

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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Sep 11, 2025 • 27min
Alicia Burke, Director of Portfolio and Product Development at The CAS Institute - PIR Ep. 736
Tony chats with Alicia Burke, Director of Portfolio and Product Development at The CAS Institute, we chat about ICAS a wholly owned subsidiary of the Casualty Actuarial Society that offers analytics professionals and their employers the opportunity to certify skills specifically as applied to property and casualty insurance. Their Certified Specialist in Predictive Analytics (CSPA) and the International Society of Catastrophe Managers (ISCM) designations are hands-on and in partnership with The Institutes. A great conversation about continuing education on the analytics side of the industry.Alicia Burque: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliciaburke/The CAS Institute: https://thecasinstitute.org/Video Version: https://youtu.be/hRKkfqejYDw

Sep 10, 2025 • 33min
Luis Ricci Maia, Co-Founder and COO at Trag - Ep. 735
Tony chats Luis Ricci Maia, Co-Founder and COO at Trag, they are a Brazilian insurtech helping their clients understand climate risk they're facing in agriculture and help mitigate that risk through parametric and weather derivatives. Brazil is the largest exporter of crops in the world and only 10% of those crops have any insurance, so this is massive opportunity.Luis Ricci Maia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisriccimaia/Trag: https://www.trag.agr.br/Video Version: https://youtu.be/kO9aVMSH6O4

Sep 9, 2025 • 26min
Kerry Macca - Women in Insurance Initiative - PIR Ep. 734
Tony chats with Kerry Macca about the Kerry Macca - Women in Insurance Initiative and their live event at the RISE Leadership Summit.Kerry Macca: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrymacca/Women in Insurance Initiative: https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-insurance-initiative/posts/?feedView=allVideo Version: https://youtu.be/bsDpdPt2JUo

Sep 4, 2025 • 27min
Niti Jain, Founder & CEO at medml.ai - PIR Ep. 733
Tony chats with Niti Jain, Founder & CEO at medml.ai, the first underwriting platform created by actuaries. After 10 years of experience in pricing Life, Health, and P&C she was tired of extremely manual underwriting processes so they set out to create a better underwriting platform.Niti Jain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niti-nj-jain-b6083b73/medml.al: https://medml.ai/Video Version: https://youtu.be/w9hE4ZJn9Ps

Sep 3, 2025 • 43min
Michael Derkacz, Business Development at Ai.Law - PIR Ep. 732
Tony chats with Michael Derkacz, Business Development at Ai.Law and Ai.Claims. They are a single claim file application, they generate a claims analysis report that summarizes complicated files and it does very powerful analysis to superpower your claims adjusters. It provides next steps for the claim and helps newer adjusters think like an experienced adjuster!Michael Derkacz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-derkacz-6b4549113/AI.Claims: https://Ai.ClaimsVideo Version: https://youtu.be/-bmz4aBlMLU

Sep 2, 2025 • 37min
Chris Bean, CEO & Co-Founder at Skytree Scientific - PIR Ep. 731
Tony chats with Chris Bean, CEO & Co-Founder at Skytree Scientific, they are revolutionizing how insurers assess lightning risk. Their platform analyses property data and delivers a risk score in minutes allowing for faster underwriting, better pricing, and fewer losses. It also generates mitigation strategies for the policyholder. This technology came from an engineering process in Europe and is now available at an affordable cost for the insurance industry. A super interesting conversation you shouldn't miss!Chris Bean: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-bean-tech/Skytree Scientific: https://skytreescientific.ai/Video Version: https://youtu.be/eYwETZkCOMs

Aug 28, 2025 • 35min
Les Schlesinger, Owner at Auto Insurance Consulting - PIR Ep. 730
I chat with Les Schlesinger, Owner at Auto Insurance Consulting, he has 35 years of experience in all aspects of the Auto Insurance space and is now offering that expertise to carriers, MGAs, etc who need help in Product, Marketing, Claims, Litigation, etc.Les Schlesinger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/les-schlesinger-039a3510/

Aug 27, 2025 • 22min
Lucas Roberts, Wholesale Broker at Anzen Insurance - PIR Ep. 729
Tony chats with Lucas Roberts, Wholesale Broker at Anzen Insurance, they aim to offer the best technology combined with the best wholesale broker offering Cyber, Specialty Commercial, E&O, D&O and EPLI. Their software analyzes submission data and allows sending to various markets in one click while still having a broker that can really walk you through difficult risks.Lucas Roberts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-roberts-a70612a5/Anzen Insurance: https://anzen.com/

Aug 25, 2025 • 27min
Dan Hill, National Director of Sales at CarFax - PIR Ep. 728
Tony Chats with Dan Hill, National Director of Sales at CarFax, you probably think of CarFax as the people who get you a report on a used car before you buy it but for the insurance world they do a lot more!Dan Price: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danghill/CarFax: https://www.carfaxforinsurers.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/3CepVh9BO7o

Aug 20, 2025 • 34min
Jeremy Jawish, CEO at Shift Technology - PIR Ep. 727
I chat with Jeremy Jawish, CEO at Shift Technology, they are a vertical AI company providing solutions for the insurance industry helping us make better decisions. They already serve 70% of the US P&C market for AI fraud detection! They just launched the Insurance Data Network, which will allow carriers to better share claim claims and fraud data with each other. This is a huge deal! A very important episode to listen to!Jeremy Jawish: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-jawish/Shift Technology: https://www.shift-technology.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/eOkxvmKNhY8