Cindy Baroway - PIR Ep. 880

Tony chats with Chief Growth Officer GM at Covered Insurance, they were founded by two brothers frustrated by the insurance part of buying their first home 10 years ago. The mortgage piece was already tech enabled, but the insurance part wasn't. They started a brokerage focused on homeowners and it has grown to a 50-state national brokerage focused on seamless technology, education, and alignment with the mortgage and home-buying process. A very interesting story!Cameron Nordholm: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronnordholm/Covered Insurance: https://itscovered.com/

Tony chats with OZ Watkin, Co-Founder & CTO at Mastery AI, an intelligent platform that provides capabilities of AI intelligence for the insurance industry to help portfolio underwriters. In real time it helps underwriters understand the portfolio exposure on the book and underwrite more efficiently. We also have a very interesting conversation about bordereaux and how Mastery AI develops a neural network to digest your bordereaux files.OZ Watkin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozwaknin/Mastery AI: https://www.masteryai.io/

Tony chats with Rob Tinsley, President & Jason St. Peter, Chief Revenue Officer at Versatad, they are an AI-Native workforce orchestration engine dedicated to the workflows in healthcare, TPAs, and insurance carriers. A very interesting offering!Rob Tinsley: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-tinsleyceo/Jason St. Peter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonstpeter1/Versatad: https://www.versatad.com/

Tony chats with Jake Wells, Co-Founder at Meshed, the UK's first AI native commercial broker. They realized that 56% of a broker's time is spent chasing documents and they decided to fix that.Jake Wells: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jake-wells-a904347b/Meshed: https://www.meshedcover.com/

Tony chats with Suzanne O'Neil, CEO and Tim O'Neil, Founder & President of Aigis Point, they forecast the cyber threats most likely to affect an insured in the next 12 months with patent pending technology. Currently Cyber Security is based on what happened yesterday, Aigis Point is forward facing, predictive. They also give you a Get Well Plan to help you secure your cyber exposures. A very interesting conversation!Suzanne O'Neil: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanne-oneil-7490643b8/Tim O'Neil: linkedin.com/in/tim-o-22774918/?skipRedirect=trueAigis Point: https://www.aigispoint.net/

Tony chats with Bennett Borden, CEO at Clarion AI Partners. Attorney, Data Scientist, and AI Ethicist, Bennet Borden is a true unicorn in the interception of Law and AI. We have a fascinating conversation about what responsible deployment of AI in insurance should look like and much more. Don't miss this one!Bennett Borden: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennett-borden/Clarion AI Partners: https://clarionai.com/

Tony chats with Jimmy Paskell, Co-Founder & CEO at ButFor, an insurtech that models risks proactively and automates business interruption claims. Built by a forensic accountant and focused on helping policyholders it's a very interested model.Jimmy Paskell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmypaskell/ButFor: https://butfor.co/

Tony chats with Cindy Baroway, long-time insurance professional, former president of the CPCU Society, and former Executive Director of the RMI Program at the University of Colorado. This is a career conversation with great advice for the next generation of insurance professionals.Cindy Barroway: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindybaroway/

Tony chats with Kasey Roh, Head of US at Upstage AI, they are an enterprise AI startup building next generation intelligent document processing technology. They build end to end from pipeline to delivery with with best in class accuracy and performance with everything vertically integrated.Kasey Roh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaseyroh/Upstage AI: https://www.upstage.ai/

Tony chats with Curtis Barton, Founder & CEO at Alkeme. It started as an amalgamation of 7 agencies that came together with an idea that they'd be stronger together. Initially it was to get market access. Then they went from affiliate group to becoming a single agency, brought in private equity and became an owner operator model insurance agency. They focused on data integrity from day 1 and have grown from $25M in 2020 to $350M in 2025 and are now a Top 25 player! They also now offer "The Alchemy Collective". A fascinating episode about one of the most successful agencies of this decade.Curtis Barton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtisbarton/Alkeme: https://alkemeins.com/