Podcasts

Joel is Senior Director, P&C Demand for MediaAlpha, the leading customer acquisition platform in the insurance industry. In this role, Joel leads the client-facing team that works with P&C advertisers to profitably acquire customers at scale, ensuring campaigns are highly efficient and meet client objectives.

Prior to joining MediaAlpha, Joel spent six years with Liberty Mutual, most recently as Senior Director, Marketing. Joel holds an MBA and an MS in Information Systems from Boston University.

The drop in claims is consistent with a strong labor market recovering from the omicron variant, which forced some businesses to close.

Amidst increasing uncertainty driven by the pandemic, employers need to find new ways to build trust with employees around their benefits.

Hybrid employees are almost twice as likely to feel energized by their work than their full-time counterparts.

John Mackowiak is chief business development officer at Advyzon, a cloud-based platform that combines portfolio management, customizable performance reporting, trading and rebalancing, client web portals, client relationship management (CRM), client billing, and document storage.

John leads the sales and service effort and contributes to development of the Advyzon platform. Prior to working at Advyzon, he spent 12 years at Morningstar, most recently as product manager for Morningstar Office.

Ben Siewert joined International Planning Alliance in November 2019 after a 12-year career as an audit and accounting professional with KPMG, The Siegfried Group and JP Morgan Chase. He holds his CPA as well as his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Penn State University.

Siewert focuses his practice on working with families, as well as fellow mid-career professionals.  He enjoys explaining financial concepts and decisions to his clients using the athletic principles he has learned over the course of 30 years as an amateur athlete.  Every athlete works with a coach to enhance their strengths and improve their weaknesses — finances deserve the same care.

At the same time, the company is now allowing employees to verify their results independently rather than providing proof.

Nancy Wang, founder and CEO of Advancing Women in Tech, discusses the struggle for career advancement and how, if done correctly, mentorship and sponsorship can help.

Greg Zolkos is president and CEO of Atlas Professional Services, a Tampa, Florida-based IT support services provider. Reach him at gzolkos@atlasps.com and (813) 999-4499.