Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Paul Vacquier, Founder & CEO at Beagle Services, they provide last mile deployment and expertise of leak detection technology facilitating partnerships with carriers and others needing to prevent water damage. Uniquely they use plumbers they hire as employees, not a contractor network. They provide water damage prevention to carriers in a device agnostic way.Paul Vacquier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulvacquier/Beagle Services: https://www.beagleservices.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/07Rlr73X3CU

Tony chats with Paul Prendergast, Co-Founder and CEO at Kayna, they make it easy for vertical SAAS company to do embedded insurance.Paul Prendergast: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulincork/Kayna: https://www.kayna.io/Video Version: https://youtu.be/_OYgTHmXE7I

Tony chats with Peter Teresi, Co-Founder & CEO at Certificial, they are a network that sits between insurance and all other verticals focused on the certificate of insurance process from a PDF (that often needs to be made multiple times and only proves the policy was active at the time it got made) to a living document that is a truly smart Certificate of Insurance.Peter Teresi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete/Certificial: https://www.certificial.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/FEaZ2H5NfsA

Tony chats with Sharon Henzler, after about 8 years in the industry Sharon went to her first insurance conference, the Future of Insurance Fest at Santa Monica Pier. They chat about what the conference was like and how it changed her approach to insurance conferences going forward. A great listen for all early career insurance pros.Sharon Henzler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-henzler-000/Video Version: https://youtu.be/xwHH3nl53p4

Tony chats with Love Redin, Co-Founder and CEO at Vantel, they build AI tools for middle market commercial insurance producers to help them process documents, find coverage gaps, compare quotes, review contracts, and more.Love Redin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/love-redin/Vantel: https://vantel.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/V9lqVj8r9uY

Tony chats with Nishant Tomar, Chairman and CEO at DigsFact, they are leveraging AI to accelerate virtual inspections both during underwriting and post-loss. They can help with property, vehicles, and toys. In 2 minutes the policyholder can do a guided video or photos and be done while getting the carrier all the info they need.Nishant Tomar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thenishanttomar/DigsFact https://digsfact.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/2cR8yllASz4

Tony chats with Danny Aronson, CEO and Ann Boger, COO at Tuned Care, they are revolutionizing hearing health benefits by helping employers offer full spectrum hearing care for their workers. Currently only 11% of workers have any hearing coverage and historically it's merely a discount on hearing aids. Tuned Care brings a much more comprehensive approach to protecting our hearing throughout our lives. A super fascinating conversation!Danny Aronson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannyaronson/Ann Boger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ann-boger/Tuned Care: https://www.tunedcare.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/n5uymOdMt0c

Tony chats with Liam Harris, Co-Founder and CEO at ThreadWise, they are a commercial co-pilot for commercial insurance communications starting with email. They believe that while commercial brokering is complex, the tools shouldn't be. Their goal is to clean the data before it gets dirty and allow brokers to do the work they're licensed to do. Their biggest focus to start with is the submission workflow.Liam Harris: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liam-harreys/ThreadWise: https://threadwise.ai/Video Version: https://youtu.be/1AhcQxGlfsw

Tony chats with Santoash Rajaram, Founder at Stitch Studio, they are building an insurance specific AI platform making AI agents. They believe that in order for AI to be adaptable to insurance organizations have to be able to embed them in the existing value chain of what’s happening in the organization already. And you need to create an infrastructure that allows agents to be rooted in the insurance knowledge and the organizational knowledge.Santoash Rajaram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/srajara/Stitch Studio: https://stitchstudio.ai/Video Version: https://youtu.be/O1eyE7JjhIo

Tony chats with Todd Hawk, Founder and CEO At Elisa For Life, they are an insurtech in the Life Insurance space solving a difficult issue in that space, the younger generation of buyers don't respond well to cold-calling or mailers. Elisa for Life is an embeddable digital advisor and digital sales assistant. The prospect answers a series of questions, gets scored, educated, and then Elisa makes a broad recommendation leaving the agent a lot of room to work with. Their goal is to help independent agents compete with tech companies in selling Life in a modern way.Todd Hawk: https://www.linkedin.com/in/todd-hawk-b5a99748/Elisa For Life: https://www.elisaforlife.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/N-EDoGGID9Y