The Insurtech Leadership Podcast

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Follow the Insurtech Leadership Podcast airing weekly hosted by Joshua R. Hollander. We give you up-close access and personal insights from the leaders of the fastest-growing #insurtechs and most innovative #insurance carriers and brokers. New episodes weekly.

Episode Date
Bringing New Innovations to Market Means Asking Your Customers First (w/Michael Nadel of Simon-Kucher)
Feb 19, 2024
The Fundraising Environment in Insurtech Remains Healthy if You Focus on the Following Things (w/Bhavan Suri, Managing Director at William Blair)
Feb 06, 2024
Bringing New insurance Ideas to Market By Understanding Existing Market Profitability & Product Solutions (w/Randel Bennett, Qixent Insurance)
Jan 29, 2024
What Does Disruption Look Like in Employer Health Insurance? A Call to Arms (w/David Contorno, CEO E Powered Benefits)
Jan 23, 2024
Designing for Scale: How We Built a Solution for Hundreds of Companies (w/Peter Tilbrook, Founder & CEO Loro)
Jan 16, 2024
Using Generative AI to Issue New Certificates of Insurance and Create a Lead Generation Opportunity (w/John Paul Sutrich, Co-Founder Certificate Hero)
Jan 08, 2024
An Extremely Motivating Story of Insurtech Success to Start 2024 - How We Built a Business That is Growing 30% a Year (w/David Embry & Belen Tokarski, CEO & COO of Mylo)
Jan 02, 2024
The US Has One of the Largest Socialized Healthcare Systems for 150m Americans But Insurtech Largely Ignores It (w/Joseph Schneier, CEO Trusty)
Dec 11, 2023
The Blue Ocean Opportunity for Insurance Agencies (w/John Morlan, CEO Smarter Risk)
Dec 04, 2023
Why Actuaries Who Aspire to Become Leaders Need to Have a Point of View (w/Jessica Leong, CEO Octagram)
Nov 27, 2023
What’s Different About Securing Insurance Data from Generative-AI Cyber Attacks? (w/Ian Paterson, CEO Plurilock)
Nov 13, 2023
Notarization - The Last Holdout from the Paper Age and How to Fix It (w/Joshua Stankard, CEO NotaryLive)
Nov 06, 2023
Spend Underwriters Time Wisely - They Are Your Key to Running a Profitable Book (w/Paul Monasterio, CEO Kalepa)
Oct 30, 2023
Why I Bet on Evolving the Insurance Model rather than Technological Disruption (w/Jeff Shi, Insurtech Groups)
Oct 23, 2023
How a Claims Processor Morphed into a Leading Insurtech - It’s All About the Workflows (w/Troy Stewart, COO Brush Claims)
Oct 16, 2023
Insurtech Investing to Save the Planet - Launching a $100M Climatetech Fund (w/Drew D’Alelio, Sr. Investor at VC Connecticut Innovations)
Oct 09, 2023
Creating the Venmo-Paypal of Insurtech with a Verified Data Layer for Insurance Customers (w/Tolga Tezel, CEO Canopy Connect)
Oct 02, 2023
Unlocking the Full Potential of Digital for Carriers’ Operating Models (w/Jamie Yoder, President & GM Sapiens N.A.)
Sep 26, 2023
Helping Patients and Insurers to Better Manage Chronic Conditions to Drive Down Costs (w/Michael Hennessy, CEO Diathrive Health)
Sep 18, 2023
Solving the Value Chain on Surety Bonds from Carrier to Broker to End Customer (w/Aaron Steffey and Chris Kolger, Propeller Bonds)
Sep 11, 2023
Insuring Expats, One of the Country’s Fastest Growing Insurance Segments (w/Daniel McChesney, CEO TripDoctor)
Sep 05, 2023
Creating a New Underwriting Advantage in Small Commercial Insurance (w/Bobby Touran, CEO Rainbow)
Aug 21, 2023
Implementing New Data Pipelines to Bring Life Insurance into the 21st Century (w/Nick Bowman, CEO Motif Insurance)
Aug 14, 2023
Helping Carriers Move from Risk-Sharing to Data-Sharing in the Multi-Family Residential Market (w/Alice Melendez, CEO of BOON)
Aug 07, 2023
How Do Insurers Address Financial Stress in the Millennials & Gen Z Workforce? (w/David Thorne, CEO Thumbscore)
Jul 31, 2023
Adapting Parametric Insurance to the Customer Needs of Today (w/Andrew Jernigan, CEO & Co-Founder of Insured Nomads)
Jul 24, 2023
Helping Underwriters Turn R&W Transaction Liability Insurance Into a Safer Policy (w/Layla Atya, CEO & Founder Quantumerge)
Jul 17, 2023
Why Financial Services Provided by Banks to Insurers and Agencies is Broken (w/Sven Gerlach, CTO Turris)
Jul 11, 2023
What’s Special About Insurtech? People Support and Share Data and Insights (w/Yuval Shafrir, Founder & CEO Urbanico)
Jul 03, 2023
Focusing on the Life of the Underwriter and Making It Better via Technology (w/Adam Cherubini, CRO Send)
Jun 26, 2023
Why to Make the Jump from a Traditional Insurer to a High-Growth Insurtech (w/Max McClure, SVP Underwriting & Reinsurance at Steadily)
Jun 19, 2023
Reinsurance on the Blockchain -- State-of-the-Art Report 2023 (w/Karn Saroya, CEO Re)
Jun 12, 2023
Lengthen Your Runway and Other Tips to Surviving a Down Market - (w/David Schapiro, Planck Co-Founder)
Jun 06, 2023
Learning from Real Stories of Insurance Change (w/Bryan Falchuk, Founder Insurance Evolution Partners)
May 30, 2023
Breaking Down Barriers for Insurtechs: Why We Launched a Non-Profit Industry Association (w/Bob Sargent & Doug Ver Mulm, InsurTech Association)
May 22, 2023
Large Language: GPT4 Can Handle Insurance But Isn’t Ready for Core Processes Just Yet (w/Tom Wilde, CEO Indico)
May 16, 2023
We Turned Employee Safety & Compliance Into an Insurance Product (w/Jason Berkowitz, Founder ArrowUp)
May 08, 2023
Rebuilding a 40-Year Old Company into a High-Growth Tech Platform for Agents (w/Jackson Cromer, President BondExchange)
May 01, 2023
Opening a Profitable Insurance Niche Market Means Finding Tribes (w/Blair Baldwin, CEO Boundless Rider)
Apr 24, 2023
Building New Insurance Platforms with a Customer-First Mindset (w/Yaron Ben-Zvi, Founder Haven Life)
Apr 17, 2023
How Insurers Can Price Companies Ability to Mitigate DEI Risk (w/James Felton-Keith, Inclusion Score)
Apr 10, 2023
Improving Access for First-Time Auto Buyers (w/Josh Minsky, CEO Suretys)
Apr 03, 2023
On Becoming a Pure-Play Software Technology Provider for Insurers (w/Shameem Shah, CTO InsurIQ)
Mar 27, 2023
Why Health Insurance Is Not Important -- Until It Suddenly Is (w/Dylan Slattery, CEO Excel Health Plans)
Mar 20, 2023
Finding Growth in Highly Regulated Channels (w/Will Prest, Managing Partner KWP)
Mar 13, 2023
Founder, Market, Product, Team: Why Adding Veteran Insurance Experience is Invaluable (w/Mike Mansell, American Family Ventures)
Mar 06, 2023
Learning About the New Insurance Marketplace at an Incumbent (w/Dan Findley, The Andover Companies)
Feb 28, 2023
Integrating Modern Digital Tools into Life Insurance (w/Mark Scafaro, CEO Afficiency)
Feb 20, 2023
How eCommerce Insurance Products Run on Real-time Data (w/Amit Batzir, Co-CEO Spott)
Feb 13, 2023
Creating Embedded Insurance for the Sharing Economy Market (w/Arik Shpak, Connected Insurance)
Feb 07, 2023
Translating Claims Stories into Predictive Models using AI (w/Sri Ramaswamy, CEO Charlee.ai)
Jan 31, 2023
What is Semi-Parametric Insurance in Social Media Cyber Protection (w/Rafael Broshi, CEO Notch)
Jan 24, 2023
A National Agency Just Created its own Brokertech Accelerator - Here’s What We Know (w/Dan Keough, CEO Holmes Murphy)
Jan 17, 2023
Personal Wellness as Insurance Growth Engine in 2023 (w/Danny Amir, CEO BetterTogether)
Jan 10, 2023
Providing the Connective Tissue for Construction Industry Insurance (Nyasha Gutsa, CEO at Billy)
Jan 03, 2023
Auto Claims: People Want to Move On, But Insurance Needs to Remember The Details (w/Itay Bengad, CEO Sensa Insurance)
Dec 13, 2022
The Miracle of Software Applied to Insurance (w/Dan Woods, CEO Socotra)
Dec 06, 2022
The Last 100 Years of Climate Data Can’t Be Used to Predict What Will Happen in the Next Ten (w/Steve Bennett, Chief Climate Officer at Demex)
Nov 28, 2022
Giving People More Choices for Long-term Healthcare in the Middle Market (w/Tom Beauregard, Founder & CEO at HCG Secure)
Nov 14, 2022
How Technology Has Enabled Digital Brokers to Improve Choice and Neutrality (w/Bryan Davis, Executive Vice President at HUB)
Nov 08, 2022
Generating More Useful Results for Reinsurers Using AI Systems (w/Isaac Hicks, CEO Slipbot)
Oct 31, 2022
How the Proliferation of Ridesharing Created a New $2B Insurance Segment (w/Les Schlesinger, CEO ClaimRide)
Oct 24, 2022
How Better Understanding Intent Drives Life & Health Insurability Scores (w/Sudhama Gopalan, AveriSana)
Oct 18, 2022
How Actuaries and Insurers Can Deal With Crypto (w/Eyhab Aejaz, CEO Breach)
Oct 10, 2022
Digital Underwriting Might Take Ten Minutes, but Insurance Remains About Personal Relationships (w/Upasana Unni at Sayata)
Oct 04, 2022
How an Actuary Repurposed His Math Skills, Founder an AI Company and Changed Company Ratings (w/Dr.Holger Bartel, CEO RealRate)
Sep 26, 2022
Why There Will Still Be Human Intermediaries for a Long Time (w/Mark Breading, Strategy Meets Action)
Sep 19, 2022
What are Legal Predictive Analytics? Adding Data Science to the Art of Claims Adjusting (w/Frank Giaoui, Optimalex)
Sep 13, 2022
Insurance Risk Monitoring for Decentralized Internet Transactions (w/Spyridon Antonopoulos, Solidus Labs)
Sep 06, 2022
Using Customer-Facing Employees Mobile Data to Boost CRM Assets (w/Josh Behar, CEO Mobile2CRM)
Aug 29, 2022
Why Hitting Insurance Innovation Singles is Just as Important as Home Runs (w/Dan Israel, MD Global Insurance Accelerator)
Aug 22, 2022
How Epigenetics are Helping Life Insurers Keep People Alive Longer (w/Jon Sabes, CEO FOXO Technologies)
Aug 15, 2022
How to Best Engage Early-stage InsurTech Venture Capital (w/Jason Gross, ManchesterStory)
Aug 08, 2022
Each Injured Worker Claim is an Incredibly Complex Array of Information (w/Tomas Vykruta, CEO EvolutionIQ)
Jul 26, 2022
How to Get Injured Workers Back to Work On-time and Healthy (w/Delanea Davis, CEO Cloud9)
Jul 18, 2022
How Regulators and Internal Risk Teams Can Test and Verify AI and ML (w/Anthony Habayeb, CEO Monitaur)
Jul 11, 2022
Early Insurtech Investors Thought they were Investing in SaaS, but Insurance is Very Different (w/Adrian Jones, HSCM Ventures)
Jul 05, 2022
Why are We All Paying Insurance as if We’re Terrible Drivers? (w/Rashid Galadanci, CEO at Driver)
Jun 28, 2022
Why is the Insurance Industry Trying to Reach us When We’re Watching Sports Games? (w/Daniel Demetri, CEO Trellis)
Jun 21, 2022
Building Trust in e-Commerce with Specific Liability Insurance (w/Roma Bronstein, CTO at Spott)
Jun 14, 2022
5 Lessons for First-time Entrepreneurs: Starting an Insurtech (w/Bob Frady, VP HazardHub acquired by Guidewire)
Jun 07, 2022
No-Code is Accelerating the Simplification and Standardization of Insurance Products (w/Vinod Kachroo, CEO Innoveo)
May 31, 2022
How to Engage Private Equity for Growth Capital (w/Kegan Greene, Jefferies)
May 24, 2022
When is the Right Time and What are the Right Reasons to Reach out to a Series A VC (w/Andy Lerner, IA Capital Group)
May 17, 2022
Brokers Don’t Need a PhD in Cyber to Launch it as a Profitable Business Line (w/Brian Fritton, CEO, Havoc Shield)
May 10, 2022
What People Don’t Know About Life Insurance Platforms (w/Qiyun Cai, Co-Founder at Amplify)
May 03, 2022
It’s One Thing to Be Able to Collect Data, Another to Predict It, and Yet Another to be Able to Use it Realtime (w/Woody Klemmer, Bill Conners at ForMotiv)
Apr 26, 2022
People Hate Shopping for Insurance, So Embedding is Key for our Industry (w/Matt Chesky, Insuritas)
Apr 19, 2022
Unlocking the Biggest Missed Opportunity for Insurance Customer Engagement of the Last Decade (w/Bobbie Shrivastav, CPO Benekiva)
Apr 12, 2022
Unlocking Under-served Insurance Markets by Embedding Insurance at the Right Place (w/Harry Croydon, CEO MIC Global)
Apr 05, 2022
What Speciality Underwriting Does and How Risk Capital Providers Work (w/Jeffrey Radke, Co-Founder & CEO at Accelerant)
Mar 29, 2022
How to Build Insurance Products that are Fun and Accessible to Everyone (w/Mike Cavanaugh, VP Insurtech Growth at Boost)
Mar 22, 2022
Why Being Investors in Early Technologies Put insurers at a Longer-Term Disadvantage (w/Matthew Jones, MD Anthemis)
Mar 15, 2022
Insurtech Hartford Helps Companies Grow and Prosper (w/Stacey Brown, Insurtech Hartford and AXA-XL)
Mar 08, 2022
We’re From a Tough Neighborhood, Independence and Innovation are our Culture (w/Kobi Bendelak, CEO Insurtech Israel)
Mar 01, 2022
Four out of Five Clients Want to Do Everything Online: Empowering Independent Agencies to Go Digital (w/Jason Keck, CEO at Broker Buddha)
Feb 22, 2022
Using AI to make the Automotive Claims Process Better (w/Eliron Ekstein, CEO, Ravin AI & Author, Forbes Technology Council)
Feb 15, 2022
Putting Equity and Diversity into the Heart of Insurtech (w/Elizabeth McCluskey, Director at CMFG Ventures, Cuna Mutual)
Feb 01, 2022
Using Data to Insure Construction Sites: Sensors, AI, Risk, Safety & Productivity (w/Stephen Buonpane, Co-Founder and CIO at Shepherd)
Jan 25, 2022
How Legal Can Take a Leading Role in your Innovation Efforts (w/Michael Lanza, EVP General Counsel, Selective Insurance Group)
Jan 18, 2022
Major Shifts in Mobility, Connectivity and Embedded Insurance (w/Tomer Kashi, CEO Voom)
Jan 11, 2022
Identifying Which Carriers are the Easiest to Collaborate with (w/David Gritz, InsurTech NY and Bryan Falchuk, Insurance Evolution Partners)
Jan 04, 2022
Meet The Godfather of Insurtech creator of Lemonade, D&O, Cyber, IP and Y2K Insurance (w/Ty Sagalow, Cofounder Assurely)
Dec 20, 2021
Why Relentless Customer Focus and Speed Trump Everything Else (w/Andrew Wynn, Co-Founder Ascend and Sheltr (acquired by Hippo))
Dec 14, 2021
Using Data Real-Time in Policy Systems (w/Sears Merritt, Head Technology & Data, MA Mutual Investments)
Dec 06, 2021
Data as a Growth Formula for Small Business Insurance Brokers (w/Matthew Ranauro, Founder & CEO Benefix)
Nov 30, 2021
How to Spot Embedded Insurance Opportunities (w/Gloria Guntiñas Vanzo, CEO MLTPLY and Pouch)
Nov 22, 2021
How We Signed 300 Agents in 6 Weeks: Key Lessons on Getting Quick Customer Adoption (w/Rahim Rajpar, CMO Plumlife)
Nov 16, 2021
We Saw 1,500 Insurtech Deals and Invested in 12: Here‘s Why. (w/Bill Keogh, COO Eos Venture Partners)
Nov 09, 2021
Three Reasons Why Digital Insurance Is Different than Traditional Insurance (w/Alex Frommeyer, CEO Beam Dental)
Nov 02, 2021
Finding the Biggest Opportunities in Life Insurance (w/Brian Kass, President CMFG Ventures at Cuna Mutual)
Oct 26, 2021
Insurtech is Transforming the Way Employees Interact with their Healthcare (w/Guy Benjamin, Co-Founder Insurights)
Oct 19, 2021
Insurance is Not a Commodity (w/Ben Grosser, Co-Founder Telivy)
Oct 12, 2021
Insurance Innovation is not a Game, Treat it Like a Business (w/Andrew Rear, Chairman of Buckle)
Sep 28, 2021
Big Data‘s Big Impact on Worker‘s Compensation and What to Expect in the Next Decade (w/Heather Wilson, CEO CLARA Analytics)
Sep 21, 2021
The Emergence of Chief Data Officers and their Importance to Insurers (w/Rob Rowello, Oracle VP Cloud Transformation)
Sep 14, 2021
Insurance is Just One Big Crowdfunding (w/Allen Kamrava, CEO Eusoh)
Sep 07, 2021
Understanding Business Goals and User KPIs to Create a Better User Experience (w/Richard Alvarez, Saggezza)
Sep 01, 2021
Why to Innovate the Simplest Things First (w/Itai Ben-Zaken, CEO Honeycomb )
Aug 24, 2021
Give People the 'Psychological Safety' to Innovate (w/Richard De Sousa, SCOR)
Aug 17, 2021
Don't be Surprised by Market Feedback - Be Dynamic & Adapt Fast! (w/Doug Roth, Insurtech Investor at Connecticut Innovations)
Aug 10, 2021
Managing the Frequency vs. Severity of Claims (w/Doug Ver Mulm, CEO Stable Insurance)
Aug 03, 2021
Be Omnipresent for the Customers Who Really Need You (w/Nestor Solari, Founder SIGO)
Jul 27, 2021
It's Getting Incredibly Hard to Find Yield - Why We Need More Innovative Products (w/Paul Tyler, CMO Nassau Re)
Jul 20, 2021
Prediction Has a Value - Why Insurance Should Stop Bad Things from Happening (w/ Blake Hill, Dacadoo)
Jul 13, 2021
What's Killing Companies is not Lack of Analytics, it's Bad Data (w/Michael Davis, eGGHEAD Ai)
Jun 28, 2021
Customers are Used to an Amazon Experience (w/ Nick Gerhart, Chief Innovation Officer, Homesteaders Life)
Jun 22, 2021
3 Reasons Why There Will Be 199 More Lemonades over the Next Decade (w/Dave Bruno, Founder Red Planet Ventures)
Jun 15, 2021
Staying Committed to Change During the Ups & Downs (w/Bobby Touran, CEO Pathpoint)
Jun 08, 2021
Identifying the Sweet Spot for Improving Customer and Carrier Experience in Claims (w/Tim Christ, Claimatic)
Jun 01, 2021
Why Everyone Wants to be the next Lemonade - Top Trends to Watch in Insurtech (w/Alan Walters, VP Insurance Research, Conning)
May 25, 2021
What Insurers Can Do to Prevent Being on the Wrong End of the Creative-Destructive Process (w/Jay DeVivo, CoFunder)
May 18, 2021
Making Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Effective by Knowing What You Stand For (w/Cynthia Hardy, Pivot Partners)
May 12, 2021
What it's Like to Build a Lab at a 200-year old Insurer? (w/Christopher Lowell, ex-Head Innovation Lab at The Hartford)
May 04, 2021
A +3-Year Review of the Predictions in 'The End of Insurance as We Know It' (w/Rob Galbraith, Author)
Apr 20, 2021
AI is not a Tech project, it's a Whole-Company Initiative (w/McGregor Faulkner, McKinsey)
Apr 13, 2021
How AI Learns to Read Insurance Policies (w/Ron Glozman, Founder Chisel AI)
Apr 06, 2021
Insurtech's Two Biggest Competitors (w/Jim Dwane, CRO Bolt Solutions Inc.)
Mar 30, 2021
People with Experience and Relationships Make a Scalable Company (w/Mike Kalen, CEO Covr Technologies)
Mar 23, 2021
Take Your Technology and Create Impact (w/Phil Budden, MIT Senior Lecturer)
Mar 16, 2021
Until you can be a Unicorn, be a Cockroach! (w/Charles Merritt, CEO Buddy)
Mar 09, 2021
No One Will Hold It Against You If You Run an Initiative and Fail (w/Dror Katzav, CEO Atidot)
Mar 02, 2021
Actuarial science vs. Data science: Who Wins? (w/Jason Wootton, Founder Motionauto)
Feb 23, 2021
What should you be spending on outside law firms? (w/Raj Goyle, CEO Bodhala)
Feb 16, 2021
Every Area of Insurance will be Transformed by Technology (w/Jon Kelly, Founder Kelly Klee)
Feb 09, 2021
Meet the "Morningstar of Life Insurance" (w/Barry Flagg, Veralytic)
Feb 02, 2021
IoT Data is a Matter of Business Strategy (w/ Matteo Carbone, IoTinsObs)
Jan 25, 2021
Realizing that Your own Networks are Biased (w/ Huw Edwards, CEO CyberFortress)
Jan 18, 2021
This Industry Touches Every Industry (w/ Charlie Sidoti, ED InnSure)
Jan 11, 2021
Don’t Make New Year’s Resolutions, Make a Yearly Motto! (w/ Dustin Yoder, CEO Sureify)
Dec 28, 2020
Most People are Really Good People (w/ Cory Isaacson, CEO reThought Insurance)
Dec 21, 2020
Taking Over as CEO (w/ Jennifer Carroll, CEO Veruna, Inc.)
Dec 14, 2020
How to Create AI products with Authentic Demand (w/ Larry Lafferty, CEO Velocity AI Works)
Dec 08, 2020
The Billion-Dollar Micro-Insurance Opportunity (w/ Dr. Kyshun Webster, CEO Compassion Society Benefits)
Dec 01, 2020
Why to Get People Excited About What You're Doing (w/ Ian Jeffrey, CEO Breathe Life)
Nov 24, 2020
People Committed to the Cause vs. Employees (w/ Anurag Shah, CEO Aureus Analytics)
Nov 06, 2020
Why Real Leaders Listen to Their People (w/ Max Drucker, CEO of {Carpe Data)
Oct 22, 2020
Taking My Company Remote (w/ Phil Reynolds, CEO of BriteCore)
Oct 08, 2020