Mike Boeder

Executive Director, Health Plan Operations at Children's Community Health Plan (CCHP)

Matt Salo

Matt Salo was named Executive Director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD) in February 2011. The association represents all 56 of the nation’s state and territorial Medicaid Directors, and provides them with a strong unified voice in national discussions as well as a locus for technical assistance and best practices.

Matt formerly spent 12 years at the National Governors Association…

Ray Hanley

Ark Department of Human Services 1974-2003, Arkansas Medicaid Director 1986-2003, Chairman of National Association of State Medicaid Directors for five years. Client Industry Executive EDS/Hewlett Packard 2003-2010 doing sales support and consulting.....voted global Client Industry Executive of year 2007…

Leslie Lotano-Saba

Leslie is a VP for Aarete, a global consulting firm. She has more than 35 years of managed care pharmacy experience, primarily in government programs with payers and PBMs…

Meryl Price

Meryl F Price is the founder and President of Health Policy Matters, Inc (HM). HPM's mission is to transform healthcare systems for vulnerable populations. .…

Len Kirschner

Len has done so much in the healthcare space its impossible to do it justice in a simple bio. Highlights include being State President of AARP of Arizona, the former Medicaid Director for Arizona, and 22 years of active duty in the United States Air Force. He is also a physician and regular on the Medicaid conference circuit.

Kris Vilamaa

Chief Growth Officer, Mostly Medicaid

Kris has led major state system transformations including planning for Medicaid Transformation, development of new behavioral health treatment standards…

Vern Smith

Vern Smith is a nationally lauded expert in Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP, state budgets and trends in the health care marketplace. He has authored numerous reports on current issues in Medicaid and CHIP, state strategies for containing health care costs and improving quality, and state preparations for the health reform….