Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH95KV4zdS8 Tony chats with Steve Lekas and Joe Emison, Co-Founders at Branch about their full-stack home and auto insurtech carrier and much more wonderful nerding out about insurance. I was very impressed by them! Steve Lekas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-lekas/ Joe Emison: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemastersemison/ Branch: https://www.ourbranch.com/...
May 09, 2022•49 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OjxicJ5-80 Tony chats with Beau Bratton, Founder and CEO at Ricochet360. We go a bit deep on different types of dialers work and how their software gives even small agents superpowers for their outbound sales efforts. Very interesting stuff, I had no idea that this level of sophistication was available outside of very large call centers. Beau Bratton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beaubratton/ Ricochet360: https://www.ricochet360.com/...
May 09, 2022•43 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBK4EnZTprU Tony chats with Ryne Ring, Head of Insurance at Bunker, an insurtech turned agency who has "resurrected". Ryne Ring: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryne-ring-2418b22a/ Bunker: https://enterprise.buildbunker.com/...
May 09, 2022•22 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RKXwIH-xW4 Tony chats with Steve Anderson, Co-Founder & CEO at Catalyit about how he was tapped on the shoulder by a group of state Big I associations and ended up creaitng Catalyit, which is dedicated to helping insurance agencies and brokerages to discover, evaluate, select and finally implement the technologies needed to thrive going forward. One of the biggest challenges brokerages face is figuring out which of the literally thousands of te...
May 09, 2022•29 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dfTqebfM24 Tony Chats with John Warren, a life-long Life Insurance experience who has been playing in the intersection between life insurance and insurtech. We talk about Life, Annuities, etc distribution in the modern environment, what he has learned rolling out 3 platforms at different carriers and why insurance is a wonderful industries. John Warren: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrwarren/...
May 09, 2022•33 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH4jvZJs2sQ Tony chats with Matthew Sutika, Chief Insurance Officer at Obie about how and why Obie decided to improve the insurance options for landlords who own multiple dwellings. Matthew Sutika: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-sutika-a9a98013a/ Obie: https://www.obierisk.com/...
May 09, 2022•21 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNIDJRdHsiE Nick chats with Laura Gregory about insurance litigation. Originally recorded for the Yellow Book Podcast but now released under the Profiles in Risk umbrella. Laura Gregory: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-gregory/...
Apr 22, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtucmcSHlsg&t=222s Tony chats with Adam Keifer, CEO & Co-Founder at Talage, a complete digital distribution platform for small commercial insurance. Adam Keifer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamkiefer/ Talage: https:// www.talageins.com...
Apr 22, 2022•25 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AG3FGmjhKs Tony chats with David McFarland, Founder and CEO at Coterie, an insurance manufacturer who works with both traditional and non-traditional distribution partners with a strong focus in the small commercial space. David McFarland: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmcfarland23/ Coterie: https://coterieinsurance.com/...
Apr 22, 2022•23 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG1CJxdgjFs Tony chats with Jeff Shi, long time agent and now CEO at QuoteHound, which helps agents strategically manage leads in a more effective way. Jeff Shi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffshiva/ QuoteHound: https://www.quotehound.com/...
Apr 22, 2022•23 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTnza9xvy4 Tony chats with Andrew Wynn, Co-Founder at Ascend, a modern all-in one payment system built for insurance, even E&S and premium finance! Andrew Wynn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wynnandrewj/ Ascend: https://www.UseAscend.com...
Apr 22, 2022•20 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLLf9pvBzOE Tony chats with Dan Woods, CEO at Socotra, the first truly modern core insurance system that is truly cloud. Socotra is used by many insurtech MGAs as their policy admin and underwriting system. I learned a lot in this conversation. Don't miss it! Dan Woods: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danwoods1/ Socotra: https://www.socotra.com/...
Apr 13, 2022•32 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I3_Z2DPVtQ Tony chats with Hugues Bertin, CEO at Digital Insurance LatAm about the Latin America Insurtech space. Hugues Bertin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bertinhugues/ Digital Insurance LatAm: https://www.digitalinsurance.lat/...
Apr 13, 2022•26 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VvnG0WOrcY Tony chats with Brendan Corr of The Loss Run Pros about this weirdly inefficient part of the insurance process and how they're helping agencies get loss runs much more efficiently. Brendan Corr: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenden-corr-75a17013/ Loss Run Pros: https://www.lossrunpro.com/...
Apr 13, 2022•18 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGirxhfnfjc Tony chats with Patrick Zerarka, CEO at EzyTise about how they help #insurance agencies with their sales and marketing automation system. Patrick Zerarka: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickzerarka/ EzyTise: https://ezytise.com/...
Apr 07, 2022•26 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLCbFQCIF8U&t=2s Tony chats with David Fontain, Founder and CEO at Foresight about their recent fundraising, the future of insurtech, the planned expansion of Foresight and more! David Fontain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidfontain/ Foresight: https://getforesight.com/...
Apr 07, 2022•24 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__TGVmutEbw Tony chats with Michael Pallas, Co-Founder at Flow Flood Insurance about Flood, Biggert-Waters, Flood 2.0 and what it's like to get an insurtech off of the ground. Michael Pallas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpallas/ Flow Flood: https://flowinsurance.com/...
Apr 07, 2022•28 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgrFDUzgBw8 I chat with Kelly Wade and Diana DePaola at Staff Boom. They can help agencies and MGAs outsource some of your service needs. Kelly Wade: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-wade-141596157/ Diana DePaola: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-depaola-b0b3a45a/ Staff Boom: https://www.staffboom.com/...
Apr 07, 2022•32 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuurh-W-2aY Tony chats with Jocelyn Getson about Bindable, an insurtech and digital brokerage firm transforming the embedded and affinity insurance business Jocelyn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelyn-getson/ Bindable: https://bindable.com/...
Apr 04, 2022•26 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLiwVc7i_LY Tony chats with Sergey Litvinenko, Co-Founder and CEO at Koop Technologies about autonomous vehicles and how Koop can help carriers deal with this new world. Sergey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergey-from-koop/ Koop: https://www.koop.ai/
Apr 04, 2022•27 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkeeHOI7h0c Darren Bloomfield chats with Julian Sylestro about his experience in Cyber, both insurance and response. https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrsylvestro/
Apr 04, 2022•40 min
Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS8Qm-rFfmI Tony chats with Peter Velardi, CEO at ReferMe IQ about the importance of referrals, and most importantly how to make sure the behaviors that we know lead to referrals never get missed. Peter Velardi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/psvelardi/ ReferMe IQ: https://www.refermeiq.com/...
Apr 01, 2022•30 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipgZy6pZITk I chatted with Peter MacDonald about Wunderite's mission to be the very best tool for independent agents and brokers to collaboratively fill out insurance applications (including supplementals and schedules). Created by brokers, for brokers, and a graduate of the BrokerTech accelerator. In this fun chat we talked about insurance, farms, petting zoos, going through two accelerators at once, and how to choose the right accelerator. Peter: ...
Apr 01, 2022•28 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWI1zxTT6nM Tony chats with Charles Merritt, Co-Founder and CEO at Buddy, the insurance gateway for people who build software. They give product teams and developers who are being tasked with integrating insurance APIs inside of applications which helps accelerate distribution of digital insurance products. Charles: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesmerritt/ Buddy: https://buddy.insure/...
Mar 24, 2022•24 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YarMk2dd6f8 Tony chats with Frank Sentner about his lifetime of experience in the insurance technology space since the late 1970s. A great conversation about the history, present and future of insurance technology in the agency space. Frank Sentner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franksentner/
Mar 23, 2022•53 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBYBQpfRycY Tony chats with Andrew Jernigan, CEO at Insured Nomads about the international health insurance market and how Covid radically changed the world of nomads. Andrew Jernigan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjernigan/ Insured Nomads: https://www.insurednomads.com/...
Mar 23, 2022•28 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCy85UcyFGk&t=89s Tony chats with Aaron Mikulsky, former insurance executive and operations expert about his career, his consulting company and about leadership in general. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chicagomikulsky/
Mar 23, 2022•38 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0iKmH1ON5E Tony chats with Kevin Abramson, President at Cover Whale, an insurtech MGA transforming the commercial auto industry using data to make the road safer and save lives. Kevin Abramson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-abramson-7175915/ Cover Whale: https://www.coverwhale.com/
Mar 21, 2022•21 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJbC6hX5xfE Chatted with Assaf Henkin, President at Sproutt, a very cool life insurance platform that is modernizing the application process which historically has been beyond painful. Assaf Henkin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahenkin/ Sproutt: https://sproutt.com/...
Mar 21, 2022•25 min
Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTmFst3qkk I met Karina at CPCU In-2-Risk. 2021 and was impressed by her passion for the surety bonds side of insurance. We finally got together to record a video about careers in the surety side of the industry. Karina Plus: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karinafic/
Mar 21, 2022•27 min