Profiles in Risk

Returning guest Myranda Elizabeth Joseph discusses her immense career growth since her previous appearance on the show. She shares advice for new insurance professionals and reflects on personal and professional development. The podcast also explores the challenges of conducting CBCU with young kids and landing a job at Westfield. They discuss the trajectory of becoming a territory manager in the insurance industry and the importance of building meaningful relationships with agents. Advice is given on furthering education and the value of finding the right program and study methods.

Nick interviews Nick Fekula and Josh Zier at Project Canary, a climate technology company that offers an enterprise emissions data platform to help companies identify, measure, understand, and act to reduce their emissions across their value chain. They use sophisticated software to help companies improve, report, and really understand their emissions. They also offer an environmental risk assessment.Nick Fekula: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-fekula-60516898/Josh Zier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-zier-925ab9133/Project Canary: https://www.projectcanary.com/YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/GOkwOjzNSlg

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