

Profiles in Risk
Insurance Nerds
The largest insurtech podcast going on 700+ episodes. This is not your grandpa's insurance industry!
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Jan 7, 2026 • 49min
Ted Vandenberg - PIR Ep. 778
Tony chats with Ted Vandenberg about his 35 year insurance career integrating insurance and what we now call Analytics.Ted Vandenberg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardvandenberg/Video Version: https://youtu.be/cRQzkTlcVjk

Jan 6, 2026 • 35min
Amrish Singh, Co-Founder and CEO at Liberate - PIR Ep. 777
Tony chats with Amrish Singh, Co-Founder and CEO at Liberate, they create customer facing AI workers for insurance agencies and carriers. They AI can answer phone calls, emails, SMS, and a lot of the other activities that don't require a license. A fascinating conversation you don't want to miss!Amrish Singh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amrishsingh/Liberate: https://www.liberateinc.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/3FG9PTlI15Y

Jan 5, 2026 • 31min
Alex Rodov, Founder at Emtech Group - PIR Ep. 776
Tony chats with Alex Rodov, Founder at Emtech Group, a widely recognized pioneer in software QA testing. We talk about why software QA testing is now a huge deal in the era of developers using AI to create code, and how Emtech can help.Alex Rodov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexrodov/Emtech: https://emtechgroup.com/

Dec 29, 2025 • 32min
Content Strategies for Insurance Agencies & Brokers Using Zywave's Content Cloud - PiR Ep. 775
For insurance agents and brokers, being a trusted advisor is the holy grail of professionalism. When your clients rely on you for advice, you are creating value for them beyond the insurance policy.Becoming a trusted advisor means that you are bringing wisdom and advice, and that it is thoughtful, precise, and predominantly accurate. Over time, your credibility goes up, and credibility is a major pillar of trust.In this Profiles in Risk episode, Nick spoke with Marketing Expert Paula Warden and Zywave's Director of Content Cloud Jamie Nelson about how agents and brokers can become subject matter experts and thought leaders using content strategies. They specifically looked into using Zywave's Content Cloud library with examples from both Jaime and Paula on how agencies and brokerages have successfully used these strategies to drive inbound traffic, leading to new business opportunities.Slapping ChatGPT into your agency for content development is not the solution to becoming a thought leader using content...it will likely produce a lot of erroneous information, that could be counterproductive. Content Cloud uses thought leaders to generate the content for you to then share with your marketplace. A useful feature to have for agencies looking to driving inbound traffic and wishing to remain lean and mean.Zywave Content Cloud Website:https://www.zywave.com/content-cloud/Paula Warden - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-warden-44904912/Jaime Nelson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamienelsonwi/

Dec 22, 2025 • 43min
Evgeny Alexandrov, Founder and CEO at Pilotbird - PIR Ep. 774
Tony chats with Evgeny Alexandrov, Founder and CEO at Pilotbird, a lifestyle analytics company that analyzes social data points focused on helping evaluate claims for the US market. A fascinating episode you shouldn't miss!Evegny Alexandrov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evgeny-aleksandrov/Pilotbird: https://www.pilotbird.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/pit2BOSFzG8

Dec 15, 2025 • 51min
Diane Delaney, Executive Director at PRMA - PIR Ep. 773
Tony chats with Diane Delaney, Executive Director at PRMA, the Private Risk Management Association, the non-profit association built to bring together the high net worth insurance community. This is a fast growing and fascinating area of insurance and the PRMA serves it in many ways from education, to conferences, to advocacy, and more. A great episode!Diane Delaney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diane-m-delaney/PRMA: https://www.privateriskmanagement.org/Video Version: https://youtu.be/GX8if6sKABwThis episode of Profiles in Risk is sponsored by Zywave:Whether an insurer, agent, or service provider, the insurance industry is changing fast. Traditional growth strategies are no loner working. Unlock new levels of efficiency, resilience, and profitability with Zywave. Explore Zywave at: https://www.zywave.com/

Dec 10, 2025 • 39min
Yandy Plasencia, CEO & Founder at DataHaven - PIR Ep. 772
Tony chats with Yandy Plasencia, CEO & Founder at DataHaven. This is an update episode, Yandy was on the show in Ep. 675. DataHaven is a core infrastructure company solving the foundational data problem. Their core focus is on making sure there are no data silo and data is available where it is needed to make the best decisions. This episode is about how the company has grown over this last year and the biggest learnings along the way.Yandy Pasencia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yandyplasencia/DataHaven: https://www.datahaven.software/Video Version: https://youtu.be/CLBfiVv2TGsThis episode of Profiles in Risk is sponsored by Zywave:Whether an insurer, agent, or service provider, the insurance industry is changing fast. Traditional growth strategies are no loner working. Unlock new levels of efficiency, resilience, and profitability with Zywave. Explore Zywave at: https://www.zywave.com/

Dec 9, 2025 • 44min
Asaf Lifshitz, Co-Founder & CEO and Upasana Immo, COO at Sayata - PIR Ep. 771
Tony chats with Asaf Lifshitz, Co-Founder & CEO and Upasana Unni, COO at Sayata, an AI enabled markeplace for small commercial insurance that started in Cyber and then expanded. They recently got acquired and learned a LOT through that process, which is what the big focus of this conversation is about.Asaf Lifshitz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asaflifshitz/Upasana Unni: https://www.linkedin.com/in/upasana-unni/Sayata: https://sayata.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/K0CKO8O0BE4Prior Sayata Episodes: https://youtu.be/J_kJVAnd3Hk?si=S3VUTKJuZ_yThP5e and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYYb0YM3mCQThis episode of Profiles in Risk is sponsored by Zywave:Whether an insurer, agent, or service provider, the insurance industry is changing fast. Traditional growth strategies are no loner working. Unlock new levels of efficiency, resilience, and profitability with Zywave. Explore Zywave at: https://www.zywave.com/

Dec 8, 2025 • 41min
John Stammen, CEO at Convr - PIR Ep. 770
Tony chats with John Stammen, CEO at Convr, they are an underwriting workbench for Commercial P&C insurers, brokers, and MGAs of all sizes.John Stammen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnstammen/Convr: https://convr.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/yOR3hbvBRNYThis episode of Profiles in Risk is sponsored by Zywave.Whether an insurer, agent, or service provider, the insurance industry is changing fast. Traditional growth strategies are no loner working. Unlock new levels of efficiency, resilience, and profitability with Zywave. Explore Zywave at: https://www.zywave.com/

Dec 3, 2025 • 20min
Debbie Brackeen, EVP Chief Innovation Officer & Corp. Development Officer at CSAA - PIR Ep. 769
Tony chats with Debbie Brackeen, EVP Chief Innovation Officer & Corp. Development Officer at CSAA about their approach to innovation, how a 100 year old insurance company can truly innovate, and more. A very interesting conversation you shouldn't miss!Debbie Brackeen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debra-brackeen/CSAA: https://csaa-insurance.aaa.comVideo Version: https://youtu.be/jTN4uFfzJiY


