Profiles in Risk

Brian Thompson, Business Development Underwriting for North America at Descartes Underwriting, discusses parametric insurance for natural perils, customized programs for brokers and wholesalers, and commission structures in the insurance industry. They also explore the significance of reliable data sources and the recent rise in popularity of parametric insurance.

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_DUDpeuopESalesScreen: 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

Tony chats with Jeff Tyler and Suman Palit at Insurance Quantified and Groundspeed Analytics. Submission IQ by Insurance Quantified uses data science at the top of funnel, streamlining the underwriting desk helping underwriters make decisions faster and quote faster. Groundspeed delivers intelligent document processing. Together they create an incredible combination.Suman Palit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumanpalit/Jeff Tyler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-tyler-bb824a3/YouTube Version: https://studio.youtube.com/video/ewM2Ll3UuAc/edit

Tony chats with Jordan Peace, Co-Founder and CEO at Fringe. They asked themselves if we got to start over with benefits how would we do them thinking outside the box. What if day-to-day services like Uber, Airbnb, Spotify could be offered as benefits to increase retention? Fringe is basically a marketplace of a bunch of services, where employers can fund individual accounts for their employees and allow they to buy the services that are most important to them.Jordan Peace: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-peace-fringe/Fringe: https://www.fringe.us/YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/q9B0MWIYirU

Tony chats with Mike Koscielny, long-time insurance executive, former President of the CPCU Society, and author of Born2Lead. We chat about Mike's iconic career, his incredible role at the CPCU Society as mentor to my entire generation, and his new book about leadership. So much to learn from this episode and the book:Mike: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-koscielny-mba-cpcu-cic-3424985/Born2Lead: https://Born2Lead.netVideo Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzm1CRZAe30