Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Patrick Cooney, Co-Founder and President at PowerBroker AI. They serve retail and wholesale agencies with an "AI brain for insurance" which can audit a policy, tell you what's included and what's been omited. They are also in the process of building industry specialization for industries like construction.Patrick Cooney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-cooney1/PowerBroker AI: https://www.powerbroker.ai/Video Version: https://youtu.be/a6cGXfmo8dY

Tony chats with Tom McClintock of Empowered Margins. They are an insurtech that works with insurance organizations to help them with their underwriting and actuarial software.Tom McClintock: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommcclintock/Empowered Margins: https://www.empoweredmargins.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/Sm1OsXn28uM

Tony chats with Rock Schindler, Founder & CEO at SDRefinery AI, they are solving the growing problem that it takes too long for P&C claims leaders to identify processes, bottlenecks, and root causes of poor performance. They are solving that problem by reading every adjuster note and measuring key events, actions, and activities, creating operational metrics that radically increase the speed and efficiency of making the changes to improve claims outcomes.Rock Schindler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rock-schindler/SD Refinery AI: https://www.sdrefinery.com/

Tony chats with Johannes Kraus, Co-Founder at YOUTH Healthtech, a smartphone-based health screening. With just your phone and 2 minutes of your phone using a face video, an audio recording, and a picture of your eye, and with that they screen for 23 biomarkers in seven health areas 🤯. Johannes Kraus: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-kraus-948040151/Youth Healthtech: https://www.youth-healthtech.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/vpdN3uroWJA

Tony chats with Sandeep Haridas, EVP Business Head of Chief Strategy Officer at IntellectAI, they are focused on helping financial institutions build wealth management and insurance products. Within insurance they are a niche player focused on truly creating an underwriting ecosystem in the commercial insurance space. They are devoted and dedicated the art and science of underwriting.Sandeep Haridas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandeep-haridas-cpcu/IntellectAI: https://www.intellectai.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/k9xaW3LQJTc

The episode of Profiles in Risk features Dr. Yael Benvenisti discussing Israel's innovative culture in the insurtech sector. Key topics include:1. Israel's entrepreneurial spirit in insurtech2. Technology's role in transforming insurance, especially in gerontology3. The need for new underwriting models incorporating predictive technologies4. Global adoption of insurance technologyHighlights of the episode include:- Discussion of Israel's innovative insurtech ecosystem- Exploration of technology in gerontology, including social robots and passive monitoring devices- The importance of transforming insurance practices with new underwriting models- Emphasis on a customer-centric approach in insurance- Global perspectives on insurtech, with examples from Australia and Japan- Insights into the future of insurance, focusing on prevention and early detectionVideo Version: https://youtu.be/KxVzFTkIGrk

Lloyd Peters, Head of Revenue at Send, an underwriting workbench which is a single desktop that gives all underwriting a team a single place to work and progress core underwriting activity from broker submission all the way to binding and booking the policy. It includes all the activities you need in one place.Lloyd Peters: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lloyd-peters-7293983a/Send: https://send.technology/underwriting-workbench/

I chat with Lance Dowdell and Max Smith, Co-Founders at Motive Engage, they can help insurance agencies and insurtechs establish the foundation for their sales force: Proper sales processes, proper sales tech stack, understanding your ideal customer, onboarding your salespeople, sales enablement, getting your product/market fit right. Getting this right before bringing sales reps helps enable your success. On the marketing side they can also act as an outsourced content creator.Lance Dowdell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ldowdell/Max Smith: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-p-smith/Motive Engage: https://motiveengage.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/KjJ61MvHbXs

I chat with Rob Jacomen, Founder and Chief Growth Officer at HPX, they help insurance agents and brokers go from commoditized generalists to highly valued and respected specialist. They offer consulting and coaching to help you niche down, build, grow, and scale a book of business that dominates specific niches.Rob Jacomen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-jacomen/Video Version: https://youtu.be/8vnZ64dKHV8

Tony chats with John Loeber, Co-Founder and ceo at Limit, a digital platform that gives insurance brokers AI tools to make their day-to-day lives easier. Limit helps insurance professionals do deals faster, easier, and cheaper by taking care of the time-consuming things that kill their time. It offers a digital wholesale insurance platform with a universal application for many markets and almost instantaneous quoting. They now also offer Limit AI, an AI assistant knowledgeable about the insurance industry.John Loeber: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jloeber/Limit: https://www.limit.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/F1nfWtvbDGE