Business Department Events
Mars Wrigley Confectionery and Department of Business Partnership
Fall 2022 Lectures
October 21, 2022: Mark McNaughton '85 P'10
Location: Esbenshade Hall, Gibble Auditorium
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
November 11, 2022: James H. Steeley '00
Location: Esbenshade Hall, Gibble Auditorium
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
Recently recognized as one of the Commonwealth’s most influential education leaders, Jim Steeley is President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA). PHEAA is one of the nation’s leading providers of student financial aid services, while serving millions of students through guaranty, servicing, financial aid processing, and other programs and services. Jim joined PHEAA in 2015 as PHEAA’s Chief Financial Officer and was named Chief Operating Officer in 2018, before officially taking on the role of President and CEO in 2019. Prior to joining the agency, Jim established a successful career in finance serving as Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at Susquehanna Bancshares, Inc., Assistant Vice President of Finance at the Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union (PSECU) and a Senior Manager in Financial Services Practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Jim is also a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting at Elizabethtown College.
Spring 2022 Lectures
Location: Hoover Center for Business, Room 212
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
January 21, 2022: Brett Beckfield
Brett has spent his entire life in business and supply chain, primarily in the food industry. At the beginning of his career he focused on engineering, manufacturing, operations, and supply chain, then process design, system’s implication, and supply chain strategy. He has served in a number of executive roles as well as running his own consulting firm supporting private equity. Throughout his career he has focused on developing people and building teams. He has also focused on developing and implementing strategies, driving continuous improvement, innovation, productivity, and waste elimination to increase revenue, profitability, and overall organizational performance. Most recently he has been an adjunct educator (Penn State University Harrisburg). He has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, Iowa State University (Ames, IA 1986) and a Master of Business Administration, Western Illinois University (Macomb, IL 1990). He currently lives in Hershey/Hummelstown area with wife of over 30 years. They have two children who graduated from college/university in the past 1.5 years. In addition to the two children, he and his wife have a dog. He is an avid reader, primarily non-fiction on wide range of topics from business to history to science to biographies to politics. He also spends a great deal of time on one of his favorite hobbies, investing.
Recorded Lecture
February 11, 2022: Erick Blank
March 11, 2022: Fred Rahmanian
April 22, 2022: Bryn Davis
Fall 2021 Lectures
Location: Hoover Center for Business, Room 212
Time: 11:00am-12:00pm
September 17, 2021: Daniel Betancourt, President & Chief Executive Officer, Community First Fund and FINANTA, "Where Financing Meets Social Justice"
Recorded Lecture
September 24, 2021: Ryan Unger ’01, CEO, Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce
Recorded Lecture
CANCELED: October 15, 2021: Bryn Davis ’09, Owner, Bryn and Dane’s
November 12, 2021: Damien Weaver, Plant Director – Elizabethtown, Mars Wrigley
Recorded Lecture
Spring 2021 Lectures
February 12, 2021: Amita Mehta '95, "If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Lessons from 25 Years in Financial Services"
Recorded Zoom Lecture
February 26, 2021: Steve Leaman, Chief Communications Officer & President of the Restaurant Stores, "Clark Associates 2021"
Recorded Zoom Lecture
March 19, 2021: Elijah Murray, Co-Founder & CEO of Matter Product Studio, "Trials and Tribulations of Startup Life"
Recorded Zoom Lecture
April 16, 2021: Joseph P. Beck, Jr. '87, Senior Vice President - Business Services, Members 1st Federal Credit Union
Recorded Zoom Lecture
Fall 2020 LECTURES
September 18, 2020: Stephen McGonigle '10, Manager, A. T. Kearney,"How to start a career in management consulting" Recorded Lecture
October 9, 2020: Donté McCrary-McClain '13, Senior Manager, Global eCommerce Business Development - Newell Brands,"From IB to Intrapreneur"
October 30, 2020: Beverley Doody, CPC, ACC, ELI-MP, Principal, The SMART Coach LLC, “Leading in Tough Times” Recorded Lecture
November 20, 2020, 11am-12pm: Chip Cargas, Founder & former CEO, Cargas Systems, "Business as a Force for Good" Recorded Lecture
SPRING 2020 LECTURES Location: Hoover 212
January 24, 2020: Nicholas Boyer, RKL, "RKL Wealth Management"
February 7, 2020: Ethan Haase '94, Blue Origin, "Building a Career in Defense & Aerospace as a Non-Engineer (or How I Accidentally Ended Up Selling Rockets)"
February 21, 2020: Joe Besecker, Emerald Foundation
March 20, 2020: Chip Cargas, Cargas Systems, Inc. CANCELLED
April 3, 2020: James Hoover, Dauphin Capital Partners Inc. CANCELLED
FALL 2019 LECTURES :
September 6, 2019: Bappa Choudhury, Founder & CEO, Breathe, Balance & Believe
September 20, 2019: CANCELLED
October 18, 2019: Ross Kramer, CEO Listrak
November 1, 2019: Carl Freeman, Manufacturing Director, Mars Wrigley
November 15, 2019: Andrew Wallover, Managing Director, Northwestern Mutual - Lancaster
Contact the Department of Business for more information.
Mars Wrigley Confectionery has partnered with the Elizabethtown College Department of Business to create an Executive Lecture Series geared toward bringing in senior level executives from various industries to talk about their businesses and engage students in discussions about programs that are offered to customers. Students are exposed to an assortment of executives that specialize in certain disciplines. This program is another example of Elizabethtown College’s Department of Business commitment to experiential learning. This collaboration provides a strong foundation for our students to apply key core business principles learned in our learning community. The Mars Wrigley Confectionery partnership represents an example of how business and education can create bridges that accelerate the learning process for students. We want students to be able to interact with executives as well as demonstrate that they are capable of presenting views that represent the impact of how society benefits from firms, while at the same time government is placing constraints upon people and firms to create a level playing field in the market. Through the Mars Wrigley Confectionery Executive Lecture series, students obtain a real world perspective of business. This relationship will further enhance the transformative educational learning experience our students will receive while at Elizabethtown College.
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