Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Andrew Filar, Co-Founder at Next Call Club and CEO at Peachy Insurance. While Tony spent 10 years talking about how the captive agent model was dying, Andrew quietly proved him wrong, and blew his mind. In 9 years Andrew went from brand new out of college to CEO of the largest Allstate agent in the country, to creating his own agency, growing it from scratch to $5M in 3 years, and creating his own consulting firms to help other exclusive agencies do the same. WHAT?!?!?! If you're an agent, YOU CANNOT MISS THIS EPISODE!

Andrew Filar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewfilar/
Next Call Club: https://nextcallclub.com/

YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/ADs7Sed53BI

Tony chats with Yaron Dycian, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at WINT Water Intelligence. They specialize in managing water in buildings which comes in through dumb pipes and is used by dumb valves and faucets. It's an unmanaged resource! Managing water is becoming a serious issue, even in the developed world. Unbelievably, about 25% of all water in a building is wasted because of death by a thousand cuts! Water damage in buildings is one of the very highest causes of property losses and WINT can radically improve that.

Yaron Dycian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yarondycian/
WINT Water Intelligence: https://wint.ai/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/6y2qR8x--GU

Tony chats with Dave Connors, Co-Founder and CEO at DistriBind. They are curing the insurance industry of our spreadsheet addiction, a data exchange platform with a special focus on delegated authority. They provide a lot of validation, data cleansing, and most importantly validation to provide a lot of much-needed certainty.

Dave Connors: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveconnorsinsurtech/
DistriBind: https://www.distribind.io/

YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/PX7Ep7X-Jho

Nick Lamparelli is back in a new leading role as Managing Partner of Insurance Nerds. On today's episode, we announce massive changes to Insurance Nerds that will be rolling out over the Fall of 2023 and into 2024 turning us into much more than we have been in the past, and into a much more unified platform for #insurance learning, community, and career growth!

Nick Lamparelli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicklamparelli/
Insurance Nerds: https://InsNerds.com

Video Version: https://youtu.be/1CexkrF66ng

Tony chats with Andrew Engler, Co-Founder and CEO at Kettle. They're aiming to be a different Kettle of fish with an incredible mission of being the biggest safety net to the world against climate change through insurance and reinsurance. They're a reinsurance MGA and a micro-reinsurer. This is one incredible episode.

Andrew Engler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericandrewengler/
Kettle: https://ourkettle.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/A9V53GmobtI

Tony has a super fun and fascinating conversation with former Google Product Manager, now Co-Founder and CEO at Coverage Cat. Young founders are just so fun, and this one is brilliant. A very fun episode! Miaw! 🐈

Coverage Cat is the new way for personal consumers to properly insure themselves. They are a data-driven broker that matches consumers TO THE RIGHT COVERAGE, not just the cheapest price. Yes Please!

Max Cho: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxrcho/
Coverage Cat: https://coveragecat.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/g12snT3Z6l8

Tony chats with Bill Haber, Co-Founder at TEKRiSQ. They're focused on helping independent agencies and the carriers and MGAs they work with to better streamline the process of engaging clients in technology-oriented risks. They're very focused on Cyber, one of the fastest-growing lines of business. We shouldn't ask agents (or business owners) to be part-time Cyber Security Experts. This is way too important of a line of coverage to get wrong! TEKRiSQ can help you get the most reliable information in the most streamlined way to fill out a proper Cyber application.

Bill Haber: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billhaber/
TEKRiSQ: https://tekrisq.com/
Video Version: https://youtu.be/7Ob4cIilZaI

Tony chats with David Watson CEO and Founder at RiskAdvisor, a platform that is basically a "souped up intake form" helping personal lines agents take that conversation and simplifies it and guides it. It ensures you collect clean, accurate data and distribute it wherever you need it.

David Watson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agentdavidwatson/

RiskAdvisor: https://riskadvisor.insure/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/NaTJpFq1PSM

Tony chats with Paul Monasterio, CEO and Co-Founder at Kalepa. They are dedicated to enhancing underwriting performance and driving profitable premium growth for the commercial insurance industry. Kalepa's AI-powered Copilot software enables underwriters to focus their time on the highest ROI opportunities and to quickly evaluate and optimally select risk.

Paul Monasterio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-monasterio-412a308/
Kalepa: https://www.kalepa.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/OeVw_gR14xM

Tony chats with Jeff Hirst - Soft Risk and Professional Empowerment Institute. We chat about Risk Management, Insurance careers, managing people, growing your career, his concept of Soft Risk Management, and so much more. A GREAT listen!

Jeff Hirst: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhirst100/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/yhcoVR4jwus