

Profiles in Risk
Insurance Nerds
The largest insurtech podcast going on 700+ episodes. This is not your grandpa's insurance industry!
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Sep 4, 2025 • 27min
Niti Jain, Founder & CEO at medml.ai - PIR Ep. 733
Tony chats with Niti Jain, Founder & CEO at medml.ai, the first underwriting platform created by actuaries. After 10 years of experience in pricing Life, Health, and P&C she was tired of extremely manual underwriting processes so they set out to create a better underwriting platform.Niti Jain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niti-nj-jain-b6083b73/medml.al: https://medml.ai/Video Version: https://youtu.be/w9hE4ZJn9Ps

Sep 3, 2025 • 43min
Michael Derkacz, Business Development at Ai.Law - PIR Ep. 732
Tony chats with Michael Derkacz, Business Development at Ai.Law and Ai.Claims. They are a single claim file application, they generate a claims analysis report that summarizes complicated files and it does very powerful analysis to superpower your claims adjusters. It provides next steps for the claim and helps newer adjusters think like an experienced adjuster!Michael Derkacz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-derkacz-6b4549113/AI.Claims: https://Ai.ClaimsVideo Version: https://youtu.be/-bmz4aBlMLU

Sep 2, 2025 • 37min
Chris Bean, CEO & Co-Founder at Skytree Scientific - PIR Ep. 731
Tony chats with Chris Bean, CEO & Co-Founder at Skytree Scientific, they are revolutionizing how insurers assess lightning risk. Their platform analyses property data and delivers a risk score in minutes allowing for faster underwriting, better pricing, and fewer losses. It also generates mitigation strategies for the policyholder. This technology came from an engineering process in Europe and is now available at an affordable cost for the insurance industry. A super interesting conversation you shouldn't miss!Chris Bean: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-bean-tech/Skytree Scientific: https://skytreescientific.ai/Video Version: https://youtu.be/eYwETZkCOMs

Aug 28, 2025 • 35min
Les Schlesinger, Owner at Auto Insurance Consulting - PIR Ep. 730
I chat with Les Schlesinger, Owner at Auto Insurance Consulting, he has 35 years of experience in all aspects of the Auto Insurance space and is now offering that expertise to carriers, MGAs, etc who need help in Product, Marketing, Claims, Litigation, etc.Les Schlesinger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/les-schlesinger-039a3510/

Aug 27, 2025 • 22min
Lucas Roberts, Wholesale Broker at Anzen Insurance - PIR Ep. 729
Tony chats with Lucas Roberts, Wholesale Broker at Anzen Insurance, they aim to offer the best technology combined with the best wholesale broker offering Cyber, Specialty Commercial, E&O, D&O and EPLI. Their software analyzes submission data and allows sending to various markets in one click while still having a broker that can really walk you through difficult risks.Lucas Roberts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-roberts-a70612a5/Anzen Insurance: https://anzen.com/

Aug 25, 2025 • 27min
Dan Hill, National Director of Sales at CarFax - PIR Ep. 728
Tony Chats with Dan Hill, National Director of Sales at CarFax, you probably think of CarFax as the people who get you a report on a used car before you buy it but for the insurance world they do a lot more!Dan Price: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danghill/CarFax: https://www.carfaxforinsurers.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/3CepVh9BO7o

Aug 20, 2025 • 34min
Jeremy Jawish, CEO at Shift Technology - PIR Ep. 727
I chat with Jeremy Jawish, CEO at Shift Technology, they are a vertical AI company providing solutions for the insurance industry helping us make better decisions. They already serve 70% of the US P&C market for AI fraud detection! They just launched the Insurance Data Network, which will allow carriers to better share claim claims and fraud data with each other. This is a huge deal! A very important episode to listen to!Jeremy Jawish: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-jawish/Shift Technology: https://www.shift-technology.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/eOkxvmKNhY8

Aug 19, 2025 • 45min
Murtaza Ali, Co-Founder and CEO at Symphony - PIR Ep. 726
Tony chats with Murtaza Ali, Co-Founder and CEO at Symphony, they have created a voice AI to build role plays to train insurance professionals. These fully dynamic voice AI agents can provide full conversations for practice, including on really complex conversations. Then it can analyze both the content and the emotional parts of the conversation.Murtaza Ali: https://www.linkedin.com/in/-murtazaali/Symphony: https://www.getsymphony.co/Video Version: https://youtu.be/k6r3X69wdVw

Aug 18, 2025 • 49min
Grace Hanson, Co-Founder and CEO at Elysian - PIR Ep. 725
Tony chats with Grace Hanson, Co-Founder and CEO at Elysian, they are an AI native TPA that handles claims end-to-end. They build the best tech and combine it with highly experienced adjusters and it results in better handling of commercial claims. The whole company and their processes are truly based on what adjusters really do and the way they really think.Grace Hanson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-hanson/Elysian: https://elysian.is/Video Version: https://youtu.be/dfSH6G6Mtkc

Aug 12, 2025 • 45min
Joseph Sigona, Head of Business Development at MGM Technology Partners - PIR Ep. 724
Tony chats with Joseph Sigona, Head of Business Development at MGM Technology Partners, they bring complex scalable enterprise level applications to production. They can be the one stop shop in all of the pieces to get your application into production. From planning, to building, QA support, all the way through integration. Their Cosmo platform covers the whole value chain of insurance from risk management, through quoting, binding, and all the way through accounting, all in a modular format. Cosmo in built on the A12 platform, the product of 30 years of experience building enterprise level systems allowing you all of the flexibility you need, with less of the work.Joseph Sigona: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joesigona/MGM Technology Partners: https://www.mgm-tp.com/Video version: https://youtu.be/Urzj9Nu3LlA


