M Conference 2021

Hugh Halpern - U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director

Hugh Halpern is the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Director, the agency’s chief executive officer. Prior to coming to GPO, Halpern held a succession of leadership positions during his 30 years on Capitol Hill, most recently as Director of Floor Operations for the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. During his career, he’s served half a dozen different committees in both policy development and procedural roles. He served as Staff Director leading the management and terms of debate on the House floor and in 2001 was named General Counsel for the newly established House Committee on Financial Services. During his tenure, the committee provided legislation addressing terrorist financing and money laundering, improving investor confidence in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals and granting consumers tools to fight identity theft. During the 1990s, Halpern served on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, where he handled a variety of legislative issues, including automobile safety, insurance, FTC consumer protection and tobacco regulation. In 2018, he received the John W. McCormack Award of Excellence, the highest award given to a staff member in the House. The award recognizes a lifetime of bipartisan service to the House.

Yanek Korff - Co-Founder and COO, Expel

Yanek has served in information technology or security roles for over 20 years. Today he is a Co-Founder and the COO of Expel, a DC-area cybersecurity company. Yanek began his professional career as a systems administrator at Bell Atlantic and then Cigital. He moved on to Aol where he transitioned into a management role and eventually became responsible for much of Aol’s security infrastructure. In 2010, he joined Mandiant to build a new managed services business line to help customers mitigate the impact of security breaches conducted by state-sponsored attackers. Yanek graduated with a Computer Science degree from William and Mary, a Masters in the Management of Information Technology from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. Yanek was the principal author for Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security, published by O’Reilly Media.

Eldon Schaffer - Executive Vice President - Strategic Projects and Commercial Excellence, Aptar

Eldon’s 30 year career with Aptar has spanned four countries, a variety of functions and diverse target markets/customers. Eldon was first hired by Aptar as a marketing intern while completing his MBA in Marketing/Finance at Indiana University in 1988. After which time he moved up in a variety of marketing roles based in the US. In 1994, Eldon transferred to Europe and held a variety of pan European roles increasing in responsibility in Sales and Marketing living in the UK, and then Germany followed by France. After nine years in Europe including two acquisitions he and his family moved to the US when he was promoted to General Manager of Seaquist Closures North America. In 2009, he took on additional product lines and factories as President, Aptar Beauty + Home North America. In 2011, Eldon advanced to be President of Aptar’s Food + Beverage global business. Aptar’s fastest growing segment. Then in 2016, he was promoted to lead Aptar’s largest segment @ $1.3 billion in sales – Beauty + Home. He most recently has taken on the role of Executive Vice President of Strategic Priorities and Commercial Excellence for Aptar in December 2019.

Matthew Bintliff - Director, Field Training & Development - Novo Nordisk

In his role Matthew is responsible for changing organizational behavior and leading a training team. He has had a successful career in sales, sales management, and has a passion for building stronger, more effective sales teams. He has also developed and facilitated performance management curriculum for all managers within Novo Nordisk - building skills and educating leaders on successful practices for coaching high performing teams. Matthew, his wife Amber, and their son Shia live in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Their family has relocated several times but are staying put while Shia completes his senior year of high school. Their daughter, Shadai, lives in Seattle and is a fully functioning grown up.