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Hosted by Zinnia · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 21 episodes
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Welcome to The L&A Hub — where innovation in life insurance and annuities gets put to the test. Host Paul Tyler sits down with leaders from carriers, distributors, partners, and startups to break down the experiments, decisions, and systems driving real change in the life insurance and annuity industry. Learn what worked, what didn’t, what they learned — and what’s next. New episodes weekly. The Life and Annuity Hub. Brought to you by Zinnia.
Zinnia hosts The L&A Hub, a business show with 21 episodes published.
Frank Chechel — VP and Head of Individual Life Underwriting at Gen Re, and an actuary who "fell into" underwriting a decade ago when a boss asked him to build an underwriting R&D team — makes the case that after a hundre
Josh Hershman has done something almost no one in insurance regulation has done: he's been a private attorney, a deputy commissioner, the executive director of an open-source data standards project, and the CEO of a life
Chris Orestis has spent 30 years — first as a Capitol Hill and White House staffer, then as a three-time company founder — trying to fix the equation American families face when long-term care hits. In this conversation,
Jeff Tulloch spent 25 of his 30 years in insurance at MetLife, where he built PlanSmart into one of the industry's first true enterprise financial wellness programs — reaching roughly 40% of the Fortune 500 and millions
Tina Beckwith, CMO of LIMRA and LOMA, debriefs the inaugural Best Minds Retirement Symposium and explains why the industry can only fix the annuity perception problem together. She unpacks a counterintuitive discovery —
Ryan Hinchey has one of the more unique résumés in the annuity business: actuary, Amsterdam expat, Silicon Valley insurtech veteran, and now SVP of Product Innovation at AmeriLife — one of the country's largest distribut
Wei Chen is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Business and co-leader of the Digital Frontiers Initiative. Over the last three years he's made generative AI his mission — graduate courses,
This isn't a one-guest show. Paul brings together three of the industry's sharpest voices on retirement income — Joe Jordan, Ted Rosedale, and George Bain — for a roundtable on what's actually changing in retirement plan
Brian Poppe has done something rare in L&A: he started as an actuary, founded Mutual of Omaha's innovation practice as the entire department of one, served as Chief Data Officer, and now runs the company's life insurance
Branislav Nikolic spent nine years at CANNEX, wrote a PhD dissertation on retirement and annuity optimization, and was doing machine learning back when it was still called machine learning. Today he runs the insurance pr
Ramsey Smith — former Goldman Sachs life insurance banker, Genworth board director, and Founder/CEO of ALEXIncome — argues that the next great wave of guaranteed income won't come from agents or RIAs. It will come from t
Ramsey Smith — former Goldman Sachs life insurance banker, Genworth board director, and Founder/CEO of ALEXIncome — argues that the next great wave of guaranteed income won't come from agents or RIAs. It will come from t
James Wong built a massive IMO from scratch, sold it to a Fortune 500, and then launched The Founder's Chair — an insurance-focused angel investing platform that has funded 17 companies and deployed $11M+ in two and a ha
Patrick Kelly, Co-Founder and CEO of Signal Advisors, breaks down his IMO 4.0 thesis — the idea that modern IMOs should implement best practices through technology, not just teach them. From founding RepPro to building a
Nick Gerhart — former Iowa Insurance Commissioner, insurtech investor, and now COO of Homesteaders Life — makes the case that smaller carriers can finally outmaneuver the big guys. He talks about building adjacencies aro
Cally Myhrum, founder of Lotus Fertility Insurance, shares how a personal experience led her to build the first fertility protection product embedded in life insurance. With IVF costing $60-70K and no individual coverage
Michelle Gordon, COO of Axonic Insurance, reveals how a startup grew to $2.1B in issued annuities in its first year — with its own cloud-built policy admin system and 125 employees. Plus, her passionate case for why the
Andrew Barnett, VP of Technology Innovation at FIG, shares how a stint in minor league baseball led him to one of the most forward-thinking tech teams in insurance distribution. He breaks down FIG's work at the IRI hacka
Moshe Golomb, CEO of Juice Financial, tackles the $10 trillion check problem still plaguing insurance. After 26 years digitizing payments across retail and banking, he's bringing Uber-like transparency to insurance disbu
Darren Rowe, CEO of Kadance, explains how his precision health management program is changing life insurance from a death benefit into a living benefit. Learn how genetic testing, cancer navigation, and pharmacogenomics
Joe Jordan
Author of Living a Life of Significance · North Carolina Professionals Health Program
1 appearance on this show
James Wong
Senior Vice President · Carousell
1 appearance on this show
Pat Kelly
Co-Founder and CEO · Kelly’s Westport Inn
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Michelle Gordon
board-certified obesity medicine physician · Thrive Span Medical
1 appearance on this show
Jeff Tulloch
MetLife
1 appearance on this show
Ryan Hinchey
AmeriLife
1 appearance on this show
Wei Chen
University of Connecticut School of Business
1 appearance on this show
Branislav Nikolic
The Index Standard
1 appearance on this show
Cally Myhrum
Lotus Fertility Insurance
1 appearance on this show
Michelle Gordon
Axonic Insurance
1 appearance on this show
Andrew Barnett
FIG
1 appearance on this show
Moshe Golomb
Juice Financial
1 appearance on this show
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