Best CPCU Podcasts (2025)

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Tim Lovett, Head of Enterprise Division at Blitz - PIR Ep. 762 43:36

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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.b…

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Mel Faxon, Co-Founder & COO at Hey Mirza - PIR Ep. 761 28:28

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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.c…

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Rich Benci, CEO at Omega Benefits - PIR Ep. 760 14:09

2d ago14:09

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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…

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Nakita Devlin, CEO & Founder at Ric - PIR Ep. 759 45:13

3d ago45:13

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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 …

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Occurrence vs. Claims-made: The CGL Coverage Conversation 8:41

6d ago8:41

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In this quick and clear episode, Tammie D’Allura breaks down one of the most misunderstood topics in commercial insurance — the difference between occurrence and claims-made coverage in a Commercial General Liability (CGL) policy. Learn how timing determines coverage, what retroactive and extended reporting periods mean, and why choosing the right …

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Affordable Care Act In Less than 10 minutes! 7:09

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In this short, insightful episode, Tammie D’Allura unpacks the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — what it is, why it was created, and how it continues to shape today’s health insurance marketplace. You’ll learn the key features of the ACA, including essential health benefits, subsidies, and enrollment periods, plus how the law impacts individuals, familie…

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Medicare In Less Than 10 Minutes 8:14

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In this short and powerful episode, Tammie D’Allura breaks down Medicare in plain language — how each part (A, B, C, and D) works together to provide healthcare coverage for millions of Americans. You’ll learn the key differences between Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage, what’s covered, and why there is a Medicare Supplement- MEDIGAP option…

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Meet Your Insurance Educator 8:40

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Join Tammie D’Allura, an insurance professional with over 30 years of experience, as she simplifies the world of insurance. Each episode offers clear, practical insights on licensing, continuing education, Medicare, Property, Casualty, Life Insurance, ethics, entrepreneurship and real-world scenarios agents face every day. Whether you’re new to the…

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Danny Aronson, CEO and Ann Boger, COO at Tuned Care - PIR Ep. 754 45:02

6d ago45:02

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Tony chats with Danny Aronson, CEO and Ann Boger, COO at Tuned Care, they are revolutionizing hearing health benefits by helping employers offer full spectrum hearing care for their workers. Currently only 11% of workers have any hearing coverage and historically it's merely a discount on hearing aids. Tuned Care brings a much more comprehensive ap…

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Paul Vacquier, Founder & CEO at Beagle Services - PIR Ep. 755 28:54

6d ago28:54

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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 carrier…

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Mitch Matthews, Success Coach and Creator of the DREAM THINK DO Podcast - PIR Ep. 757 17:40

6d ago17:40

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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_MBy Insurance Nerds

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Liam Harreys, Co-Founder and CEO at ThreadWise - PIR Ep. 748 23:51

8d ago23:51

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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. Thei…

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Peter Teresi, Co-Founder & CEO at Certificial - PIR Ep. 756 40:40

6d ago40:40

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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 Certifi…

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Frano Sain, CEO at Hero Response - PIR Ep. 758 25:54

6d ago25:54

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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://h…

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Sharon Henzler - PIR Ep. 753 33:50

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Tony chats with Sharon Henzler, after about 8 years in the industry Sharon went to her first insurance conference, the Future of Insurance Fest at Santa Monica Pier. They chat about what the conference was like and how it changed her approach to insurance conferences going forward. A great listen for all early career insurance pros. Sharon Henzler:…

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Paul Prendergast, Co-Founder and CEO at Kayna - PIR Ep. 752 24:35

6d ago24:35

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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/_OYgTHmXE7IBy Insurance Nerds

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Love Redin, Co-Founder and CEO at Vantel - PIR Ep. 749 16:17

6d ago16:17

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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…

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Emma Corcoran, Strategic Facilitator, Women's Leadership Champion & Consultant - Ep. 750 26:49

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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_-BJHnUBy Insurance Nerds

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Gregg Golson - PIR Ep. 747 26:49

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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/ieaJ7VAAbQ8By Insurance Nerds

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Jake Tamarkin - Co-Founder & President at Everyday Life Insurance - PIR Ep. 746 32:31

6d ago32:31

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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 produc…

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Nishant Tomar, Chairman and CEO at DigsFact - PIR Ep. 751 35:30

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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: http…

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Santoash Rajaram, Founder at Stitch Studio - PIR Ep. 743 30:56

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Tony chats with Santoash Rajaram, Founder at Stitch Studio, they are building an insurance specific AI platform making AI agents. They believe that in order for AI to be adaptable to insurance organizations have to be able to embed them in the existing value chain of what’s happening in the organization already. And you need to create an infrastruc…

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Rose Hall - PIR Ep. 745 15:27

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Tony chats with Rose Hall about her fantastic career in insurance and innovation. Rose Hall: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rose-hall-pe/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/qnLiXvowv2gBy Insurance Nerds

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Toby Hung, Co-Founder and COO at 1Fort - PIR Ep. 744 20:29

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Tony chats with Toby Hung, Co-Founder and COO at 1Fort, they are an all-in-one solution for commercial insurance agents to grow revenue and save time and money. Their AI digs through your book and finds cross-sale opportunities, analyzes the risk exposures based on third party data, and even gives you talking points to make the sale. It can also he…

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Lars Helgeson, Founder and CEO at Easy Aftercare - PIR Ep. 739 25:00

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Tony chats with Lars Helgeson, Founder and CEO at Easy Aftercare, they have applied CRM technology to radically improve patient compliance through a series curated personalized text messages and videos leading to 30% better outcomes and 40% reduction in unneeded calls back to the providers office. An amazing example of how existing technology can b…

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Matan Slaghter, CEO at Armadillo - PIR Ep. 737 30:44

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Tony chats with Matan Slaghter, CEO at Armadillo, the first tech enabled home warranty program. Matan originally talked about Armadillo on Ep. 251 and now returns to give us an update and make an announcement of some unique improvements they have made to their offerings. Matan Slagter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matan-slagter/ Armadillo: https://w…

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Scott Thompson - PIR Ep. 740 23:26

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Tony chats with Scott Thompson, long-time insurance recruiter. We chat about the insurance industry past and present, especially when it comes to the recruiting environment. Scott Thompson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottthompsontn/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/I_SKhJBQ8ZQBy Insurance Nerds

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Patrick Girouard, Founder and CEO at District Cover - PIR Ep. 738 26:02

6d ago26:02

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Tony chats with Patrick Girouard, Founder and CEO at District Cover, they are a small business insurance platform solely focused on broadening insurance access within cities and especially areas where traditional carriers have shied away or struggled to serve. They underwrite at a block by block or even business by business level of granularity all…

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Arlind Mucaj - Ep. 741 40:55

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Tony chats with Arlind Mucaj, AVP CDO Exchange & Partnerships at Verisk, Chief Experience Officer at Insurtech Hartford about his career and what they're building at Insurtech Hartford. Arlind Mucaj: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arlind-mucaj-mba-scaled-agile-black-belt-831b03b/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/4qcRDSYVIwI…

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Todd Hawk, Founder and CEO At Elisa For Life - PIR Ep. 742 27:21

6d ago27:21

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Tony chats with Todd Hawk, Founder and CEO At Elisa For Life, they are an insurtech in the Life Insurance space solving a difficult issue in that space, the younger generation of buyers don't respond well to cold-calling or mailers. Elisa for Life is an embeddable digital advisor and digital sales assistant. The prospect answers a series of questio…

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Alicia Burke, Director of Portfolio and Product Development at The CAS Institute - PIR Ep. 736 26:52

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Tony chats with Alicia Burke, Director of Portfolio and Product Development at The CAS Institute, we chat about ICAS a wholly owned subsidiary of the Casualty Actuarial Society that offers analytics professionals and their employers the opportunity to certify skills specifically as applied to property and casualty insurance. Their Certified Special…

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Luis Ricci Maia, Co-Founder and COO at Trag - Ep. 735 32:51

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Tony chats Luis Ricci Maia, Co-Founder and COO at Trag, they are a Brazilian insurtech helping their clients understand climate risk they're facing in agriculture and help mitigate that risk through parametric and weather derivatives. Brazil is the largest exporter of crops in the world and only 10% of those crops have any insurance, so this is mas…

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Kerry Macca - Women in Insurance Initiative - PIR Ep. 734 25:52

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Tony chats with Kerry Macca about the Kerry Macca - Women in Insurance Initiative and their live event at the RISE Leadership Summit. Kerry Macca: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrymacca/ Women in Insurance Initiative: https://www.linkedin.com/company/women-in-insurance-initiative/posts/?feedView=all Video Version: https://youtu.be/bsDpdPt2JUo…

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Niti Jain, Founder & CEO at medml.ai - PIR Ep. 733 26:47

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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/ med…

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Michael Derkacz, Business Development at Ai.Law - PIR Ep. 732 43:04

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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 experie…

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Chris Bean, CEO & Co-Founder at Skytree Scientific - PIR Ep. 731 37:03

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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 …

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Les Schlesinger, Owner at Auto Insurance Consulting - PIR Ep. 730 34:56

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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/…

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Lucas Roberts, Wholesale Broker at Anzen Insurance - PIR Ep. 729 21:55

2M ago21:55

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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 thr…

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Dan Hill, National Director of Sales at CarFax - PIR Ep. 728 27:08

2M ago27:08

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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…

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Jeremy Jawish, CEO at Shift Technology - PIR Ep. 727 33:49

3M ago33:49

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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 w…

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Murtaza Ali, Co-Founder and CEO at Symphony - PIR Ep. 726 45:13

3M ago45:13

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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. …

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Grace Hanson, Co-Founder and CEO at Elysian - PIR Ep. 725 48:35

3M ago48:35

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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 re…

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Joseph Sigona, Head of Business Development at MGM Technology Partners - PIR Ep. 724 44:30

3M ago44:30

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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 cov…

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Brian Baughman, CPCU, ARM - ESOP Evangelist - PIR Ep. 723 56:44

3M ago56:44

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Brian Baughman, CPCU, ARM - ESOP Evangelist and VP of Sales at The Hartwell Corporation. We chat about why it makes sense for agencies to adopt an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and what the advantages are. All employees are automatically owners after roughly a year. This aligns incentives in a way virtually impossible in other types of owner…

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Chris Merideth, Candidate for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner - PIR Ep. 722 25:41

3M ago25:41

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Tony chats with Chris Merideth, Candidate for Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner. Chris Merideth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-merideth-a6b4a255/ Video Version: https://youtu.be/xrTdfGMQ4TQBy Insurance Nerds

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David Serna Perez, Account Executive at LivePerson - PIR Ep. 721 48:22

3M ago48:22

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David Serna Perez, Account Executive at LivePerson, they are an AI native company that has developed two AI agent assistant for the underwriter. They are mainly focused on MGA and underwriting teams. One is focused on MGA underwriting teams and the other one is focused on reinsurance brokers and underwriters. A great conversation with an experience…

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Daniel Palacios, Co-Founder and CRO at Sytrex - PIR Ep. 720 31:00

3M ago31:00

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Tony chats with Daniel Palacios, Co-Founder and CRO at Sytrex, they are an AI native company that has developed two AI Agents assistants for underwriters. They are mainly focused on helping MGA underwriting teams, basically co-pilots for insurance and reinsurance operations. They place underwriters in the center and take away the manual and boring …

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Charles Merritt, Co-Founder and CEO at Buddy - PIR Ep. 719 29:10

3M ago29:10

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Tony chats with Charles Merritt, Co-Founder and CEO at Buddy, the insurance gateway for people who build software. They help product teams and developers that are being tasked with integrating insurance APIs and help accelerate distribution of digital insurance products. Charles Merritt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesmerritt/ Charles first app…

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Bill Martin, President & CEO at Plymouth Rock Home Assurance - PIR Ep. 718 58:05

3M ago58:05

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Tony chats with Bill Martin, President & CEO at Plymouth Rock Home Assurance in a friendly debate about the merits of remote vs a full return-to-the-office (RTO). Bill Martin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billmartiniv/By Insurance Nerds

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Nadav Interstein, VP of Marketing at Swifter.io - PIR Ep. 717 53:54

3M ago53:54

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Tony chats with Nadav Interstein, VP of Marketing at Swifter.io, they started as a low-code no-code platform but they have now shifted and have aggressively focused on AI. Now they have created a software development life cycle tool that uses agentic AI to generate the entire software development life cycle process going from project definition all…