Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Yaron Dycian, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at WINT Water Intelligence. They specialize in managing water in buildings which comes in through dumb pipes and is used by dumb valves and faucets. It's an unmanaged resource! Managing water is becoming a serious issue, even in the developed world. Unbelievably, about 25% of all water in a building is wasted because of death by a thousand cuts! Water damage in buildings is one of the very highest causes of property losses and WINT can radically improve that.Yaron Dycian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yarondycian/WINT Water Intelligence: https://wint.ai/Video Version: https://youtu.be/6y2qR8x--GU

Tony chats with Dave Connors, Co-Founder and CEO at DistriBind. They are curing the insurance industry of our spreadsheet addiction, a data exchange platform with a special focus on delegated authority. They provide a lot of validation, data cleansing, and most importantly validation to provide a lot of much-needed certainty.Dave Connors: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveconnorsinsurtech/DistriBind: https://www.distribind.io/YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/PX7Ep7X-Jho

Nick Lamparelli, Managing Partner of Insurance Nerds, discusses the evolution of Insurance Nerds as a platform for young insurance professionals. They explore the need for improved training programs in the insurance industry and discuss plans to create a centralized platform for richer engagement and experiences. They also discuss the value of platforms like STEAM in fostering a supportive and connected community.

Tony chats with Andrew Engler, Co-Founder and CEO at Kettle. They're aiming to be a different Kettle of fish with an incredible mission of being the biggest safety net to the world against climate change through insurance and reinsurance. They're a reinsurance MGA and a micro-reinsurer. This is one incredible episode.Andrew Engler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericandrewengler/Kettle: https://ourkettle.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/A9V53GmobtI

Tony has a super fun and fascinating conversation with former Google Product Manager, now Co-Founder and CEO at Coverage Cat. Young founders are just so fun, and this one is brilliant. A very fun episode! Miaw! 🐈Coverage Cat is the new way for personal consumers to properly insure themselves. They are a data-driven broker that matches consumers TO THE RIGHT COVERAGE, not just the cheapest price. Yes Please!Max Cho: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxrcho/Coverage Cat: https://coveragecat.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/g12snT3Z6l8

Bill Haber, Co-Founder at TEKRiSQ, discusses how they streamline the process of engaging clients in technology-oriented risks, focusing on the importance of cyber security. They emphasize the need for independent objective eyes in assessing cyber risk and offer free risk assessments. The podcast also explores Weston Labs, a new accelerator fortifying independent agencies, and the challenges in the cyber insurance market.

Tony chats with David Watson CEO and Founder at RiskAdvisor, a platform that is basically a "souped up intake form" helping personal lines agents take that conversation and simplifies it and guides it. It ensures you collect clean, accurate data and distribute it wherever you need it.David Watson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agentdavidwatson/RiskAdvisor: https://riskadvisor.insure/Video Version: https://youtu.be/NaTJpFq1PSM

Tony chats with Paul Monasterio, CEO and Co-Founder at Kalepa. They are dedicated to enhancing underwriting performance and driving profitable premium growth for the commercial insurance industry. Kalepa's AI-powered Copilot software enables underwriters to focus their time on the highest ROI opportunities and to quickly evaluate and optimally select risk.Paul Monasterio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-monasterio-412a308/Kalepa: https://www.kalepa.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/OeVw_gR14xM

Tony chats with Jeff Hirst - Soft Risk and Professional Empowerment Institute. We chat about Risk Management, Insurance careers, managing people, growing your career, his concept of Soft Risk Management, and so much more. A GREAT listen!Jeff Hirst: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhirst100/Video Version: https://youtu.be/yhcoVR4jwus

Tony chats with Elliot Bassett, Co-Founder at Rocketship Ventures Launch, a software platform that helps a producer walk through their sales process using an assessment based process. It's super efficient and gives them a variety of ways to differentiate theirselves in the marketplace. It provides an objective scoring mechanism you can share with the client and tools and charts to help improve the account. Super cool stuff! For high Ds: Fast forward to 4:30.Elliot Bassett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliot-bassett-aip-cpcu-84499515/Rocketship Ventures Launch: https://getlaunch.io/Video Version: https://youtu.be/FvdiUsea5c8