
Profiles in Risk
The largest insurtech podcast going on 700+ episodes. This is not your grandpa's insurance industry!
Episodes
796 episodes
Les Schlesinger, Owner at Auto Insurance Consulting - PIR Ep. 730
I chat with Les Schlesinger, Owner at Auto Insurance Consulting, he has 35 years of experience in all aspects of the Auto Insurance space and is now offering that expertise to carriers, MGAs, etc who need help in Product, Marketing, Claims, Lit...
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Lucas Roberts, Wholesale Broker at Anzen Insurance - PIR Ep. 729
Tony chats with Lucas Roberts, Wholesale Broker at Anzen Insurance, they aim to offer the best technology combined with the best wholesale broker offering Cyber, Specialty Commercial, E&O, D&O and EPLI. Their software analyzes submissio...
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Dan Hill, National Director of Sales at CarFax - PIR Ep. 728
Tony Chats with Dan Hill, National Director of Sales at CarFax, you probably think of CarFax as the people who get you a report on a used car before you buy it but for the insurance world they do a lot more!Dan Price: https://www....
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Jeremy Jawish, CEO at Shift Technology - PIR Ep. 727
I chat with Jeremy Jawish, CEO at Shift Technology, they are a vertical AI company providing solutions for the insurance industry helping us make better decisions. They already serve 70% of the US P&C market for AI fraud detection! They jus...
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Murtaza Ali, Co-Founder and CEO at Symphony - PIR Ep. 726
Tony chats with Murtaza Ali, Co-Founder and CEO at Symphony, they have created a voice AI to build role plays to train insurance professionals. These fully dynamic voice AI agents can provide full conversations for practice, including on really...
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Grace Hanson, Co-Founder and CEO at Elysian - PIR Ep. 725
Tony chats with Grace Hanson, Co-Founder and CEO at Elysian, they are an AI native TPA that handles claims end-to-end. They build the best tech and combine it with highly experienced adjusters and it results in better handling of commercial cla...
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Joseph Sigona, Head of Business Development at MGM Technology Partners - PIR Ep. 724
Tony chats with Joseph Sigona, Head of Business Development at MGM Technology Partners, they bring complex scalable enterprise level applications to production. They can be the one stop shop in all of the pieces to get your application into pro...
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Brian Baughman, CPCU, ARM - ESOP Evangelist - PIR Ep. 723
Brian Baughman, CPCU, ARM - ESOP Evangelist and VP of Sales at The Hartwell Corporation. We chat about why it makes sense for agencies to adopt an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and what the advantages are. All employees are automatically...
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Chris Merideth, Candidate for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner - PIR Ep. 722
Tony chats with Chris Merideth, Candidate for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner.Chris Merideth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-merideth-a6b4a255/Video Version: https://youtu.be/xrTdfGMQ4TQ
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David Serna Perez, Account Executive at LivePerson - PIR Ep. 721
David Serna Perez, Account Executive at LivePerson, they are an AI native company that has developed two AI agent assistant for the underwriter. They are mainly focused on MGA and underwriting teams. One is focused on MGA underwriting teams and...
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Daniel Palacios, Co-Founder and CRO at Sytrex - PIR Ep. 720
Tony chats with Daniel Palacios, Co-Founder and CRO at Sytrex, they are an AI native company that has developed two AI Agents assistants for underwriters. They are mainly focused on helping MGA underwriting teams, basically co-pilots for insura...
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Charles Merritt, Co-Founder and CEO at Buddy - PIR Ep. 719
Tony chats with Charles Merritt, Co-Founder and CEO at Buddy, the insurance gateway for people who build software. They help product teams and developers that are being tasked with integrating insurance APIs and help accelerate distribution of ...
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Bill Martin, President & CEO at Plymouth Rock Home Assurance - PIR Ep. 718
Tony chats with Bill Martin, President & CEO at Plymouth Rock Home Assurance in a friendly debate about the merits of remote vs a full return-to-the-office (RTO).Bill Martin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billmartiniv/
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Nadav Interstein, VP of Marketing at Swifter.io - PIR Ep. 717
Tony chats with Nadav Interstein, VP of Marketing at Swifter.io, they started as a low-code no-code platform but they have now shifted and have aggressively focused on AI. Now they have created a software development life cycle tool that uses a...
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Mary Rossi, President at Rossi Claims Training Academy - PIR Ep. 716
Tony chats with Mary Rossi, President at Rossi Claims Training Academy. Mary is a 35 year veteran of the claims world, with extensive experience both carrier claims and running an IA firm. She's now offering training for claims adjuster for bot...
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Nima Ashtari, Founder and CEO at Manifold - PIR Ep. 715
Tony chats with Nima Ashtari, Founder and CEO at Manifold, they help insurance in the auto space use video analytics for telematics. From dash cams to telematics devices they can help you digest all of it. Essentially they are an aggregation an...
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Michael Ley, Director of Network Relationships at Hawksoft - PIR Ep. 714
Tony chats with Michael Ley, Director of Network Relationships at Hawksoft, they are the third largest Agency Management System (AMS) with a passionate group of users. (For High Ds: Actual content starts at about minute 8.) I had heard about Ha...
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John L. Connell, Co-Founder and CEO at Focal - PIR Ep. 713
Tony chats with John L. Connell, Co-Founder and CEO at Focal, they are the enterprise grade AI notetaking platform and automation platform for financial advisors and in the insurance agency and broker/dealer space. They are used across Charles ...
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Eric Adler, Founder and CEO at Flume Water - PIR Ep. 712
Tony chats with Eric Adler, Founder and CEO at Flume Water, they help save insurance companies money and homeowners the pain and experiences of filing a water claim. They also help decrease the time away from their house which is a win/win. The...
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Mike Hallock, Partner at McCoy Leavitt Laskey and President at Chicago CLM - PIR Ep. 711
Tony chats with Mike Hallock, Partner at McCoy Leavitt Laskey and President at Chicago CLM. Mike is an expert in fire and explosion catastrophic claims and is working with CLM to build an Emergency Response Taskforce with over 100 members to ag...
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Lokesh Ballenahalli, Founder and Sunil Shivappa, COO at Enkefalos Technology - PIR Ep. 710
Tony chats with Lokesh Ballenahalli, Founder and Sunil Shivappa, COO at Enkefalos Technology, they are a research first global AI company focused on building AI solutions for the AI industry. They combine research deep research in LLMs, Respons...
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Frederick Fisher, Professional Liability Expert and Author of "Claims-Made Insurance" - PIR Ep. 709
Frederick Fisher, Professional Liability Expert and Author of "Claims-Made Insurance The Policy that Changed The Industry: A Deep Dive, Review, and History". A fascinating conversation about the Claims-Made side of insurance! A must not miss ep...
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The Topol Brothers, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs at MGT Insurance - PIR Ep. 708
Tony chats with Graham Topol and Michael Topol, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs at MGT Insurance, they are the first Neo Insurer, a modern commercial insurance carrier which they built from the ground up to support small businesses and the agents that ...
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Kyle Bartee, Founder and CEO at Aviation Ops Ally - PIR Ep. 707
Tony chats with Kyle Bartee, Founder and CEO Aviation Ops Ally. They are building an all-in-one app for private pilots that helps them get on the air faster, and helps them with their complicated insurance needs. A super fun conversation, espec...
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Michelle Raue, EVP Chief Claims and Transformation Officer at Preferred Mutual - PIR Ep. 706
Tony chats with Michelle Raue, EVP Chief Claims and Transformation Officer at Preferred Mutual. Michelle has had an incredible claims career and joins me on the show to talk about claims careers, mental health, innovation, and so much more. A c...
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