Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with award winning innovator Meg Duty, SVP at Puritan Life and Canvas Annuity. Puritan Life is a life carrier started in the 1950s which they have now turned into an all-cloud shop. They built Canvas Annuity, the first all digital annuity platform. An incredible story of true innovation, opening up a product to a whole new market, and all without alienating your existing distribution channels. Lots to learn from this one. A cannot miss episode!

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Tony chats with Chak Kolli, PhD, CTO at Magile Software. Insurance companies are struggling to understand the risks of AI and Magile Software is here to help them understand and manage that risk better. A fascinating conversation you cannot miss!

Chak Kolli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chak-kolli/
Magile Software: https://www.linkedin.com/company/magile-software/

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Tony chats with Tim Lovett, Head of Enterprise Division at Blitz, they are a new fully digital API-enabled commercial lines E&S carrier that can service the entire distribution ecosystem from direct, to retailers, to wholesalers.

Tim Lovett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timlovett/
Blitz: https://www.blitzinsurance.com/

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Tony chats with Mel Faxon, Co-Founder & COO at Hey Mirza, they are basically Turbotax for government benefits. Her Mirza is focused on helping lower income people connect with the variety of programs they might qualify for, from their home, in their native language.

Mel Faxon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-faxon/
Hey Mirza: https://heymirza.com/

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Tony chats with Rich Benci, CEO at Omega Benefits, they help HR teams communicate benefit information to their employees, a task more complicated than I ever expected.

Rich Benci: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richbenci/
Omega Benefits: https://omegabenefits.net/

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Tony chats with Nakita Devlin, CEO & Founder at Ric, the first parametric catastrophe product focused on the employee benefit market! Their parametric managing general agent will host micro parametric products with the first one being a parametric flood product for rain across the US. The plan is for this to be the first of many climate parametric products offered as an employee benefit. A very interesting concept and a conversation you shouldn't miss!

Nakita Devlin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nakita-devlin-38155916/

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Tony chats with Frano Sain, CEO at Hero Response, they offer a unique monitoring system that improves profitability and lowers waster on all water related claims. It saves the contractors from having to go back every day to see if the equipment has finished drying the loss.

Frano Sain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franosain/
Hero Response: https://heroresponse.com/home

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Tony chats with Mitch Matthews, Success Coach and Creator of the DREAM THINK DO Podcast.

Mitch Matthews: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchmatthews/

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Tony chats with Peter Teresi, Co-Founder & CEO at Certificial, they are a network that sits between insurance and all other verticals focused on the certificate of insurance process from a PDF (that often needs to be made multiple times and only proves the policy was active at the time it got made) to a living document that is a truly smart Certificate of Insurance.

Peter Teresi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete/
Certificial: https://www.certificial.com/

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Tony chats with Paul Vacquier, Founder & CEO at Beagle Services, they provide last mile deployment and expertise of leak detection technology facilitating partnerships with carriers and others needing to prevent water damage. Uniquely they use plumbers they hire as employees, not a contractor network. They provide water damage prevention to carriers in a device agnostic way.

Paul Vacquier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulvacquier/
Beagle Services: https://www.beagleservices.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/07Rlr73X3CU