Best Christopher G Mcdaniel Podcasts (2025)

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Becoming a Change Agent in the Insurance Industry with Courtney Davis 21:20

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12d ago21:20

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Courtney Davis is the Executive Vice President and Global Education Practice Leader at HUB International. Courtney was a guest on the podcast back in 2022 and has returned for a follow-up interview at the RIMS 2025 Conference in Chicago. She reflects on changes in her career, what it means to effectively educate and engage across a network, and how…

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Pivoting From Pro Golf to Pro Insurance Broker with Kyle Thompson 33:39

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Kyle Thompson is the Senior Vice President in Risk Management at Arthur J. Gallagher, where he leads large teams on complex risk. He played pro golf for 17 years before pivoting to risk management in 2019. In this live from RIMS 2025 episode, Kyle reflects on the ways that his golf career prepared him for risk management. He highlights the similari…

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Outsourcing Risk Management with John Kempton 19:51

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John Kempton is a Senior Consultant at FHS and is responsible for advising clients on program design and implementation, negotiating contracts, and implementing overall risk management strategy. Before joining FHS, John was the Southeast Zone Real Estate Leader and Senior Vice President for Marsh in Washington, DC. John entered the insurance indust…

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Insurance for Every Sector, Including Nuclear Energy with Kate Fowler 30:07

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Kate Fowler is the Global Head of Nuclear at WTW and a certified fire protection specialist. She previously contributed to Marsh’s Global Specialty Energy & Power team, where she worked to advance nuclear energy initiatives. In this live from RIMS 2025 Chicago episode, Kate offers an insight into this highly specialized sector of risk management, i…

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How Do You Best Measure Dependency Risk? 34:27

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Sean Rider is the Chief Revenue Officer at One Concern, a firm that transforms risk into resilience and calculates how to make disasters less disastrous. There’s a fundamental problem happening in the world today and that’s digital infrastructures are failing. How do you best calculate when these electronic systems will fail, and plan for it? Sean …

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A Behind-The-Scenes Look into Spatial Insurance and How it Works 13:26

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Christopher G. McDaniel is joined by Matt Schmidt from Ecopia AI. Matt is a Senior Associate and uses geospatial data to better calculate insurance and financial risk. In this week’s episode, Matt breaks down the importance of spatial insurance and how it works. At this current time, his firm is focused on creating a digital twin of earth, and they…

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How to Better Identify and Manage Risk Through the Use of Analytics 28:36

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AIR Worldwide is one of the top data solution providers in the catastrophe modeling world. AIR provides risk modeling software and consulting services that make individuals, businesses and society more resilient to extreme events. Today, Chris welcomes Bill Churney, president of AIR Worldwide. He’s responsible for setting global strategy and overse…

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What the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) is Requesting on Climate Change 34:59

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In August, the US Department of the Treasury announced that the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) will be requesting information from the insurance and climate sector as a response to President Biden’s May 2021 Executive Order on climate change. In this episode, Chris welcomes Dale Porfilio, Chief Insurance Officer of Insurance Information Institute (…

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How to Evolve the Catastrophe Model to Take Advantage of Technical Advances 22:15

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In this Catastrophe Resilience Network episode, Chris McDaniel welcomes Dickie Whitaker, CEO and one of the founders of Oasis Loss Modeling Framework. Dickie also co-founded and worked for The Lighthill Risk Network, FiNexus Ltd, Oasis Palm Tree Ltd, and the Oasis Hub. He shares his insights of the current catastrophe model and how it should be ado…