Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Bobby Touran, Co-Founder at Rainbow. They are a modern underwriting company focused on small businesses. They focus on underwriting by being very specialized, currently in the food and beverage industry, primarily restaurants.Bobby Touran: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-touran-782a6513/Rainbow: https://www.userainbow.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/u0yfyzIeiak

Tony chats with Sivan Iram, Founder and CEO at Capitola,  the world's smartest digital marketplace for commercial risk. They connect brokers and carriers using AI-based risk appetite matching to streamline the placement process.Sivan Iram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sivaniram/Capitola: https://www.capitola-ins.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/urANly_xon0

Tony chats with Misha Bleymaier-Farrish, insurance executive, consultant, and author of The GSD Factor. Misha's story is amazing and her book is an easy read, and incredibly motivating. This is a really fun episode you don't want to miss! Plus, the hats!Misha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mishableymaierfarrish/The GSD Factor: https://www.amazon.com/GSD-Factor-Confident-Professional-Empowerment/dp/B0C4G48SCR/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2TAKHUNDTS68Z&keywords=the+gsd+factor&qid=1688557712&sprefix=the+gsd+facto%2Caps%2C233&sr=8-1Video Version: https://youtu.be/wR1GRS1fbOs

Tony chats with Michael Derkacz about his illustrious insurance career. Michael brought 10 years of experience at American Express into insurance and thrived first at AIG, and then at Chubb  and W.R. Berkley including a significant amount of international experience. He generously gives us some of his time to help the next generation grow their insurance career with fantastic advice!Michael Derkacz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-derkacz-6b4549113/Video Version: https://youtu.be/5pw0W8bgf78

Tony chats with Patrick Koeller, CTO at When Insurance - They are solving a MAJOR issue in the US employment market. When Insurance protects people's ability to afford Health Insurance in between jobs! They have built two products to achieve this. This is crucially important!Patrick Koeller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickkoeller/When Insurance: https://www.forwhen.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/qnbhWk830jE

Tony chats with John Petitte, CEO and Jason Farrell, Chief Customer Officer at Amplifi Labs, a digital product development shop that helps other companies develop digital products. They help with UI/UX, infrastructure, machine learning, AI, and just about everything else on the development side.John Petitte: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpetitte/Jason Farrell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-farrell-0713173/Amplifi Labs: https://www.amplifilabs.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/lTsYSl3t1TM

Tony chats with Matt Schmidt, about Ecopia IA. They work with the top Insurers to better understand their portfolios by providing them with location data. Ecopia's Building-Based Geocoding offers the first and only complete building footprint collection in the USA, paired with best-in-class address data. We leverage the most up-to-date geospatial imagery available to create a unique source of ground truth, ensuring that our data provides the most accurate representation of reality.Matt Schmidt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewschmidt4/Ecopia AI: https://www.ecopiatech.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/YaFePHut6h4

Two long-haired hippies chat about insurance careers. Sergi Ruiz was good in sales, very very good, and he was able to easily sell a product even great salespeople have a hard time selling: Life Insurance. This valuable skillset led him on a very fun adventure of a career in both insurance and now insurtech.Sergi Ruiz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergi-ruiz-b679ba8b/Video Version: https://youtu.be/4Dwyskbi6G8

Five-time best-selling author and insurance/insurtech executive Bryan Falchuk joins Tony on Profiles in Risk, to talk about his latest book: The Future of Insurance Vol III - The Collaborators. There's just so much to say about this episode, I just can't make it justice. Just listen to it, you won't regret it!Bryan Falchuk: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryanfalchuk/The Future of Insurance Series: http://future-of-insurance.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/MR97A-d0HNA

Tony chats with Cyrena Arnold, Meteorologist | 2019 TechProfessional of the Year | Union Leader 40 under 40 | Children's Book Author | Insurtech Leader.Cyrena: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wxcyrena/