Profiles in Risk

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

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.com/in/elliot-bassett-aip-cpcu-84499515/Rocketship Ventures Launch: https://getlaunch.io/Video Version: https://youtu.be/FvdiUsea5c8

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://youtu.be/oPbptFJDOPo

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/3OodDHuVideo Version: https://youtu.be/P-tWLtZc3lw

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/gEH1m6d584E

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/contactushttps://youtu.be/j4sfjbv6QTA

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

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://chrptech.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/z_fZOZ68UtI

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

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