Tony chats with Sherif Germayel, CEO at Trufla Technology. Trufla amalgamates real-life insurance experience with technology to create tools that enhance the broker channel. Trufla’s aim is to be the technology that powers brokers to better compete and grow in an ever-evolving digital landscape. Trufla’s suite of products includes a mobile app and portal for customer service and engagement, lead management to increase sales and optimize ROI, and truWeb, a web platform designed to drive more lead...
Aug 03, 2023•29 min
Tony chats with Joseph Zaarour, RMI grad and Founder at iSolvRisk. Joseph is attempting to solve insurance risk management's biggest, hairiest most-difficult problem: talent! And they're doing it in an incredibly creative way. Don't miss this fascinating episode! Joseph Zaarour: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-zaarour-8769a6177/ iSolvRisk: https://www.isolvrisk.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/hAVCbXi4LE4
Aug 02, 2023•23 min
Tony chats with Bobby Touran, Co-Founder at Rainbow. They are a modern underwriting company focused on small businesses. They focus on underwriting by being very specialized, currently in the food and beverage industry, primarily restaurants. Bobby Touran: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-touran-782a6513/ Rainbow: https://www.userainbow.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/u0yfyzIeiak
Aug 01, 2023•25 min
Tony chats with Sivan Iram, Founder and CEO at Capitola, the world's smartest digital marketplace for commercial risk. They connect brokers and carriers using AI-based risk appetite matching to streamline the placement process. Sivan Iram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivaniram/ Capitola: https://www.capitola-ins.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/urANly_xon0
Jul 31, 2023•31 min
Tony chats with Misha Bleymaier-Farrish, insurance executive, consultant, and author of The GSD Factor. Misha's story is amazing and her book is an easy read, and incredibly motivating. This is a really fun episode you don't want to miss! Plus, the hats! Misha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishableymaierfarrish/ The GSD Factor: https://www.amazon.com/GSD-Factor-Confident-Professional-Empowerment/dp/B0C4G48SCR/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2TAKHUNDTS68Z&keywords=the+gsd+factor&qid=1688557712&sprefix...
Jul 28, 2023•49 min
Tony chats with Michael Derkacz about his illustrious insurance career. Michael brought 10 years of experience at American Express into insurance and thrived first at AIG, and then at Chubb and W.R. Berkley including a significant amount of international experience. He generously gives us some of his time to help the next generation grow their insurance career with fantastic advice! Michael Derkacz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-derkacz-6b4549113/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/5pw0W8bgf7...
Jul 27, 2023•35 min
Tony chats with Patrick Koeller, CTO at When Insurance - They are solving a MAJOR issue in the US employment market. When Insurance protects people's ability to afford Health Insurance in between jobs! They have built two products to achieve this. This is crucially important! Patrick Koeller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickkoeller/ When Insurance: https://www.forwhen.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/qnbhWk830jE
Jul 26, 2023•23 min
Tony chats with John Petitte, CEO and Jason Farrell, Chief Customer Officer at Amplifi Labs, a digital product development shop that helps other companies develop digital products. They help with UI/UX, infrastructure, machine learning, AI, and just about everything else on the development side. John Petitte: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpetitte/ Jason Farrell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-farrell-0713173/ Amplifi Labs: https://www.amplifilabs.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/lTsYSl3...
Jul 25, 2023•30 min
Tony chats with Matt Schmidt, about Ecopia IA. They work with the top Insurers to better understand their portfolios by providing them with location data. Ecopia's Building-Based Geocoding offers the first and only complete building footprint collection in the USA, paired with best-in-class address data. We leverage the most up-to-date geospatial imagery available to create a unique source of ground truth, ensuring that our data provides the most accurate representation of reality. Matt Schmidt:...
Jul 24, 2023•30 min
Two long-haired hippies chat about insurance careers. Sergi Ruiz was good in sales, very very good, and he was able to easily sell a product even great salespeople have a hard time selling: Life Insurance. This valuable skillset led him on a very fun adventure of a career in both insurance and now insurtech. Sergi Ruiz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergi-ruiz-b679ba8b/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/4Dwyskbi6G8
Jul 21, 2023•36 min
Five-time best-selling author and insurance/insurtech executive Bryan Falchuk joins Tony on Profiles in Risk, to talk about his latest book: The Future of Insurance Vol III - The Collaborators. There's just so much to say about this episode, I just can't make it justice. Just listen to it, you won't regret it! Bryan Falchuk: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanfalchuk/ The Future of Insurance Series: http://future-of-insurance.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/MR97A-d0HNA...
Jul 20, 2023•40 min
Tony chats with Cyrena Arnold, Meteorologist | 2019 TechProfessional of the Year | Union Leader 40 under 40 | Children's Book Author | Insurtech Leader. Cyrena: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wxcyrena/
Jul 19, 2023•35 min
Tony Chats with Tom Avery, Founder & CEO at Signal Sync, an insurance agency automation solution focused on small independent agencies with one location. Doing both AMS and CRM, and especially Agency Automation to help your independent agency be much more efficient. They have a strong focus on Benefits agencies. Tom Avery: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkavery/ Signal Sync: https://signal-sync.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/t_biN8krrAk
Jul 18, 2023•32 min
Tony chats with Nebra Barr, CEO and Founder at OnboardXi. They modernize, standardize, and digitize the (thus radically improve) the onboarding experience for the Life Insurance industry. Nedra Barr: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nedra-barr-28ab589b/ OnboardXi: https://www.onboardxi.io/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/R-_HWVKh2Js
Jul 17, 2023•23 min
Tony chats with Jess Dantice, Founder & CEO at Zenjuries. He used to run a Work Comp-focused agency and was disappointed with the experience his clients were getting. He created Zenjuries to improve the user experience through an app that fixes the 3 clogged arteries in the work comp process. Zenjuries can be licensed to any WC entity that wants a better user experience. They get 90% of claims submitted within 4 hours and significantly lower loss ratios and e-mods. Jess Dantice: https://www....
Jul 14, 2023•31 min
Nick Coenen, Principal and Co-Founder at Wikifri. Wikifri is a solution provider helping organizations innovate in the insurance space. They have the Insurance Business-Oriented Operating Model (iBOOM), Insurance Daylight Data Solution (IDDS) and other consulting services. Nick Coenen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickcoenen/ WikiFri: https://www.wikifri.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/Y5GniA6UlDc
Jul 13, 2023•24 min
I chat with Luis Pino, CEO and Founder at Agentero. Agentero is a tech-enabled insurance network helping both insurance carriers and independent insurance agents. They provide agents with market access and a state-of-the-art technology platform that streamlines their entire agency operation. They can quote, bind, request appointments, serve their clients, and more from the platform. Luis Pino: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-pino/ Agentero: https://www.agentero.com/ Video Version: https://youtu...
Jul 12, 2023•29 min
Tony chats with Diego Tanton, Founder and CEO at Invive. Invive is bringing insights from the science of aging to reimagine life insurance underwriting. Using AI, they help you bring the recent explosion of research into how people age at different rates, into your underwriting process. They recently graduated from the Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA). Read their white paper, to learn more about how their measure of biological age was more predictive of mortality risk than smoking status and c...
Jul 11, 2023•33 min
Tony chats with Nick Aube, Founder of Producer Systems. Nick helps agencies and producers better use the BOR in the sales process, create more opportunities, write more new business, and grow their commercial book. Nick Aube: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-aube/ Producer Systems: https://www.producer.systems/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/D8MV8JP9tjI
Jul 10, 2023•29 min
Tony chats with John Morlan, Founder & CEO at Smarter Risk. Smarter Risk is a self-serve software platform that automates the assessment, reporting, and development of risk control and safety programs for the express purpose that business owners can qualify for best rates and insurers can give their best prices. John Morlan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbmorlan/ Smarter Risk: https://www.smarterrisk.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/0sj-WbY9WYQ
Jul 07, 2023•26 min
Tony chats with Maggie Stys, CEO and Roberto Sicconi, CTO at Dreyev (Pronounced drive). Dreyev offers an in-vehicle “digital copilot” device that evaluates drivers for risky behavior. Through Computer Vision and Machine Learning, the Dreyev system analyzes driver conditions such as head pose and eyelid closure to detect distracted or drowsy driving and issues real-time alerts in the case of dangerous conditions. Maggie Stys: https://www.linkedin.com/in/malgorzatastys/ Roberto Sicconi: https://ww...
Jul 06, 2023•25 min
Tony chats with Ariel Elizarov and Alex Panait of Lazarus AI. This special episode recorded in-person at Insurtech Hartford was both fascinating, mind-blowing, and hilarious to record. You don't want to miss this one. Lazarus uses AI to bring your documents to life. Ariel Elizarov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arielelizarov/ Alex Panait: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-panait-5691571a/ Lazarus AI: https://www.lazarusforms.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/Xyq2rREZPUw...
Jul 05, 2023•27 min
Two passionate CPCU nerds chat about the designation and Stacy's adventure creating InsuranceExamGuides.com Stacy Trinh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacy-trinh/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/Ibwc4TFtm10
Jul 03, 2023•46 min
The prodigal older brother returns home. Tony chats with Nick Lamparelli, the original voice of Profiles in Risk, two-time insurtech co-founder, and Co-Founder and Head of Product at Green Shield Risk Solutions. Green Shield helps communities apply best-in-class risk management to LOWER their catastrophe loss risk! Nick Lamparelli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicklamparelli/ Green Shield Risk Solutions: https://www.greenshieldrisk.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/XtmBKRfYR4U...
Jun 30, 2023•33 min
Tony chats with Clay Olsen, CEO and Founder and CEO at Impact Suite. Mental health is radically important for your people, and especially for your Millennial and Gen Z employees. Providing access to great mental health prevention services and crisis treatment has historically been very hard for small businesses like insurance agencies, to provide. That's why Insure Equality is very proud to partner with Impact Suite, a fantastic and fantastically cost-effective solution you can offer your people...
Jun 29, 2023•20 min
Tony chats with Max McClure of Steadily, they provide modern landlord insurance. Max McClure: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-mcclure-b8a72736/ Steadily: https://www.steadily.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/ec8HegINlKE
Jun 28, 2023•24 min
Tony chats with Margeaux Gilex, CEO at IRYS Insurtech. IRYS is a microservice and API-based management platform for insurance brokers and distribution (AMS and more). The very guiding principal of IRYS is an AMS that embraces connectivity and doesn't hold your data hostage. Video Version: https://youtu.be/fLaCHmBP57I
Jun 27, 2023•29 min
Tony chats with Tanya Coburn, VP of Marketing and Communications at Trufla Technology, and the brain behind Amplify Broker Tech Fest, an exclusive two-day in-person event in Calgary, Alberta that brings together thought leaders in technology, insurtech, data, AI, brokertech, and so much more. If you're an agent/broker or a broker-facing-insurtech in Canada or the US, you should consider this conference: Amplify Broker Tech Fest: https://www.trufla.com/amplify/...
Jun 27, 2023•17 min
Tony chats with Andrew Martin, CEO of DynaRisk. Cyber intelligence company that does Risk Management tools for consumers, Cyber Risk Management tools for businesses, and Portfolio Monitoring Solutions for insurers, reinsurers and MGAs to help improve their Loss Ratios. Andrew Martin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjm/ DynaRisk: https://www.dynarisk.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/a1_cqvbl2_w
Jun 26, 2023•28 min
Tony chats with Will Ross, Co-Founder and CEO at Federato. Bringing concepts from portfolio optimization and mixing them with AI and Machine Learning, Federato's RiskOps is an underwriting platform for carriers, MGAs and MGUs providing real-time risk selection and portfolio insights to empower underwriters to balance their book of business and make better underwriting decisions. Will Ross: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamross826/ Federato: https://www.federato.ai/ Video Version: https://youtu...
Jun 23, 2023•22 min
