Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Benjamin Goldfien, VP of Insurance Operations at Sayata, the easiest place for wholesale insurance brokers to place business insurance for small commercial risks. They were originally featured in PIR Ep. 343 and today we do an update, and we chat about Benjamin's career and how he ended up at Sayata.Benjamin Goldfien: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamingoldfiencpcu/Sayata: https://www.sayata.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/CYYb0YM3mCQ

Tony chats with Kevin Ring, Lead WC Analyst a The Institute of Work Comp Professionals. They train, certifies, and mentor independent agents in a Work Comp process that helps them write more business and get better results for their clients. They offer the Certified Work Comp Advisor and Certified Work Comp Specialist destinations. After going through the program, they serve as the agency's work comp helpdesk.Kevin Ring: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iwcpkevin/The Institute of Work Comp Professionals: https://www.workcompprofessionals.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/_8Maz9Y3qv4

Tony chats with Brandon Yusko, VP of Sales at Yarus Technologies. Yusko is a full-service provider for policy administration systems and digital experience platforms. Their goal is to reduce the reliance on internal IT resources when launching a new platform. They offer a low-code, no-code platform to configure Policy Admin and digital experience platforms.Brandon Yusko: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-yusko-ab0bb539/Jarus Technology: https://www.jarustech.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/wv1KhMVutFE

Tony chats with Terry Wang, Co-Founder and CEO at Cios. They have created a brand new insurance product that tenants can buy and it protects them if they need to move before the end of their lease. We chat about why the product is needed, how they went about creating and underwriting it, and so much more. Very interesting conversation about the creation of a brand new insurance product.Terry Wang: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrencewang925/Cios: https://www.getcios.comVideo Version: https://youtu.be/Ctk20fv4K8w

Tony chats with returning guest Bill Murray about his career, his new role, the experience of job searching within insurance, advice for current job searchers, and his new book: "Enquire to Inspire: 20 Questions to Mentor Your Innovation Team to Success"Bill Murray: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-murray-mentor/Bills prior episode on PIR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7eiDE5CyIcPreorder Enquire to Inspire Book: https://www.crowdmall.co/products/930170-book-enquire-to-inspire-20-questions-to-mentor-your-innovation-team-to-success?_pos=1&_sid=530a509ce&_ss=rVideo Version: https://youtu.be/U9g6GSe2_bo

Tony chats with returning guest Elle Michell (Ep. 201). Intelligent Intentions is a boutique consulting firm offering consulting as it relates to third party vendors and suppliers that companies use. They help vendors and suppliers understand what they need to be able to partner with large corporations and government entities.Elle Michell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellemichell/Intelligent Intentions: https://intelligentintentions.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/gTRg9jKaaik

Tony chats with Dr. Kim Everett and Stacey Saunders about the just released Phoenix certification by Insure Equality. Certification is the next step for Phoenix. While we are collecting the longitudinal data from Phoenix, the certification gives companies the opportunity to use the data from the Phoenix Assessment right now to build a stronger and more inclusive culture for all stakeholders.Dr. Kim Everett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlydeverett/Stacey Saunders: https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceysaunders1/Insure Equality: https://InsureEquality.org

Tony chats with Katie Barrows, Communications Director at the Department for Professional Employees AFL-CIO and Elizabeth Kidder, Steward with OPE Local 39. We discuss the first union serving insurance professionals, why it's important, and how you can get involved.Video Version: https://youtu.be/fPWsCqNVq3Q

Tony chats with Dan McCue about his career in Social Media Marketing in the insurance and insurtech industry. Having managed Social Media both for a very traditional carrier and for an insurtech it was a lot of fun to chat with Dan about the radically different experiences.Dan McCue: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmccue/Video Version: https://youtu.be/OD4pl3skzcc

Tony chats with Bryan Saunders and Filip Sierpinski of PainWorth. Painworth was created to help claimants in Canada understand how to fairly value a personal injury claim so they can manage their claim better on their own in full trust and transparency with the insurance company without having to involve a middleman or litigation to make the process more efficient for everyone.Filip Sierpinski: https://www.linkedin.com/in/filip-sierpinski-8b886225/Bryan Saunders: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-saunders-a8a32a29/Painworth: https://www.painworth.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/H3Xt7UnJ90o