Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Jesse Benedick, CEO & Co-Founder at Chainmail Solutions, an insurtech MGA helping protect the gaps especially around hurricane deductibles using an IoT grid that helps verify the exact conditions at the property.

Jesse Benedick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-benedick-b436833/
Chainmail Solutions: https://www.chainmailsolutions.ai/

Tony chats with John Brunette, long-time insurance expert and insurance education consultant. We chat about his career, about the future of insurance talent, advice for the next generation, and more.

John Brunette: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbrunette/

Tony chats with Jeppe Norregaard, Founder at InReality, a tech company that provides technology to guarantee something is real, a video, a photo, or anything digital. Security from glass to glass, from the camera to the final person seeing it to identify what's fake or synthetic. It's a unique approach, instead of trying to identify fakes, they secure the data with encryption the moment the photo or video is taken.

Jeppe Norregaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeppe-n%C3%B8rregaard/

InReality: https://inreality.io/

Tony chats with Karmina Szymanski, Head of Communications at District Cover about their Urban Risk Report, a deep dive report highlighting the growing insurance protection gap and capacity pullback affecting metropolitan business communities. A fascinating report. We can expand coverage to traditionally underserved businesses!

Download the report: https://www.districtcover.com/urban-risk-report-2026

Karnina: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karnina-szymanski-47610312/
District Cover: https://www.districtcover.com/

Tony chats with Sat Ramphal, Co-Founder & CEO at Maya AI, they are a conversational AI platform to help agents with retention and performance.

Sat Ramphal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/satramphal/
Maya AI: https://mayaknows.com/

Tony chats with Craig Bender, CEO at InsureU2, they help insurance organizations through modernizing operations to improve performance and scale intelligently.

Craig Bender: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-bender-6165a7183/
InsureU2: https://insureu2.club/

Rich Cooper, Global Head of Market Transformation at Fusion Risk Management, they provide an enterprise resilience platform used by most of the large carriers and much of the financial services industry. We discuss their newest Enterprise Resilience Report.

Download the Enterprise Resilience Report: https://www.fusionrm.com/whitepapers/the-enterprise-resilience-report/?utm_source=profiles-in-risk&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=dpr

Rich Cooper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-cooper-a2782b/
Fusion Risk Management: https://www.fusionrm.com/

Tony chats with Kevin Finn, Co-Founder and Reuben Vandeventer, Co-Founder and Head of Research at Tessera, the new product management operating system for P&C insurance.

Kevin Finn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-finn-13b4852/
Reuben Vandeventer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reubenjvandeventer/
Tessera: https://mytessera.ai/

Tony chats with Spencer McDonald, CEO at Expert Insured, a systems providers focused on MGAs, Wholesales, and Carriers. They offer a modern Policy Admin System at a priced that is reasonable from a startup MGA to organizations with 1,000+ employees. It includes documents, policies, accountings, everything all in one. A end-to-end solution for the MGA space.

Expert Insured: https://www.expertinsured.com/
Spencer McDonald: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcdonaldspencer/

I chat with MJ Saffer, Founder & Owner at EthosVAS, they help insurance agencies scale without losing margins or risk compliance issues through highly specialized Virtual Assistants. They build custom back-office solutions using trained, compliant virtual staff supported by proven processes. All with a strong focus on compliance.

MJ Saffer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mj-saffer/
EthosVAS: https://www.ethosvas.com/