome career chat with Scott Johnson. Scott's dad was a State Farm agent for 37 years. Scott started his career in claims, and then grew into sales and eventually sales management. He's been killing it in Sales Management for deca...
Josh Graham, CEO & Founder at Ehab - PIR Ep. 819
Tony chats with Josh Graham, CEO & Founder at Ehab, they have created a weather modeling tool which helps businesses to tailor forecasts to what they do. A fascinating conversation you should not miss!Josh Graham: https://www.linked...
Dan Kies, Client Executive at Camunda - PIR Ep. 818
I chat with Dan Kies, Client Executive at Camunda, a software company focused on agentic orchestration. They’ve been doing orchestration for a long time and now they have better tools to do it with and are focused on doing it for claims and com...
Douglas Escobar - PIR Ep. 817
Tony chats with Douglas Escobar - PIR Ep. 817, a long-time insurance professionals who helps others invest in Real Estate. He makes a great case that Real Estate is a perfect fit for the skillset of insurance pros.
Will Kastroll, Owner at Harbour Insurance and Co-Founder & CEO at OrangeAI - PIR Ep. 816
Tony chats with Will Kastroll, Owner at Harbour Insurance and Co-Founder & CEO at OrangeAI. Exclusively on Profiles in Risk, Will announces the creation of an insurtech created by agents, for agents, building the first fully Agentic AME (Ag...
Jennifer Doty, Speaker & Author Helping Leaders Get Unstuck - PIR Ep. 815
Tony chats with Jennifer Doty, Speaker & Author Helping Leaders Get Unstuck about her career, transitions, the people who helped, her books, and so much more.Jennifer Doty: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-sierveld-doty/ and htt...
Tony chats with Jamie Ballot, Insurance Communications Expert - PIR Ep. 814
Tony chats with Jamie Ballot, Insurance Communications Expert about his career from publishing to insurance communications and we nerd out about how the industry can communicate better. A fascinating conversation!Jamey Ballot: https://w...
Conor Cunneen - PIR Ep. 813
On Profiles in Risk - Ep. 813, I chat with Conor Cunneen - IrishmanSpeaks. What a wonderful conversation! If you need speaker to motivate salespeople and so much more, you really can't go wrong with going Irish! And when you do hire him t...
Bob Frady, Co-Founder & CEO at PropertyLens - PIR Ep. 812
Tony chats with returning guest Bob Frady, Co-Founder & CEO at PropertyLens. Bob is on his second round as an insurtech co-founder after a successful exit from HazardHub. We talk about his PropertyLens which is basically a CarFax for homes,...
Jared Kaplan, Co-Founder & CEO at indigo - PIR Ep. 811
Tony chats with Jared Kaplan, Co-Founder & CEO at indigo, they are dedicated to MedMal and they are building an incredibly innovative MGA platform that blends the best new tech to disrupt an old school-industry. An incredible episode!
Jeff Arnold, Founder of RightSure and Prolific Author - PIR Ep. 810
Tony chats with returning guest Jeff Arnold, Founder of RightSure and Prolific Author of multiple books. Jeff describes himself as "the luckiest hillbilly in the world". From his childhood in rural Kentucky he ended up running, buying, and sell...
Bill Devine, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Naitiv Partners - PIR Ep. 809
Bill Devine, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Naitiv Partners, they are a brand new company positioned around the concept that the financial industry, including insurance, has a challenge implementing AI. It's a not a tech problem, it's a bus...
Chris Luiz, CEO at Scout Insurtech - PIR Ep. 808 - Scout Insurtech coming up May 26-27 in Columbus
I chat with returning guest Chris Luiz, CEO at Scout Insurtech about their upcoming conference May 26-27 in Columbus, OH. Beyond that we chat about the AMAZING organization he has built. Scout Insurtech is MUCH more than a conference and this e...
Sridhar Ravilla, Author of "Transformation that Lands" - PIR Ep. 807
Tony chats with Sridhar Ravilla, Author of "Transformation that Lands". After 21 years in IT leadership at AT&T, Sridhar took some time off to reflect on everything he had seen. What made sense? What didn't make sense? Took some time to try...
Tom Wetzel, AI for Insurance Agents and Cyber Crime Expert - PIR Ep. 806
Tony chats with Tom Wetzel, AI for Insurance Agents and Cyber Crime Expert. This is a quick update on how cyber criminal are using Agentic AI and what you can do about it. This affects us all:Tom Wetzel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thom...
Kabir Syed, Founder & CEO at ennabl - PIR Ep.805
I chat with Kabir Syed, Founder & CEO at ennabl, they enable insurance intermediaries seamlessly manage data and workflows to drive growth and profitability. If you're on the agency/brokerage side of insurance, this is a MUST listen. We had...