Tony chats with Zac Townsend, CEO at Meanwhile, the first and only life insurance company denominated in Bitcoin. Built in Bermuda with its entire balance sheet denominated in Bitcoin, and with a worldwide monopoly on Bitcoin life insurance, this is one fascinating conversation you should not miss! Zachary Townsend: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zactownsend/ Meanwhile: https://meanwhile.bm/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/uVBr-D8-Mvc

Tony chats with Charles Johnson, Head of Product Growth at Insuraviews, they provide strategic insights through advanced analytics of insurance rate filings. They take all the rate fillings through a robust ingestion process and layer on analytics and AI to give you powerful insights. This is a game changer, especially for smaller carriers that don't have a large competitive intelligence team. Charles Johnson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-johnson-actuary/ Insuraviews: https://www.insu...

Tony chats with Andrew Kelly about PLUS, the Professional Liability Underwriting Society. Tony is obsessed with insurance education but has spent his entire career on the P&C side. This is a great introduction to the world of continuing education on the Professional Liability side and why you should dive in! We talk RPLU, CPLP, Exec PLP, and more. Andrew Kelly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjkelly/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/hAPRbLjFDKA

Tony chats with award winning innovator Meg Duty, SVP at Puritan Life and Canvas Annuity. Puritan Life is a life carrier started in the 1950s which they have now turned into an all-cloud shop. They built Canvas Annuity, the first all digital annuity platform. An incredible story of true innovation, opening up a product to a whole new market, and all without alienating your existing distribution channels. Lots to learn from this one. A cannot miss episode! Video Version: https://youtu.be/tjh5x...

Tony chats with Chak Kolli, PhD, CTO at Magile Software. Insurance companies are struggling to understand the risks of AI and Magile Software is here to help them understand and manage that risk better. A fascinating conversation you cannot miss! Chak Kolli: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chak-kolli/ Magile Software: https://www.linkedin.com/company/magile-software/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/XT0q6dkFT6Q

Tony chats with Tim Lovett, Head of Enterprise Division at Blitz, they are a new fully digital API-enabled commercial lines E&S carrier that can service the entire distribution ecosystem from direct, to retailers, to wholesalers. Tim Lovett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timlovett/ Blitz: https://www.blitzinsurance.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/5ttJvASdaJ0

Tony chats with Mel Faxon, Co-Founder & COO at Hey Mirza, they are basically Turbotax for government benefits. Her Mirza is focused on helping lower income people connect with the variety of programs they might qualify for, from their home, in their native language. Mel Faxon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-faxon/ Hey Mirza: https://heymirza.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/dg3rZFa-cW4

Tony chats with Rich Benci, CEO at Omega Benefits, they help HR teams communicate benefit information to their employees, a task more complicated than I ever expected. Rich Benci: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richbenci/ Omega Benefits: https://omegabenefits.net/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/iFskLfY1Z0g

Tony chats with Nakita Devlin, CEO & Founder at Ric, the first parametric catastrophe product focused on the employee benefit market! Their parametric managing general agent will host micro parametric products with the first one being a parametric flood product for rain across the US. The plan is for this to be the first of many climate parametric products offered as an employee benefit. A very interesting concept and a conversation you shouldn't miss! Nakita Devlin: https://www.linkedin...

Tony chats with Nishant Tomar, Chairman and CEO at DigsFact, they are leveraging AI to accelerate virtual inspections both during underwriting and post-loss. They can help with property, vehicles, and toys. In 2 minutes the policyholder can do a guided video or photos and be done while getting the carrier all the info they need. Nishant Tomar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thenishanttomar/ DigsFact https://digsfact.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/2cR8yllASz4

Tony chats with Paul Vacquier, Founder & CEO at Beagle Services, they provide last mile deployment and expertise of leak detection technology facilitating partnerships with carriers and others needing to prevent water damage. Uniquely they use plumbers they hire as employees, not a contractor network. They provide water damage prevention to carriers in a device agnostic way. Paul Vacquier: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulvacquier/ Beagle Services: https://www.beagleservices.com/ Video Ve...

Tony chats with Love Redin, Co-Founder and CEO at Vantel, they build AI tools for middle market commercial insurance producers to help them process documents, find coverage gaps, compare quotes, review contracts, and more. Love Redin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/love-redin/ Vantel: https://vantel.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/V9lqVj8r9uY

Tony chats with Frano Sain, CEO at Hero Response, they offer a unique monitoring system that improves profitability and lowers waster on all water related claims. It saves the contractors from having to go back every day to see if the equipment has finished drying the loss. Frano Sain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franosain/ Hero Response: https://heroresponse.com/home Video Version: https://youtu.be/dhwqFws83ls

Tony chats with Emma Corcoran, Strategic Facilitator, Women's Leadership Champion & Consultant. We talk about her career in insurance and her work now as an independent consultant. Emma Corcoran: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-corcoran-1b851022/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/N_-V_-BJHnU

Tony chats with Jake Tamarkin - Co-Founder & President at Everyday Life Insurance, they are building the premiere life insurance platform for everyday people. They are an independent life insurance agency that caters to people that want to do business online. They use machine learning and other tools to help people find the best fitting Life product for them. Jake Tamarkin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-tamarkin/ Everyday Life: https://everydaylifeinsurance.com/ Video Version: https:/...

Tony chats with Liam Harris, Co-Founder and CEO at ThreadWise, they are a commercial co-pilot for commercial insurance communications starting with email. They believe that while commercial brokering is complex, the tools shouldn't be. Their goal is to clean the data before it gets dirty and allow brokers to do the work they're licensed to do. Their biggest focus to start with is the submission workflow. Liam Harris: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liam-harreys/ ThreadWise: https://threadwise.ai...

Tony chats with Peter Teresi, Co-Founder & CEO at Certificial, they are a network that sits between insurance and all other verticals focused on the certificate of insurance process from a PDF (that often needs to be made multiple times and only proves the policy was active at the time it got made) to a living document that is a truly smart Certificate of Insurance. Peter Teresi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete/ Certificial: https://www.certificial.com/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/F...

Tony chats with Mitch Matthews, Success Coach and Creator of the DREAM THINK DO Podcast. Mitch Matthews: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchmatthews/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/bRZWIj77y_M

Tony chats with Paul Prendergast, Co-Founder and CEO at Kayna, they make it easy for vertical SAAS company to do embedded insurance. Paul Prendergast: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulincork/ Kayna: https://www.kayna.io/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/_OYgTHmXE7I

Tony chats with Gregg Golson about his career in claims, his involvement in CPCU, advice for the next generation, and his consulting endeavors. Gregg Golson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregggolsoncpcu/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/ieaJ7VAAbQ8