Profiles in Risk
The largest insurtech podcast going on 700+ episodes. This is not your grandpa's insurance industry!
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936 episodes
Clifford Cohen with Epoq - Special Episode About Epoq for the Insurance Nerds Reception at ITC
Clifford Cohen, Strategic Enterprise Account Executive at Epoq joined me for a quick episode. He'll be joining the Insurance Nerds Reception at ITC, Monday 6 pm at Rhythm and Riffs. Epoq is a pioneer for legal technology in the insurance indust...
Jerry Chie, CEO at Guava - PIR Ep. 866
Tony chats with Jerry Chie, CEO at Guava. They are reimagining what insurance can look like, if it was sold based on reward and they are building the loyalty platform for insurance with appropriate messaging deeply integrated to keep the custom...
Basil Mimi, Co-Founder & CEO at Mantas - Ep. 865
Tony chats with Basil Mimi, Co-Founder & CEO at Mantas, a parametric MGA focused on cloud outage insurance and other digital risks.Basil Mimi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/basilmimi/Mantas: https://mantas.ai/
Gary Lavoie, CEO at Tru-North.Tech - PIR Ep. 864
Tony chats with Gary Lavoie, CEO at Tru-North.Tech. They are much more than a Worker's Compensation platform, they are a whole new worker-centric way to reorganize the way we handle Worker's Compensation claims! A mission driven company set on ...
Aqeel Ali, Managing Partner at Salience Solutions - PIR Ep. 863
Tony chats with Aqeel Ali, Managing Partner at Salience Solutions, they help insurance agents with their AI transformations by building the operational infrastructure agents need in the new world.Aqeel Ali: https://www.linkedin.com/in/a...
Onur Gungor, Founder & CEO at Allegory - PIR Ep. 862
Tony chats with Onur Gungor, Founder & CEO at Allegory, they are building the world's first AI-native predictive infrastructure for risk management, insurance, and reinsurance. AllegoryOS processes your data and predicts what happens next w...
Saurav BasuSaurav Basu, President & CEO at Exavalu and Chuck Gomez, Head of Exasure Product at Exavalu
On a very special episode of Profiles in Risk featuring our friends that are joining us at the Insurance Nerds reception at ITC, Monday 6 pm at Mandalay Bay, I chat with Saurav Basu and Chuck Gomez at Exavalu, a boutique tech services and profe...
Reda Jarir, Co-Founde & CEO at URLab - PIR Ep. 861
Tony chats with Reda Jarir, Co-Founde & CEO at URLab, they offer a new operating system for actuarial risk. It's a whole data platform/ecosystem including coding for actuaries. It includes an actuarial knowledge base and AI agents specifica...
Sunit Shah, Founder & CEO at Soteris - PIR Ep. 860
Tony chats with Sunit Shah, Founder & CEO at Soteris, historically insurance has been a probabilistic game of large numbers. We can't predict which policy is going to be unprofitable, but if we write enough policies of similar characteristi...
Santi Jaramillo, Co-Founder, Co-CEO & AI Transformation Lead at Pragmatico - PIR Ep. 859
Tony chats with Santi Jaramillo, Co-Founder, Co-CEO & AI Transformation Lead at Pragmatico. They embed a full AI function within client organizations to drive AI cultural change, leadership behaviors, and proficiency measurement that make A...
INTX - Special PIR Episode for ITC 2026
Robert Lewis, CEO and Devon Ellett, COO at INTX Insurance Software will be joining us for the Insurance Nerds Reception at ITC Monday, September 28 at 6 pm at Rhythm and Rifts. INTX they are the only platform built to run ceded and assumed rein...
Carl Ziade, Co-Founder at Gaya - PIR Ep. 858
Tony chats with Carl Ziade, Co-Founder at Gaya, they are focused on super copy, super paste for insurance agents, they have created a browser extension now being used by 300+ agencies. It helps agents quote in multiple carrier portals 3-5x fast...
Wayne Slavin, CEO at Sure - PIR Ep. 857
Tony chats with Wayne Slavin, CEO at Sure, they are a technology infrastructure company helping the world's biggest brands build insurance operations to serve their customers.Wayne Slavin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayneslavin/Sur...
Sean Steigerwald, Founder and CEO at CustomerIQ - PIR ep. 856
I chat with Sean Steigerwal, Founder and CEO at CustomerIQ, they are a revenue intelligence platform for agents and brokers to help speed up deal cycles and improve service. They do this by direct integration with their inbox, VOIP system, and ...
Alex Martin, Co-Founder & CEO at Clearspeed - PIR Ep. 855
Tony chats with Alex Martin, Co-Founder & CEO at Clearspeed, they came from the military side and developed a revolutionary technology that helps insurance organizations detect fraud and establish trust through analyzing signals in voice co...
Jay Bell, Author of The Goat in the Machine - PIR Special Edition
Tony chats with Jay Bell, long-time insurance executive and author of Author of The Goat in the Machine. Jay will be attending the Insurance Nerds Reception at ITC 2026 and will be signing copies of his book.Jay Bell: https://www.linked...
Jesse Benedick, CEO & Co-Founder at Chainmail Solutions - PIR Ep. 854
Tony chats with Jesse Benedick, CEO & Co-Founder at Chainmail Solutions, an insurtech MGA helping protect the gaps especially around hurricane deductibles using an IoT grid that helps verify the exact conditions at the property.Jess...
John Brunette - PIR Ep. 853
Tony chats with John Brunette, long-time insurance expert and insurance education consultant. We chat about his career, about the future of insurance talent, advice for the next generation, and more.John Brunette: https://www.linkedin.c...
Jeppe Norregaad, Founder at InReality - PIR Ep. 852
Tony chats with Jeppe Norregaard, Founder at InReality, a tech company that provides technology to guarantee something is real, a video, a photo, or anything digital. Security from glass to glass, from the camera to the final person seeing it t...
Karmina Szymanski, Head of Communications at District Cover - PIR Ep. 851
Tony chats with Karmina Szymanski, Head of Communications at District Cover about their Urban Risk Report, a deep dive report highlighting the growing insurance protection gap and capacity pullback affecting metropolitan business communities. A...
Sat Ramphal, Co-Founder & CEO at Maya AI - PIR Ep. 850
Tony chats with Sat Ramphal, Co-Founder & CEO at Maya AI, they are a conversational AI platform to help agents with retention and performance.Sat Ramphal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satramphal/Maya AI: https://mayaknows.com/
Craig Bender, CEO at InsureU2 - PIR Ep. 849
Tony chats with Craig Bender, CEO at InsureU2, they help insurance organizations through modernizing operations to improve performance and scale intelligently.Craig Bender: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-bender-6165a7183/InsureU2...
Rich Cooper, Global Head of Market Transformation at Fusion Risk Management - PIR Ep. 848
Rich Cooper, Global Head of Market Transformation at Fusion Risk Management, they provide an enterprise resilience platform used by most of the large carriers and much of the financial services industry. We discuss their newest Enterprise Resil...
Kevin Finn, Co-Founder and Reuben Vandeventer, Co-Founder and Head of Research at Tessera - PIR 847
Tony chats with Kevin Finn, Co-Founder and Reuben Vandeventer, Co-Founder and Head of Research at Tessera, the new product management operating system for P&C insurance.Kevin Finn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-finn-13b4852/...
Spencer McDonald, CEO at Expert Insured - PIR Ep. 846
Tony chats with Spencer McDonald, CEO at Expert Insured, a systems providers focused on MGAs, Wholesales, and Carriers. They offer a modern Policy Admin System at a priced that is reasonable from a startup MGA to organizations with 1,000+ emplo...