Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Freddy Seikaly, CEO at Honeyquote, a residential property insurance marketplace and digital insurance agency that supports coastal markets, especially in Florida! Homeowner's insurance premiums in coastal areas are 4x the national average. Honeyquote's technology integrates with the small regional carriers serving Florida and the Gulf Coast and makes their products much more easily available digitally. A fantastically interesting conversation about digitalizing the toughest property insurance market in the US.

Freddy Seikaly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/freddyseikaly/
Honeyquote: https://www.honeyquote.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/pSEHbU2fA9E

Tony chats with returning Profiles in Risk guest Myranda Elizabeth Joseph. Myranda appeared on the show as a doe-eyed 23-year-old independent insurance agent and Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) Student (Episode 131) and has since had immense career and personal growth. In this catch-up conversation we talked about her career, what she's learned, and what advice she has for new insurance professionals.

Myranda Elizabeth Joseph: https://www.linkedin.com/in/myranda-elizabeth-joseph-a5263067/
PIR Ep. 131: https://youtu.be/OFoYf4lI_8s?si=w9e6xQ--RhhhPyru

YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/y-LF7e7UoEQ

Nick interviews Nick Fekula and Josh Zier at Project Canary, a climate technology company that offers an enterprise emissions data platform to help companies identify, measure, understand, and act to reduce their emissions across their value chain. They use sophisticated software to help companies improve, report, and really understand their emissions. They also offer an environmental risk assessment.

Nick Fekula: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-fekula-60516898/
Josh Zier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-zier-925ab9133/
Project Canary: https://www.projectcanary.com/

YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/GOkwOjzNSlg

Tony chats with Brian Thompson, Business Development Underwriting for North America at Descartes Underwriting. They are a parametric MGA out of Paris, France. They build custom programs for anything tha'ts a natural peril. If you have a weather problem and they can get data on it, they can build a program for you. Very interesting conversation!

Brian Thompson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcthompson82/
Descartes Underwriting: https://descartesunderwriting.com/

YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/H0BainLQmq8

Tony chats with Alex Schmelkin, CEO and Jane Tran, COO at Sixfold, the first generative AI for insurance underwriting! They help insurance underwriters be more efficient, find more capacity and be more accurate in their jobs.

Alex Schmelkin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmelkin/
Jane Tran: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-tran-xyz/
Sixfold: https://www.sixfold.ai/

YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/aNcb00UJKDQ

Tony chats with Sindre Halaal, CEO, and Founder at SalesScreen. They are a sales gamification platform. It helps engage your workforce making their activity into more of a game-like environment which makes it more pleasant and more fun to do. You can create real-time competition. You can put visualization at the center to create accountability. You can implement a reward system. It works both for in-office and for hybrid and remote teams.

Sindre Halaal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_DUDpeuopE
SalesScreen: https://www.salesscreen.com/

Tony chats with Ema Roloff, Co-Founder and Principal Consultant at Roloff Consulting. They are focused on helping software and services companies serving insurance really narrow in on how to transform their processes.

Ema Roloff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emaroloff/
Roloff Consulting: https://www.roloffconsulting.com/
YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/2HW8AfWt-zc

Tony chats with Dilip Mohapatra, Founder & CEO at Coginitive View. They help companies prevent fines for compliance failures. Their technology can understand what's going on in your customer engagement, make sure your agents are compliant, doing the right things, and claims are getting handled properly. They can get you to 100% compliant!

Dilip Mohapatra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dilipmohapatra/
Cognitive View: https://www.cognitiveview.com/

YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/zBHYqeG8ovA

Tony chats with Taylor Walker, Chief Insurance Officer at LoadSure. They are making waves for insurance brokers in the market. Data-powered AI-pricing for freight insurance. In the past a piece of complex business in the ocean cargo market would take a couple of days, with LoadSure it can be immediate or take less than a minute. If you're in the Ocean Marine Insurance space, you gotta listen to this one.

Taylor Walker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-walker-1369535a/
LoadSure: https://www.loadsure.net/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/dOgi-M3hfTU

Tony chats with Adam Bowe, Founder at Cake. Cake is a transactional marketplace for independent agencies to buy and sell books of business, not only full books of business but they can also transact in fractional books of business. This still is amazing and truly 🤯! Maybe you can have your 🎂 and eat it too!

Adam Bowe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adambowe/
Cake: https://www.haveyourcake.com/

YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/LuHAk7W1CfU