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Profiles in Risk

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The largest insurtech podcast going on 500+ episodes. This is not your grandpa's insurance industry!

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Episodes

Luis Diaz, Founder & CEO at ClaimMentor - PIR Ep. 676

Tony chats with Luis Diaz, Founder & CEO at ClaimMentor, they are a reimagined solution for claims recoreded statements handling everything from scheduling to an intelligent summary of the meeting. Your average adjuster spends 2 to 2/12 hours per day just on scheduling calls. That gets automated with ClaimMentor. They then guide the adjuster on what to ask and especially feeds the adjuster the right followup question that a senior adjuster would know to ask. Luis Diaz: https://www.linkedin.c...

May 13, 202540 min

David Schraub - Ep. 673

Tony chats with David Schraub, a credentialed actuary in both the US and Europe, who now runs a consulting firm specializing in AI ethics. A fascinating episode that is embarrassingly late in being released. David Schraub: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidschraub/ David Schraub Actuarial Consultancy: https://www.davidschraubactuary.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/FwVW5CoPlc0

May 13, 202528 min

Yandy Plasencia, Founder & CEO at DataHaven Software - PIR Ep. 675

Tony chats with Yandy Plasencia, Founder & CEO at DataHaven Software, they are a core infrastructure company solving the foundational data problem. They live in the intersection of carriers and TPAs. Core focus on making sure the foundational data they make sure there are no data silo. If there is no fully automated data lakehouse yet, they can build it for you in an automated way. They offer a fully managed solution focused on the $200M to $700M in Annual Recurring Revenue regionals and sup...

May 12, 202534 min

Paul Richardson, Founder & CEO at Tumbleweed - PIR Ep. 672

Tony chats with Paul Richardson, Founder & CEO at Tumbleweed, they are a digital solution to help support comprehensive legacy planning under the tagline that a life well planned is a life well lived. Paul Richardson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulhrichardsonjr/ Tumbleweed: https://tumbleweedplan.com/ Video version: https://youtu.be/An6YYyTBH8M

May 09, 202536 min

Wendy Davis Johnson, Author of Brian Duperrealt Biography - PIR Ep. 671

Tony chats with Wendy Davis Johnson, Author of "Faith & Purpose: The Life and Vision of Insurance Icon Brian Duperrealt. A cannot miss conversation about the most important insurance biography of our time. Wendy Davis Johnson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-davis-johnson-b2040a34/ Faith & Purpose: https://duperreaultbio.com/how-to-order-faith-purpose/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/z_SAzTGvBYs

May 09, 202544 min

Rick Pannu, Co-Founder and CEO at Trajan AI - PIR Ep. 670

Tony chats with Rick Pannu, Co-Founder and CEO at Trajan AI, they profile risks specially construction risks for WC, GL, Builder's Risk, Wraps, and more. They build AI Agents for underwriting and auditing of construction risk. Currently construction risks are underwritten mostly from historical losses with very little being used from the application because they don't trust the data on the application. Trajan's framework is focused on deterministic answers to application questions and underwriti...

May 09, 202532 min

Josh Schlessinger, President, CEO & CoFounder at Continue On - PIR Ep. 670

Tony chats with Josh Schlesinger, President, CEO & CoFounder at Continue On, it started as a SAAS platform licensed to auto insurance companies to disrupt the rental reimbursement space using Uber and Lyft instead. They have since transitioned instead of offering it as part of the claims process, now it's offered as Continued Mobility for side of the road situations to get the insured off the side of the road quickly. Traditional roadside assistance picks up your car, but doesn't get you hom...

May 01, 202537 min

Will Ross, CEO and Co-Founder at Federato - PIR Ep. 669

Tony catches up with Will Ross, CEO and Co-Founder at Federato about two incredible new products Federato is launching. Federato is an underwriting platform focused on helping organization win the right deals faster and help you systematize winning. Will digs deep into their two new products: Submission Triage and Orchestrate. Will Ross: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamross826/ Federato: https://www.federato.ai/ Prio episode of Federato: https://youtu.be/0cY7D_uFO1w Video Version: https://you...

Apr 30, 202522 min

Mark Miller, Founder at InsureVision.AI - PIR Ep. 668

Tony chats with Mark Miller, Founder at InsureVision.AI, they are a state of the art transformer AI which turns video into a measure of risk which helps you understand driver claims, improve driver quality, save lives, save money, and make your community safer. Mark Miller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-miller-81a89b149/ InsureVision.AI: https://insurevision.ai/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/YQk6heUL_3w

Apr 29, 202534 min

Dan Roselli and Sara Garces Roselli at Rev Tech Labs - PIR Ep. 667

Tony chats with Dan Roselli and Sara Garces Roselli at Rev Tech Labs, a vertically focused fintech and insurtech accelerator program. They are on cohort 22! They recruit people from all over the world to start their business and grow! Dan Roselli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielroselli/ Sara Garces Roselli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarag1/ Rev Tech Labs: https://www.revtechlabs.co/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/692vdlIbrWw

Apr 29, 202525 min

Arvind Sontha, Founder and CEO at Kyber - PIR Ep. 665

Tony chats with Arvind Sontha, Founder and CEO at Kyber, AI native document generation and delivery platform that helps claims teams instantly draft, review, and send claims forms and correspondence, especially complex claims letters. Then you backstop that with a full highly auditable, deeply transparent, integrated real-time collaborative editor, review workflow and it manages the whole process. A conversation you should not miss! Arvind Sontha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arvind-sontha/ Kyber...

Apr 24, 202550 min

Kyle Geoghan, Co-Founder and CEO at Indemn - PIR Ep. 664

Kyle Geoghan, Co-Founder and CEO at Indemn, an AI agents platform focused solely on insurance enabling MGAs, insurance carriers, and brokerages to build AI agents that people can call, text, or email to help with sales and service workloads. This is not only an amazing technology, but also an amazing conversation. You don't want to miss this one! Kyle Geoghan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylegeoghan/ Indemn: https://www.indemn.ai/ Video version: https://youtu.be/2F4mT0n1bOg...

Apr 24, 202550 min

NavaJeevan Rajaiah, Founder & CEO at InsOps - PIR Ep. 663

Tony chats with NavaJeevan Rajaiah, Founder & CEO at InsOps, an insurtech focused on helping P&C insurers fully transition data away from legacy systems. They help their customers sunset their legacy system by taking their data from the old system and seamlessly putting it into the modern platform of their choice. Using AI they do it exponentially faster and more cost effectively and can get you to the point where you can actually pull the plug on the old AS/400! NavaJeevan Rajaiah: http...

Apr 22, 202535 min

Catrin Townsend, Director of Education at PriceWriters and Author - PIR Ep. 662

Catrin Townsend, Director of Education at PriceWriters and Author of "A Risky Business: An Actuary's Guide to Quantifying and Managing Risk in Society". We talk about her career, how she fell in love with insurance, especially the actuarial profession, and her book. Catrin Townsend: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catrin-townsend-608b44234/ A Risky Business: https://amzn.to/4irPTzm Price Writers: https://pricewriters.com/ Prior Episode about Price Writers: https://youtu.be/K9Wnp-MnVEs?si=y8gAXVI4O-i...

Apr 21, 202536 min

Shannon Elsea, Founder SettlementDoneEasy - PIR Ep. 661

Tony chats with Shannon Elsea, Founder SettlementDoneEasy. Checks have largely disappeared in the regular economy, but they continue to be the norm in paying out insurance settlements in attorney-represented claims. The process hasn't changed much in decades and that's what SettlementDoneEasy fixes. Last year in the US, over $1 billion worth of checks were stolen in the snail mail and sold on the dark web. 55% of all paper checks written last year were written by insurance carriers! SettlementDo...

Apr 18, 202524 min

Jack Miller, Co-Founder and CEO at nettle - PIR Ep. 660

Tony chats with Jack Miller, Co-Founder and CEO at nettle, they work in commercial insurance helping underwrite large assets like factories, marine vessels or oil rig by enabling the Risk Engineering process to be done much more efficiently and effectively. Jack Miller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-nettle/ nettle: https://www.getnettle.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/OpaQv5Mw1Pc

Apr 17, 202526 min

Mike Gulla, CEO and Co-Founder, Adaptive Insurance - PIR Ep 659

Tony chats with Mike Gulla, CEO and Co-Founder, Adaptive Insurance, they are an AI technology platform that is creating climate resiliency products for commercial businesses across the US. Starting with a suite of parametric products allowing customers to get short duration products for different things that will impact the financial resilience of their business . Mike Gulla: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gulla-32299749/ Adaptive Insurance: https://www.adaptiveinsurance.com/ Video version:...

Apr 16, 202537 min

Amy Cooper, Founder at RISE - Rising Insurance Star Executives - PIR Ep. 658

Tony chats with Amy Cooper, Founder at RISE, about the upcoming RISE Leadership Summit & Award Gala in Fort Lauderdale and so much more about this incredible organization! Amy Cooper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-sarah-cooper/ RISE Leadership Summit & Award Gala: https://riseprofessionals.com/events/2025-leadership-summit-awards-gala/ RISE: https://riseprofessionals.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/tZna3bCi88U

Apr 15, 202525 min

Jon Lincoln - PIR Ep. 657

Tony chats with Jon Lincoln who had a couple of successful insurtech exits and is now running a successful startup in the ecommerce/non-profit space about everything he learned along the way. What an episode! This one is a cannot miss! Jon Lincoln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonlincoln/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/3IbPa-b2HE4

Apr 14, 20251 hr 2 min

Adam Chadroff, Principal Insurance at Equal Ventures - Ep. 656

Tony chats with Adam Chadroff, Principal Insurance at Equal Ventures about the upcoming Insurance Capital Summit coming up in NYC on May 8th Adam Chadroff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-chadroff/ Insurance Capital Summit: https://www.ics.equal.vc/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/PDG0yolbdes

Apr 11, 202516 min

CJ Hutsenger, Co-Founder at Referral Radar - PIR Ep. 655

Tony chats with CJ Hutsenger, Co-Founder at Referral Radar, an incredible new tools built for insurance agents, by insurance agents, helping them find referral partners. Not just referral partners, but the right referral partners. Every real estate agent and mortgage broker talks a big game on instagram and facebook, they kind of have to, but that's no good to your agency if you can't figure out who actually has business to refer to you and the right kind of business. Now you can figure it out, ...

Apr 10, 202526 min

Christian Brindle, CEO of Seven Figures Medicare Training - PIR Ep. 654

Christian Brindle, CEO of Seven Figures Medicare Training, Lead Heroes, Hire Heroes, and the Seven Figure Medicare Summit. They help medicare focused agencies in all sorts of ways. Started with his own agency, and then growing by helping other agencies. Seven Figure Medicare Training provides training and a giant facebook group. Then they merged with a leads company, a marketing company, and a virtual assistant company: Lead Heroes and Hire Heroes. Ultimately they provide: 1. Extremely high leve...

Apr 09, 202550 min

Rashmi Melgiri, Co-Founder and CEO at Functional Finance - PIR Ep. 653

Tony chats with Rashmi Melgiri, Co-Founder and CEO at Functional Finance, an automated finops platform for the P&C industry. They simplify and unify all things related to financial management for insurance companies. Insurance is full of manual reconciliation processes, but it doesn't have to be! Rashmi Melgiri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melgiri/ Functional Finance: https://www.functionalfi.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/hp2QFiQcZUs

Apr 08, 202524 min

The Society of Insurance Research (SIR) and their Annual Conference - PIR Ep. 652

Tony chats with Amelia Fitch and Jennifer Chase about The Society of Insurance Research (SIR) and their upcomming Annual Conference May 4-6th in Chicago, IL. I had never heard of SIR and I'm so excited to learn about this organization. Whether you're "big R" Research (with the word in your job title) or "little r" research (the kind we all do), if you love the intersection of side of insurance and research, this is your tribe! SIR Conference 2025: https://www.sirnet.org/SIR/SIR/Events/2025_Annua...

Apr 07, 202520 min

Jim Sorebo, Positivity Warrior, Author & Speaker - PIR Ep. 651

Tony chats with Jim Sorebo, Positivity Warrior, Author & Speaker about his life and his new book "Positivity Warrior: Strength through sorrow. How a positive outlook can heal, inspire, and change your life." This is a wonderful and inspiring episode about Jim's difficult journey and how he turned it into a force for good. A cannot miss episode! Jim Sorebo (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimsorebo/ Jim's author and speaker website: https://www.jimsorebo.com/ Positivity Warrior book: h...

Mar 27, 202534 min

Tom Wetzel, President of Thomas H. Wetzel and Associates - PIR Ep. 650

Tony chats with Tom Wetzel, President of Thomas H. Wetzel and Associates. Tom educates agents on how AI can help operate their agencies more efficiently and also on the cybercrime threat that comes with it. Tom Wetzel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaswetzel957/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/bSCQU9QiMZI

Mar 26, 202532 min

Travis Pine, Founder CEO & Justin Waters, SVP Client Relations HO at Solstice Innovations - PIR 649

Tony chats with Travis Pine and Justin Waters at Solstice Innovations, originally coming from the Flood space, they have developed a complete insurance technology ecosystem for Flood, Homeowners, and all other P&C lines. A one-stop shop, holistic system that handles policy billing, underwriting, claims, documents, etc. A very robust and highly configurable system. Travis Pine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-pine-02618a1/ Justin Waters: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-waters-cpcu-8a180...

Mar 25, 202546 min

Somil Jain, Principal & Sr. Consultant at Lewis & Ellis Actuarial Consultants - PIR Ep. 648

Tony chats with Somil Jain, Principal & Sr. Consultant at Lewis & Ellis Actuarial Consultants. Somil is a creative P&C actuary specializing in helping create new MGAs. I learned a lot about what actuaries do, how MGAs work, and how new technology has enabled the creation of so many new MGAs. Somil Jain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/somiljainconsulting/ Lewis & Ellis: https://lewisellis.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/OmKJ-AaNdhs

Mar 24, 202542 min

Dan Schuleman, Co-Founder and CEO at Qumis - PIR Ep. 647

Tony chats with Dan Schuleman, Co-Founder and CEO at Qumis, an AI platform built by experts for experts that helps read and interpret insurance policies. Dan was an insurance coverage attorney frustrated by how manual the process was so we built the tool he wish existed when he started. Dan Schuleman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielschuleman/ Qumis: https://www.qumis.ai/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/W4a5eU3XVs0

Mar 18, 202518 min

Risa Ryan, Founder and CEO at UnRetire - PIR Ep. 646

Tony chats with Risa Ryan, Founder and CEO at UnRetire, a platform that connects companies in the insurance industry that has project work needing to get done, with retirees with valuable experience who want to stay active. Risa Ryan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/risa-ryan-8b653417/ UnRetire: https://unretire.io/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/mTxoAQg-BGY

Mar 17, 202527 min
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