Age of the MGA Podcast

About Age of the MGA Podcast

The Age of the MGA Podcast is the definitive playbook to learn how to build, operate, scale and invest in MGAs—told by the entrepreneurs, operators, and capital partners driving the industry forward. Each episode brings together the most elite founders, investors, and experts to give you a behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to build and grow a high-performing MGA—from your first dollar of premium to operational scale.

Publisher

Peter Tilbrook

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Apr 2025

Latest episode

25 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

37 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Aug 2026

   S2E17 | How MGAs Turn the Right Conversation Into Funding and Customers feat. Patti Harman

   Patti Harman is Head of Content at ITC Vegas (InsureTech Connect), where she helps shape the topics, speakers, and conversations brought to the insurance industry. In this episode of Age of the MGA, Patti joins Doug Ver Mulm, Dylan Brand, and Peter Tilbrook to look at something MGA founders can easily underestimate: what can happen when the right people in insurance actually get in the same room. For an MGA, relationships are not separate from building the business. They can connect founde...

2. 

   16 Jun 2026

   S2E16 | Why Distribution Breaks Before MGA Products Scale feat. TJ Olonilua, Accelerant

   A good insurance product does not automatically become a good business. That is one of the hardest lessons in the MGA world, especially when you are building in a new category, with a new buyer, a new problem, and a market that still needs to be educated. In this episode of The Age of the MGA Podcast, we sit down with TJ Olonilua from Accelerant for a practical conversation about distribution, platform leverage, vendor ecosystems, and what actually helps MGAs scale with more support around ...

3. 

   9 Jun 2026

   S2E15 | Why Delegated Authority Is Becoming Managed Authority feat. Sam Reeder

   Sam Reeder, CEO of Hadron Insurance, joins Age of the MGA live from Scout InsurTech Conference to talk about how modern program business is being built from the carrier side. This conversation surfaces a major operating shift: delegated authority is becoming more actively managed, more data-visible, and more tied to carrier balance sheet discipline than many MGA founders realize. This is not a general conversation about fronting or insurance startups. Sam explains why “trust but verify” is b...

Who has been a guest on Age of the MGA Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Megan Bingham-Walker
• John Songin
• Charlie Hanbury
• Amit Verma
• Bobby Touran

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

572

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

41

Social presence

0

YouTube

66

Engagement

32

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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