Tony chats with Zehra Cataltepe, PhD, CEO at Tazi AI Systems. Returning to the show 2 years after her original appearance on Profiles in Risk. In this episode, Zehra and I discuss the real-life use cases she's seeing in the real insurance world. If you're at all interested in AI and its effects on insurance this is an ABSOLUTE must watch episode!

Zehra Cataltepe, PhD: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zehracataltepe/
Tazi AI: https://tazi.ai/
Zehra's original episode on PIR: https://youtu.be/__fvHRHsWpw?si=LYIp4hodfSbqfA6A

Video Version: https://youtu.be/CRjcjSxKWWI

Tony chats with Jeff Radke, Co-Founder and CEO at Accelerant Holdings. Accelerant has been around for 5 years and exists to improve the specialty insurance value chain. They are "replatforming" the specialty insurance market. They serve specialty underwriters (MGAs and MGUs) and on the other side they serve risk capital sources. Their vision is an incredibly efficient infrastructure that reduces friction as much as possible.

Jeff Radke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-radke/
Accelerant: https://accelerant.ai/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/OT_Lzaq1tIg

Tony chats with Nicole Nwesigwa, Co-Founder and COO at iCover Insure, they deliver the best life insurance buying experience. They offer and e-app and algorithmic underwriting to small and medium-sized life carriers. They can get the consumer through the process in 5 minutes, guaranteed! They started in the fraternal space and then grew into the midrange market. Now they are launching iCover Direct to go after the direct-to-consumer channel. Very interesting stuff!

Nicole Mwesigwa: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-mwesigwa-3b438b6/
iCover Insure: https://icoverinsure.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/p7UvVgX5ZXE

Tony chats with Lynn Miller, Product Dev. Strategist and Growth Consultant at Straight Talk Writer - PIR Ep. 564. They help experts to generate more revenue through the creation of monetizable online classes.

Lynn Miller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/10xyourexpertise/
Video Version: https://youtu.be/Rf07KuzKJdY

Tony chats with Eric Foster, Founder and CEO at Woop Insurance. Woop is an insurance technology platform company that works in the agency side to make personal lines insurance simple, transparent, and convenient. Their goal is to provide an unbiased database to help insurance consumers make data-based decisions.

Eric Foster: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericfoster1/
Woop Insurance: https://www.woopinsuranceagency.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/u90sJhJ7h24

Authentic is an insurance infrastructure company that allows any platform that touches small businesses to start their own captive program. It's an end-to-end solution to start your own insurance program and it's not just a button that issues other carrier's paper. It actually allows you to build your own program on the back of Authentic. You actually get underwriting profit from your program! 🤯

Cole Riccardi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cole-riccardi-63a243127/
Authentic: https://authenticinsurance.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/q1IiuZkIH6M

Tony chats with fellow elder millennial Mike Tansey about his insurance career. Mike spent time first in claims and underwriting in a regional carrier and then joined an independent agency. We chat about how to grow your insurance career and advice for management on how to engage and retain their Millennial and Gen Z employees.

Mike Tansey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-tansey-48a62052/
Tony's book about Millennials: https://amzn.to/4eXLTpM

Video Version: https://youtu.be/sTT_IFhhMLY

Tony chats with Peter Tilbrook, Founder and CEO at Loro Insurtech, the world's first free insurtech! 🤯 Loro (which means parrot in Spanish) and their vision is to be the Shopify of insurance. Shopify is the best-known shopping engine on the web. Anyone, anywhere in the world looking to digitally sell an insurance product can do that with Loro in a matter of hours and for free! How is it free? Well, it's free to get started and then the pricing is designed so that Loro's incentives and the client's incentives are aligned. They only get paid if you're successful using the platform.

Peter Tilbrook: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-tilbrook-50832336/
Loro Insurtech: https://www.loroinsurance.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/mOPaT11iNHA

Tony chats with Angie Richards, VP at Poms & Associates about her career in employee benefits and her very unique approach to that side of the insurance field.

Angie Richards: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angie-richards-402b34a/
Poms & Associates: https://www.pomsassoc.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/ftOvt__F-kw

Tony chats with Marissa Rutkowski, Founder and Co-Chair of IndispensAbility at Applied Systems. They are a community of interest for mental and physical abilities of all kinds - seen and unseen; and fellow Board Member at Insure Equality. Marissa is one of the insurance industry's leading advocates for mental health and is doing crucially important work. We discuss her own history and the difficult circumstances that led her to create the group and to become a leader in this fight.

Marissa Rutkowski: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marissarutkowski/

Insure Equality Summit: https://insureequality.org/summit-2024-home/

Marissa's episode on Bound & Determined: https://www.adjunctadvisors.com/podcast/604

Ryan Deeds and Brendan Corr on Mental Health on PIR: https://youtu.be/yGYLdtPRwxk?si=xzxdVX5EghdBiHPY

Video Version: https://youtu.be/htez9GG2haQ