Founder

Jeff McCann, CEO & Founder of APOLLO

Jeff McCann, CEO & Founder of APOLLO

In this episode, Jeff McCann, CEO and Founder of APOLLO, and Gilad Shai talk about APOLLO, an online insurance company based out of Vancouver, Canada, merch, Jeff's vision, investors, and Good to Great.

our focus is really underwriting a really good business and proving that the algorithms we create can actually price and underwrite good loss ratios

David McFarland, CEO and Founder of Coterie

David McFarland, CEO and Founder of Coterie

In this episode, David McFarland and I talk about Coterie, empowering the Small Medium Business (SMB) insurance with APIs and a digital binding authority. David elaborates on working with other startups and his team.

We're definitely more on the MGA, MGU side. We think of ourselves as like the manufacturer of insurance.

Robert Smithson - JUST Insurance

Robert Smithson - JUST Insurance

Robert Smithson, CEO & Founder of JUST Insurance (Insurer), talks about JUST, fair insurance, telematics, sports betting, and Robert's interview hat.

Consumers don't care about telematics. I care about telematics because it means that I can keep the best risks.

Avi Tuschman - CIO and Founder of Pinpoint Predictive

Avi Tuschman - CIO and Founder of Pinpoint Predictive

Avi and I talked about the emerging field of the 5-factor psychometric model, psychometric AI, privacy, underwriting, predicting fraud at scale, customer retention, and The Hunger Games' latest book.

(claims) …using only our enrichment features we answer the question “how much more likely is this person to misrepresent themselves compared to average”

Avi Bartov - GamaSec

Avi Bartov - GamaSec

In this episode, I had a very interesting conversation about Cybersecurity with Avi Bartov, the CEO and co-founder of GamaSec. GamaSec provides pre-breach services helping commercial lines insurance brokers and carriers to manage risk and provide cybersecurity education to their policyholders.

…they (small, medium businesses) do not have the same budget, they do not have an IT security department, they do not have the IT people in order to solve those security issues. Therefore they are more open to be a target to the hackers.