Most MGAs sell policies. The great ones sell outcomes. In this episode of The Age of the MGA Podcast, Charlie Hanbury, Founder & CEO of Samphire Risk, reveals how he built one of the most innovative crisis-response MGAs in the market—by focusing on what truly matters when everything goes wrong: speed, expertise, and trust. From Somali piracy to active-assailant incidents, Charlie and the Samphire team have turned chaos into a repeatable system of clarity—proving that in specialty insura...
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Most MGAs sell policies. The great ones sell outcomes. In this episode of The Age of the MGA Podcast, Charlie Hanbury, Founder & CEO of Samphire Risk, reveals how he built one of the most innovative crisis-response MGAs in the market—by focusing on what truly matters when everything goes wrong: speed, expertise, and trust. From Somali piracy to active-assailant incidents, Charlie and the Samphire team have turned chaos into a repeatable system of clarity—proving that in specialty insura...
Ep. 7 | Why Thore Was Built As a Reciprocal Exchange MGA — And What Most Founders Still Get Wrong - feat. Johnathan Yazdani, Thore Underwriters
Age of the MGA Podcast
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Ep. 7 | Why Thore Was Built As a Reciprocal Exchange MGA — And What Most Founders Still Get Wrong - feat. Johnathan Yazdani, Thore Underwriters
What if writing a billion dollars in premium was actually the easy part? In this episode of The Age of the MGA Podcast, we sit down with Johnathan Yazdani, CEO and co-founder of Thore Underwriters — a reciprocal exchange + MGA hybrid designed from the ground up to remove bias in claims, plug tech into execution, and rethink how underserved markets are insured. What started as a solo leap (with no backing from his former family carrier) turned into a full-blown modern MGA model — powered by ...
Age of the MGA Podcast
Most MGAs sell policies. The great ones sell outcomes. In this episode of The Age of the MGA Podcast, Charlie Hanbury, Founder & CEO of Samphire Risk, reveals how he built one of the most innovative crisis-response MGAs in the market—by focusing on what truly matters when everything goes wrong: speed, expertise, and trust. From Somali piracy to active-assailant incidents, Charlie and the Samphire team have turned chaos into a repeatable system of clarity—proving that in specialty insura...
