Rodger Mort, Jonathan Lowenhar, Michael Ioffe | Office Hours #781

Rodger Mort Rodger Mort is the Chief Operating Officer and partner at Packaging And Crating Technologies (PACT), a global leader in sustainable corrugated packaging for commercial, industrial, and military use. With 40 years of experience, he rose from hourly employee to COO, specializing in cost-effective, patented solutions like LiftVans, PleatWrap, and custom packaging for industries from aerospace to fine art. Mort has also driven the development of safety innovations such as PACT Thermo Shield®, which suppresses lithium-ion battery fires, and PACT Lion-X, a liquid-to-foam solution that extinguishes extreme fires in seconds. Under his leadership, PACT has become a preferred vendor for the U.S. Department of Defense, earned a special shipping permit from the Department of Transportation, and established itself as a trusted voice in key industry organizations. Jonathan Lowenhar Jonathan Lowenhar is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive with nearly 30 years of experience leading businesses through growth, turnaround, and exit. He has managed a $1B division of a public company, revitalized a distressed $100M+ business, co-founded and sold a venture-backed startup, and helped scale a fintech startup to a near-$1B acquisition by SAP. In 2015, he founded Enjoy The Work, where as CEO he has guided nearly 200 startup leaders representing more than $13B in enterprise value. Drawing on his background in hospitality, fintech, analytics, and operations, Jonathan and his team provide hands-on mentorship to help founders become successful CEOs and scale their companies with clarity and confidence. Michael Ioffe Michael Ioffe is the CEO and founder of Arist, a $16M-backed platform transforming workforce education through AI-built, text-based micro-courses that now serve 3.9 million employees at organizations like HP, Pfizer, Ford, Amazon, and the State of California. Inspired as a teenager working with students in Yemen, Michael realized SMS could deliver learning where internet access was unreliable, sparking his mission to make education more accessible. A lifelong innovator, he founded 15, became Oregon’s youngest high school teacher at 17, and, after hundreds of investor rejections, launched Arist in 2019. Today, the company is scaling 3–4x annually, winning Fortune 500 clients, and proving the power of persistence, vision, and simple tools to unlock global access to education.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.