Tony chats with Adam Bowe, Founder at Cake. Cake is a transactional marketplace for independent agencies to buy and sell books of business, not only full books of business but they can also transact in fractional books of business. This still is amazing and truly 🤯! Maybe you can have your 🎂 and eat it too! Adam Bowe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adambowe/ Cake: https://www.haveyourcake.com/ YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/LuHAk7W1CfU
Sep 22, 2023•35 min
Tony chats with Jeff Tyler and Suman Palit at Insurance Quantified and Groundspeed Analytics. Submission IQ by Insurance Quantified uses data science at the top of funnel, streamlining the underwriting desk helping underwriters make decisions faster and quote faster. Groundspeed delivers intelligent document processing. Together they create an incredible combination. Suman Palit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumanpalit/ Jeff Tyler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-tyler-bb824a3/ YouTube Version: ...
Sep 21, 2023•35 min
Tony chats with Jordan Peace, Co-Founder and CEO at Fringe. They asked themselves if we got to start over with benefits how would we do them thinking outside the box. What if day-to-day services like Uber, Airbnb, Spotify could be offered as benefits to increase retention? Fringe is basically a marketplace of a bunch of services, where employers can fund individual accounts for their employees and allow they to buy the services that are most important to them. Jordan Peace: https://www.linkedin....
Sep 20, 2023•30 min
Tony chats with Mike Koscielny, long-time insurance executive, former President of the CPCU Society, and author of Born2Lead. We chat about Mike's iconic career, his incredible role at the CPCU Society as mentor to my entire generation, and his new book about leadership. So much to learn from this episode and the book: Mike: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-koscielny-mba-cpcu-cic-3424985/ Born2Lead: https://Born2Lead.net Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzm1CRZAe30...
Sep 15, 2023•43 min
Tony chats Joanne Artesani, Founder and CEO at Sproutr. An insurance design and build firm. They do the actual building of insurance products including the appetite and guidelines. They help founders articulate their vision into actionable pieces. They can handle rate, rule, and form drafting. The entire architecture of the vision and the goal. More than anything they help insurance/insurtech visionaries support their vision. Joanne Artesani: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanne-artesani-insurance...
Sep 14, 2023•36 min
David and Tony have both been through layoffs in their insurance careers. In this episode, they share how they handled the job searches and attached emotions during difficult times. We're here for you! Video Version: https://youtu.be/aj_CVnwXOCc
Sep 13, 2023•50 min
Tony chats with Gus Calderon, Co-Founder at FireWatch. They create detailed aerial maps of location and condition of all the vegation in a community. Then they break it down with GIS software and create individual defensible space maps for all the homes in the community. This is very important in California and other wildfire-prone states. They can quantify the amount of vegetation and use multi-spectral imaging which allows them to determine plant health which is VERY important for wildfire haz...
Sep 08, 2023•27 min
Tony chats with recurring guest Bryan Falchuk, CEO at PLRB about his reinvigoration of PLRB. They are a claims advisory organization that provides a myriad of resources to claims professionals at member carriers in the US. 80% of premium in the US is handled by PLRB members and PLRB supports them in making sure the coverage is delivered correctly. They provide weather data, building codes, coverage advice, and much more that can save your carrier a ton of money. They also host fantastic claims c...
Sep 07, 2023•32 min
Tony chats with Scott Knowles, CEO & Co-Founder at Loss Scan, they help take difficult to extract data from PDFs and turn it into live data. This is especially useful for Loss Runs, giving underwriters, brokers, and MGAs the ability to easily import loss runs into their systems for proper analysis. Scott Knowles: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-knowles-03998a7/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/wKZ2ro9dr1o
Sep 06, 2023•30 min
Tony chats with Giri Laveti, CEO at Assuretrac. They help insurance agencies increase agent's happiness and cut servicing costs. Giri Laveti: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giri-laveti-461b01193/ Assuretrac: https://assuretrac.com/
Sep 04, 2023•13 min
Tony chats with Brett McKenzie, Insurance PR, Marketing, Resume, and LinkedIn Expert about her new solopreneur endeavors helping the insurance community communicate better. Don't miss out on the opportunity to have her help with your personal and professional brand! Brett McKenzie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettashleymckenzie/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/AkrKL2Vgov0
Sep 02, 2023•32 min
Tony chats with Andrew Filar, Co-Founder at Next Call Club and CEO at Peachy Insurance. While Tony spent 10 years talking about how the captive agent model was dying, Andrew quietly proved him wrong, and blew his mind. In 9 years Andrew went from brand new out of college to CEO of the largest Allstate agent in the country, to creating his own agency, growing it from scratch to $5M in 3 years, and creating his own consulting firms to help other exclusive agencies do the same. WHAT?!?!?! If you're...
Aug 30, 2023•46 min
Tony chats with Yaron Dycian, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at WINT Water Intelligence. They specialize in managing water in buildings which comes in through dumb pipes and is used by dumb valves and faucets. It's an unmanaged resource! Managing water is becoming a serious issue, even in the developed world. Unbelievably, about 25% of all water in a building is wasted because of death by a thousand cuts! Water damage in buildings is one of the very highest causes of property losses and WINT...
Aug 29, 2023•25 min
Tony chats with Dave Connors, Co-Founder and CEO at DistriBind. They are curing the insurance industry of our spreadsheet addiction, a data exchange platform with a special focus on delegated authority. They provide a lot of validation, data cleansing, and most importantly validation to provide a lot of much-needed certainty. Dave Connors: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveconnorsinsurtech/ DistriBind: https://www.distribind.io/ YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/PX7Ep7X-Jho...
Aug 28, 2023•23 min
Nick Lamparelli is back in a new leading role as Managing Partner of Insurance Nerds. On today's episode, we announce massive changes to Insurance Nerds that will be rolling out over the Fall of 2023 and into 2024 turning us into much more than we have been in the past, and into a much more unified platform for #insurance learning, community, and career growth! Nick Lamparelli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicklamparelli/ Insurance Nerds: https://InsNerds.com Video Version: https://youtu.be/1Cexk...
Aug 25, 2023•24 min
Tony chats with Andrew Engler, Co-Founder and CEO at Kettle. They're aiming to be a different Kettle of fish with an incredible mission of being the biggest safety net to the world against climate change through insurance and reinsurance. They're a reinsurance MGA and a micro-reinsurer. This is one incredible episode. Andrew Engler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericandrewengler/ Kettle: https://ourkettle.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/A9V53GmobtI
Aug 24, 2023•44 min
Tony has a super fun and fascinating conversation with former Google Product Manager, now Co-Founder and CEO at Coverage Cat. Young founders are just so fun, and this one is brilliant. A very fun episode! Miaw! 🐈 Coverage Cat is the new way for personal consumers to properly insure themselves. They are a data-driven broker that matches consumers TO THE RIGHT COVERAGE, not just the cheapest price. Yes Please! Max Cho: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxrcho/ Coverage Cat: https://coveragecat.com/ Vi...
Aug 23, 2023•39 min
Tony chats with Bill Haber, Co-Founder at TEKRiSQ. They're focused on helping independent agencies and the carriers and MGAs they work with to better streamline the process of engaging clients in technology-oriented risks. They're very focused on Cyber, one of the fastest-growing lines of business. We shouldn't ask agents (or business owners) to be part-time Cyber Security Experts. This is way too important of a line of coverage to get wrong! TEKRiSQ can help you get the most reliable informatio...
Aug 22, 2023•29 min
Tony chats with David Watson CEO and Founder at RiskAdvisor, a platform that is basically a "souped up intake form" helping personal lines agents take that conversation and simplifies it and guides it. It ensures you collect clean, accurate data and distribute it wherever you need it. David Watson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agentdavidwatson/ RiskAdvisor: https://riskadvisor.insure/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/NaTJpFq1PSM
Aug 21, 2023•30 min
Tony chats with Paul Monasterio, CEO and Co-Founder at Kalepa. They are dedicated to enhancing underwriting performance and driving profitable premium growth for the commercial insurance industry. Kalepa's AI-powered Copilot software enables underwriters to focus their time on the highest ROI opportunities and to quickly evaluate and optimally select risk. Paul Monasterio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-monasterio-412a308/ Kalepa: https://www.kalepa.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/OeVw_gR...
Aug 18, 2023•40 min
Tony chats with Jeff Hirst - Soft Risk and Professional Empowerment Institute. We chat about Risk Management, Insurance careers, managing people, growing your career, his concept of Soft Risk Management, and so much more. A GREAT listen! Jeff Hirst: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhirst100/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/yhcoVR4jwus
Aug 17, 2023•30 min
Tony chats with Elliot Bassett, Co-Founder at Rocketship Ventures Launch, a software platform that helps a producer walk through their sales process using an assessment based process. It's super efficient and gives them a variety of ways to differentiate theirselves in the marketplace. It provides an objective scoring mechanism you can share with the client and tools and charts to help improve the account. Super cool stuff! For high Ds: Fast forward to 4:30. Elliot Bassett: https://www.linkedin....
Aug 16, 2023•26 min
Tony chats with Silvia Diaz-Roa, Co-Founder at ClaimDeck, a cloud base platform that brings the claims professional and the legal professional into a shared space to collaborate transparently and in real-time on claims. Claims litigation has seen little innovation because it requires so much domain knowledge on both the claims and the legal side. ClaimDeck aims to close that gap. Silvia Diaz-Roa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdiazroa/ Claim Deck: https://www.claim-deck.com/ Video Version: https:/...
Aug 15, 2023•34 min
Tony chats with Rod Powell, insurance agent and author of "Black Pioneers of the American Insurance Industry". We absolutely love author interviews and this one really blew us away! Rod Powell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarrard-a-rod-powell-sr-rebc-clcs-86801616/ Black Pioneers of the American Insurance Industry: https://amzn.to/3OodDHu Video Version: https://youtu.be/P-tWLtZc3lw
Aug 14, 2023•37 min
I chat with Caden Braly, CEO at AgentsTech. They are an insurtech consulting firm that helps independent insurance brokerages while uniquely bringing together technology consulting and business consulting. Dear agency, what's keeping you up at night? AgentsTech can help and they GET insurance because they grew up in our industry and still run an agency today. Cade Braly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caden-braly-699288154/ AgentsTech: https://agentstech.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/gEH1m6d...
Aug 11, 2023•42 min
Tony chats with Scott Ham, CEO at Pinpoint Predictive, they provide the P&C industry with the earliest and most accurate lost predictions and risk scores from just a name and address, enabling carriers to fast-track profitable growth. This is some very impressive to help you grow intelligently! Scott Ham: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottham1/ Pinpoint Predictive: https://pinpointpredictive-20366300.hs-sites.com/contactus https://youtu.be/j4sfjbv6QTA
Aug 10, 2023•26 min
Tony chats with Samir Ahmed, Principal Insurance Markets at X by 2, an IT consultancy focused on high-impact projects for a select group of insurance and healthcare organizations. They specialize in big hairy audacious challenging projects. Samir Ahmed: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samir-u-ahmed/ X by 2: https://xby2.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/ofgqTVrLEhk
Aug 09, 2023•24 min
Tony chats with Micah Kalisch, Founder and CEO at Chrp Technologies. They offer complete home risk prevention through an insurtech app that is built for underwriters and insurance carriers to mitigate risks on the front end of the underwriting process. Including guided self-inspections, which run through their proprietary AI/ML models and produce result that helps streamline the underwriting process. Micah Kalisch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micah-kalisch-86250a218/ Chrp Technologies: https://c...
Aug 08, 2023•21 min
Tony chats with Louis DiModugno, "The Bowtie Data Guy". We met at Insurtech Hartford and we just had to have him on the show. Louis helps create and establish data strategies for companies without a full professional data organization. If you don't have an army of data scientists and data engineers, Louis can help you get going! Louis DiModugno: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisdimodugno/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/8npPUx4yoJM
Aug 07, 2023•37 min
Tony chats with Meredith Barnes-Cook after 33 years at Liberty Mutual started her own little consulting firm focused on helping both insurtechs and carriers. An incredible career story and lots of lessons to learn! I learned a ton in this conversation. Also, what's the Trucker Hat Gang?!? Meredith Barnes-Cook: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithbarnes-cook/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/YadXiQaCCHY
Aug 04, 2023•33 min
