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

In this episode of Profiles in Risk (E557), Nick Lamparelli engages with Tim Robinson and Corey Schmidt from AgencyBloc to delve into the transformative journey of their technology platform. As a CEO with extensive experience in software solutions across various industries, Tim Robinson shares his transition from web development to creating a comprehensive system designed to streamline insurance business management. AgencyBloc stands out by offering specialized, efficient tools that allow smaller health and benefits agencies to operate with the efficiency of their larger counterparts.

Throughout the discussion, the trio touches upon the delicate act of balancing diverse skill sets within a business and the significance of a SaaS company's deep understanding of its clients to provide truly valuable insights and solutions. Emphasizing the importance of customer feedback and integration with top-tier solutions, they highlight how staying at the forefront of technology is crucial for success.

The episode showcases AgencyBloc's robust AMS solution features, emphasizing its effectiveness in managing leads and sales activities. The technology's capacity for automated nurturing campaigns is also discussed, showcasing how it enables agents to forge stronger customer relationships through strategic engagement.

AgencyBloc - https://www.linkedin.com/company/agencybloc/posts/?feedView=all
Tim Robinson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothyjrobinson/
Cory Schmidt - https://www.linkedin.com/in/coryschmidt/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/b3PnBw0hRbM

Tony chats with Charlie Sidoti, Executive Director at InnSure, they are a non-profit innovation hub focused on innovation in insurance related to climate change. They look at it through the lens of what does the world need from the insurance industry to help with climate change, and is also good business for the insurance industry. How can insurance help accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy and how does insurance need to be reimagined to close the protection gap. What a fantastic conversation you MUST listen to! We can be heroes!

Carlie Sidoti: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidoti/
InnSure: https://innsure.org/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/kwY00XQrl1M

Tony chats with Cyrus Karai, CEO at CoverForce, they help strengthen agencies by offering the best infrastructure to connect commercial P&C agencies and carriers. The help carriers digitize their access points to agents, brokers, banks, etc. They offer a unified API that lets you access several of the leading P&C commercial lines carriers.

Cyrus Karai: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyrus-karai/
CoverForce: https://www.coverforce.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/VPBnapLF0ss

Tony chats with Marlena Sarunac and Lubna Hameed, Co-Founders at The Company Advice. (For High Ds: actual content starts at 4:10.) They provide design leadership and execution to startups from the very beginning by bringing them in a fractional capacity. They have extensive experience in insurtech, healthtech, fintech, and more. Marketing and design is often deprioritized in the early days and then there's a lot of catching up to be done post-MVP. The Company Advice can help you infuse marketing and design thinking to help make that little MVP grow up big and strong.

Marlena Sarunac: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlenasarun
Lubna Hameed: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lubna-sarwat-hameed/
The Company Advice: https://TheCompanyAdvice.com

Video Version: https://youtu.be/fBqg7I7fYmU