Councilcast

Q&A with Scott Robertson, Managing Partner, KPISoft

The Council Foundation’s 2018 Dave Oberkircher Future Leaders Scholar, Samantha Dever, shares her internship experience at the Marsh & McLennan Agency and what the scholarship meant to her at The Council’s 2019 Employee Benefits Leadership Forum.

Nick Bellanca, Executive VP, Sales & Business Development

Justin Oliver, Senior Director, Business Development for Employee Benefits, CyberScout Ann Barron-DiCamillo, Vice President of Cyber Threat Intelligence and Incident Response at American Express

Broker Buddha CEO Jason Keck discusses technology as a tool for solving administrative burdens for brokers and their clients.

Sandy Laycox, editor-in-chief of Leader’s Edge magazine, sat down with John Swigart of Pie Insurance and Jayant Lakshmikanthan of Clara Analytics to discuss their respective business models and their plans for the future. Pie Insurance is a small-business focused full-stack Managing General Agent (MGA) that has used digital advances to streamline the quote-bind process in an effort to confront the issues small businesses typically have in securing coverage. Clara Analytics also operates in the Workers’ Compensation space and uses AI and machine learning to attack inefficiencies and reduce operational claims costs for commercial Workers’ Compensation.

Q&A with Patrick Costello from Evolve MGA by A Council Platform

Keith VanderZanden of Advanced Professionals Insurance and Benefits Solutions sits down with The Council’s Katie Oberkircher to talk AHPs.

Interview with Mike Cormier, head of Sales and Business Development at Risk Match by A Council Platform

Andrew Robinson, co-CEO of Groundspeed Analytics, sat down with The Council’s Rob Boyce to examine what inspired Groundspeed Analytics. Through leveraging AI and machine learning, Groundspeed can turn unstructured data into structured data, allowing brokers to better understand their own book of business and offer clients tangible insights into their policies.

Indio provides a white label, open API platform to agents and brokers that seeks to streamline the application process by, for example, piping data across multiple policy applications so a client needs only to answer a question once.

The Council’s Senior Vice President of Strategic Resources & Initiatives, Cheryl Matochik, interviews Nick Shalek of Ribbit Capital. This podcast offers a unique view of insurtech investment through the fintech venture capital firm lens with a message brokers: get out in the action and engage; just monitoring won’t give you what you will need.

In this podcast, The Council’s Director of Market Intelligence & Insights Rob Boyce hosts Coalition’s CEO Josh Motta to discuss Coalition’s mission to solve cyber risk by drawing on the wealth of available data to provide cyber coverage to SMBs. Structured as a MGA, Coalition sells its product through brokers and offers free cyber risk management technologies and services. “There is more data available now than in all of human history,” Motta said. “Let’s take advantage of it.”

The Council’s Content Specialist, Market Intelligence & Insights, Katie Oberkircher, interviews Scott Sinder, partner at Steptoe & Johnson and chief legal officer for The Council, as he breaks down the new Association Health Plan (AHP) regulation and cites key items for brokers to understand.

The Council's Rob Boyce is interviewing a series of attendees at the 2018 InsureTech Connect Conference. Up first is Bold Penguin.

Sandy Laycox, editor in chief of Leader’s Edge magazine, and Rick Pullen, the publication’s founding editor, talk about what goes into publishing an award-winning magazine, following the six 2017 Association Media & Publishing EXCEL awards that Leader’s Edge recently received.

Updates and Insights from The Council’s government affairs team on technical implementation details for the tax bill, why ACA repeal is fading while Single Payer discussion increases, the possibility of an NFIP lapse, a roundup of recent primary elections and more.

Cyber regulation is under way in the U.S., and data protection is about to be implemented in the EU. Kevin Kalinich, global practice leader for cyber/network risk at Aon, discusses the financial impact of cyber events, the possibility of insuring against GDPR penalties, and why compliance with GDPR is ultimately beneficial.

Updates and insight on reauthorization efforts around the National Flood Insurance Program, data breach notification requirements, GDPR, the state of play for healthcare, DC politics and the midterms ahead. We’ve got it all covered.

The Council had the opportunity to sit down with Jonathan Pope, CEO of Corax, a cyber-risk analytics platform and broker tool for cyber insurance distribution. JP addresses some of struggles that brokers and carriers face when selling and pricing cyber coverage, the lack historical data in the cyber industry, and what needs to happen for the cyber insurance market to mature.