Profiles in Risk

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 level training and consulting. 2. They help agencies with leads and marketing. 3. The Seven Figure Medicare Summit in Utah.

Christian Brindle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-brindle-a4411ab4/
Seven Figures Medicare Training: https://sevenfigureu.com/
Lead Heroes: https://leadheroes.com/
Hire Heroes: https://hireheroes.com/christian43/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/bPySP_kiMX0

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

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_Annual_Conference/2023_Annual_Conference-_Save_the_Date.aspx

SIR: https://www.sirnet.org/

Amelia Fitch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amelia-fitch/

Jennifer Chase: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-chase-2598104/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/dZxf66unqS8

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: https://amzn.to/4cavzAU

Video Version: https://youtu.be/lGAAuR-acRw

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

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-8a180b16/
Solstice Innovations: https://solstice.tech/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/g0Z3Rm41rTA

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

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

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

Tony chats with Abdul Yusuf, CEO and Co-Founder at EyeFootage. They are building a marketplace where claims adjusters and attorneys can buy videos of car accidents they are working on settling. In a world filling up with cameras, many accidents are caught on camera, but they were not easily accessible before EyeFootage came around.

Abdul Yusuf: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdul-y-33609b283/
EyeFootage: https://eyefootage.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/5dcuufojTgo