Profiles in Risk – Details, episodes & analysis

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/tjh5xgSPbPs

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 Version: https://youtu.be/07Rlr73X3CU

Kyle Geoghan, Co-Founder and CEO at Indemn, an AI agents platform focused solely on insurance enabling MGAs, insurance carriers, and brokerages to build AI agents that people can call, text, or email to help with sales and service workloads. This is not only an amazing technology, but also an amazing conversation. You don't want to miss this one!

Kyle Geoghan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylegeoghan/
Indemn: https://www.indemn.ai/

Video version: https://youtu.be/2F4mT0n1bOg

Tony chats with NavaJeevan Rajaiah, Founder & CEO at InsOps, an insurtech focused on helping P&C insurers fully transition data away from legacy systems. They help their customers sunset their legacy system by taking their data from the old system and seamlessly putting it into the modern platform of their choice. Using AI they do it exponentially faster and more cost effectively and can get you to the point where you can actually pull the plug on the old AS/400!

NavaJeevan Rajaiah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/navajeevan-rajaiah-bb67903/
InsOps: https://insops.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/COiq1xj3y6Y

Catrin Townsend, Director of Education at PriceWriters and Author of "A Risky Business: An Actuary's Guide to Quantifying and Managing Risk in Society". We talk about her career, how she fell in love with insurance, especially the actuarial profession, and her book.

Catrin Townsend: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catrin-townsend-608b44234/
A Risky Business: https://amzn.to/4irPTzm
Price Writers: https://pricewriters.com/
Prior Episode about Price Writers: https://youtu.be/K9Wnp-MnVEs?si=y8gAXVI4O-iSrkrm

Video Version: https://youtu.be/eQatIM2LmpQ

Tony chats with Shannon Elsea, Founder SettlementDoneEasy. Checks have largely disappeared in the regular economy, but they continue to be the norm in paying out insurance settlements in attorney-represented claims. The process hasn't changed much in decades and that's what SettlementDoneEasy fixes. Last year in the US, over $1 billion worth of checks were stolen in the snail mail and sold on the dark web. 55% of all paper checks written last year were written by insurance carriers! SettlementDoneEasy provides a secure digital system to completely get rid of paper checks in the attorney-repped claims process!

Shannon Elsea: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-elsea-3265a5126/
SettlementDoneEasy: https://SettlementDoneEasy.com

Video Version: https://youtu.be/B35eMW9yRkw

Tony chats with Jack Miller, Co-Founder and CEO at nettle, they work in commercial insurance helping underwrite large assets like factories, marine vessels or oil rig by enabling the Risk Engineering process to be done much more efficiently and effectively.

Jack Miller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-nettle/
nettle: https://www.getnettle.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/OpaQv5Mw1Pc

Tony chats with Mike Gulla, CEO and Co-Founder, Adaptive Insurance, they are an AI technology platform that is creating climate resiliency products for commercial businesses across the US. Starting with a suite of parametric products allowing customers to get short duration products for different things that will impact the financial resilience of their business .

Mike Gulla: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gulla-32299749/
Adaptive Insurance: https://www.adaptiveinsurance.com/

Video version: https://youtu.be/guxrLCvDZdQ

Tony chats with Amy Cooper, Founder at RISE, about the upcoming RISE Leadership Summit & Award Gala in Fort Lauderdale and so much more about this incredible organization!

Amy Cooper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-sarah-cooper/
RISE Leadership Summit & Award Gala: https://riseprofessionals.com/events/2025-leadership-summit-awards-gala/
RISE: https://riseprofessionals.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/tZna3bCi88U