Profiles in Risk Insurance Nerds

Tony chats with Cory Schmidt, CTO & Co-Founder at AgencyBloc, an agency management system for Life and Health agencies. Started in 2008 out of the need for an AMS for Life and Health MGAs with a heavy focus on wholesaling. It has now grown into an all-encompassing wholesale and retail AMS.

Cory Schmidt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coryschmidt/
AgencyBloc: https://www.agencybloc.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/aqyLBmqLGsw

Tony chats with Vamsi Danturti about his career from India to the US, from Deloitte to Capgemini to SalesForce, and more. Great conversation about the IT side of insurance to the business side. Lots of great advice on this episode!

Vamsi Danturti: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vamsidanturti/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/iqxJGingPhQ

Tony has a career conversation with long-time insurance leader Kerry Macca. Kerry started in underwriting back in the manual coverage days. After 10+ years in underwriting, she transitioned to serve the industry at several vendors including LexisNexis, Microsoft, and CoreLogic. Lots of lessons in a fascinating insurance career.

Kerry Macca: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrymacca/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/40Yc47f9lyA

Tony chats with Tanya Coburn, VP of Marketing and Communications at Trufla about the upcoming Amplify Broker TechFest 2024 in Calgary, the biggest insurtech conference in Canada! 🇨🇦 🍁 We're giving away an all-access pass to the conference to anyone who comments below before end-of-day April 16th.

Tanya Coburn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyacoburn/
Amplify Broker TechFest: https://www.trufla.com/amplify/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/3uByysnPpYc

Tony chats with Raghav Tanna, Co-Founder and CEO at Tarmika. This is Raghav's first podcast appearance since the Applied acquisition. Tarmika is a small commercial rating platform designed to be an agency-facing tool that gets you multiple quotes from multiple carriers. Built over the course of five years before being acquired by Applied. Tarmika's goal is to save agency Account Managers a ton of time. A wonderful conversation about Tarmika, Raghav's career, and Epic.

Raghav Tanna: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raghav-tanna-659377100/
Tarmika: https://www.tarmika.com/

Tony chats with Jackson Fregeau, Co-Founder and CEO at Quandri. They are an automated and intelligence platform that helps agencies make better decisions and better revenue.

Jackson Fregeau: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackson-fregeau-073737158/
Quandri: https://www.quandri.io/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/wJpCSBrdgtU