You don’t should be a CEO, child, to be in our present. The executives are nice, however Arkansas Cash & Politics readers acknowledge that it takes everybody — small enterprise homeowners, entrepreneurs, nurses, actual property brokers and extra to make Arkansas work. We requested readers to assist us acknowledge a few of the professionals in Arkansas who stand out of their fields.

 

David Adams

President, HP Engineering Inc.

Jim Adams

President, GAR-BRO Manufacturing Co.

Jajuan Archer

Founder/President, Girls’s Personal Value (WOW)

Kent Arnold

Vice President, Signature Financial institution of

Arkansas

Government Dealer, Portfolio Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty

Kent Arnold is predicated out of Northwest Arkansas and works at Signature Financial institution of Arkansas as vice chairman. He additionally has over 18 years of expertise as a licensed actual property dealer with a CCIM Designation (Licensed Business Funding Member). Utilizing the data he discovered over his profession alongside together with his CCIM coaching, he launched Kent Consulting LLC, which focuses on serving to people who want actual property recommendation, each business and residential. Arnold’s specialty isn’t in a single kind of actual property, however making relationships with shoppers that go far past one transaction. He has closed over 500 actual property transactions, together with multi-family tasks, procuring facilities, eating places and resorts, together with leasing over 500,000-SF of retail area.

Jordon Babcock

CEO, Springwoods Behavioral Well being

Jordon Babcock is the chief government officer of Springwoods Behavioral Well being in Fayetteville. He has a broad enterprise and medical background, together with creating an IT consulting firm, holding an actual property license, working as direct care employees and government management within the behavioral healthcare setting. Babcock joined Springwoods in October 2018 and served in varied government positions at Common Well being Providers earlier than that. He earned his bachelor’s diploma in psychology with a minor in human growth from Rockford College in Illinois, and an Government Grasp of Enterprise Administration from Northern Illinois College.

Rochelle Bartholomew

President/CEO, Calark Inc.

Chris Bates

CEO, The Laptop Hut LLC

David Bazzel

Entrepreneur/Radio Host, 103.7 The Buzz

One of the influential names in Arkansas, former Razorback linebacker David Bazzel wears many hats. He created the Broyles Award and the Landing Membership, which brings to Little Rock huge names from everywhere in the nation, 12 months after 12 months. Bazzel can also be answerable for the “Battle for the Boot,” and the Tusk Fund. He can often be discovered on TV throughout Razorback soccer season as a pre-game host and commentator or behind the mic at his full-time job at Central Arkansas’ 103.7 KABZ-FM.

Chris Beaty

CEO, Telecomp

Bobby Bentley

Normal Supervisor, Gregg Orr Toyota

Bobby Bentley has served as the final supervisor for Greg Orr Toyota in Sizzling Springs for over ten years. Based on Bentley, the dealership’s present purpose is to boost the requirements within the enterprise’s space and to take care of the very best attainable stage of service to its prospects. “Those that select us as a seller will see the distinction in a enterprise who cares and stops at nothing to satisfy and endorse the very best stage of customer support one can.”

Brandi Bettis

Account Government, ABI Insurance coverage

Brandi Bettis is an account government at ABI Insurance coverage (ABI) in Sizzling Springs. She is a licensed insurance coverage agent with 15 years expertise within the insurance coverage trade. Arkansas ABI is likely one of the largest and oldest locally-owned unbiased insurance coverage businesses within the state, serving Sizzling Springs and surrounding areas for greater than 100 years.

Charles Blake

Vice Principal, Assume Rubix

Amanda Bledsoe, DC

CEO, Bledsoe Chiropractic

When Amanda Bledsoe was 14, she was identified with main scoliosis of the backbone. On the time, it was really helpful that she go to a chiropractor, however Bledsoe didn’t find yourself seeing one till she was 18. After experiencing firsthand how highly effective chiropractic care was, coupled with the truth that she at all times wished to work in well being care, chiropractic turned the right profession path for her. “I missed out on essential years of chiropractic care between 14 and 18 years outdated; I wish to assist others who have been afraid like I used to be, to expertise simply how wonderful chiropractic care may be.” Bledsoe attended the Cleveland Chiropractic School in Kansas Metropolis. One among her final targets for sufferers is to make chiropractic care not simply efficient for all, however reasonably priced. When she isn’t serving to sufferers of all ages lead happier, more healthy lives, she enjoys spending time along with her two kids, Audrey and Hunter. She enjoys all that Conway has to supply and is an energetic a part of her neighborhood, together with being part of a neighborhood enterprise networking group and a member of United Means. She additionally finds methods to help many native organizations like Bethlehem Home and Ship Hope. Bledsoe’s household not too long ago moved their dwelling to Little Rock to be nearer to their Nice Valley church household, and they’re happy with the clinic’s current growth into Maumelle.

Paul Bradley

Director of Analytics, Butler/Until

Paul Bradley is the director of Analytics for Butler/Until promoting providers. Previous to becoming a member of Butler/Until, Bradley served because the director of selling and communications for Conway Regional Well being System. He was named the 2020 Younger Enterprise Chief of the 12 months by the Conway Space Chamber of Commerce. Earlier than Conway Regional, Bradley was the Conway market chief for Edafio Know-how Companions, a number one Arkansas IT administration supplier and expertise consulting agency.

Daniel Bryant

Proprietor, H.A.M./Hill Station/Massive Whiskey’s/Gus’s World Well-known Fried Rooster/Complete Hog NLR/The Fountain

Brittany Butler

Agent, McGhee Insurance coverage Company – Conway

Keith Caldarera

Normal Supervisor, McLarty Automotive Group

Daniel Cate

Pharmacist/Proprietor, Market Place Pharmacy

Jason Chacko, CFP®, CRPS®

Monetary Advisor, The Chacko Group|Morgan Stanley Wealth Administration

Williams Childs

Director of Lending Operations, Simmons Financial institution

William Childs’ street to director of lending operations, and banking on the whole, is exclusive. He began his profession as a course of engineer in manufacturing, the place he discovered lean six sigma and easy methods to work with line leaders and supervisors to enhance processes. In 2017, he joined Simmons Financial institution as a efficiency enchancment specialist to assist IT enhance processes as new expertise was applied. Childs quickly moved from IT into mortgage operations and after a 12 months of engaged on tasks to streamline mortgage funding and information assortment, was tapped to be director of mortgage administration in 2018. In 2019, Childs was promoted to director of lending operations which encompasses Simmons’ business mortgage origination and mortgage servicing departments.

Becky Cranford

Proprietor, The Bug Man Inc.

Chuck Crawford

Grasp Electrician, It’s Electrical LLC

Adora Curry

Director of Development, Thaden Faculty

Dennis “DJ” Curtis Jr., CLU®, CRPC™

The Curtis Crew – Stifel

DJ Curtis is senior vice chairman/investments and department supervisor with Stifel, and co-founder of The Curtis Crew. He started his funding profession in 2006 and joined Stifel in 2011. In his function, Curtis supplies complete, consultative funding planning, threat administration methods and wealth administration providers to prosperous households and establishments. He assists personal enterprise homeowners with in-depth pre-transaction planning and key selections relating to multi-generational wealth, and takes an energetic function in facilitating household conferences and discussions round household governance, and the schooling and preparation of the subsequent era as future stewards of their household’s wealth. Curtis was named to Forbes’ 2022 Finest-in-State Wealth Advisors record and to Forbes’ 2022 Prime Subsequent-Gen Wealth Advisors record. He’s additionally a member of the distinguished Stifel Chairman’s Council. He earned a B.S.B.A. from the College of Arkansas in Fayetteville.  Curtis resides in Little Rock, has a ardour to serve the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Analysis Basis) and volunteers his time to the Boys and Ladies Membership of America.

Neelakanta Dadi, MD

Hematologist/Oncologist, Conway Regional

Dr. Neelakanta Dadi is a extremely skilled hematologist-oncologist with the Conway Regional Multispecialty Clinic. Dadi acquired his Inner Drugs residency coaching on the College of Utah and accomplished his Hematology/Oncology fellowship on the Fiest Weiller Most cancers Heart at Louisiana State College.

Evans Dietz

Proprietor, D&D Solar Management

Evans Dietz is the proprietor of D&D Solar Management in North Little Rock. He graduated from Catholic Excessive Faculty in 1984 with a tennis scholarship to Centenary School of Louisiana, the place he acquired his bachelor’s diploma in enterprise finance. Dietz has little doubt about what units his enterprise aside from different contractors: “My individuals. Interval.” He says that each worker at D&D Solar Management has a get-the-job-done mentality, and that features taking satisfaction within the course of as a lot as within the closing product. “We is not going to be outworked,” Dietz stated. “We are going to remedy any drawback and we can have enjoyable doing it.”

Jim Engelhorn

Retailer Supervisor/Board of Administrators, Sissy’s Log Cabin

Jim Engelhorn was born and raised in Bloomington, Illinois, the place he began within the jewellery enterprise at age 15. He’s a graduate of the College of Illinois. After a prolonged profession in administration and consulting, Engelhorn moved to Little Rock in 2017. He was normal supervisor of one other native jeweler earlier than going to work for Sissy’s Log Cabin and has been serving to the corporate take pleasure in file development the final a number of years. Engelhorn has 37 years of expertise within the jewellery enterprise in gross sales and gross sales administration. He’s a Diamonds Graduate and a number of certificates holder from The Gemological Institute of America.

Benjamin English

Co-Proprietor & Co-Founder, OZK Insurance coverage

Sizzling Springs native Benjamin English now lives in Bentonville and is a proud alumnus of the College of Arkansas, the place he acquired two levels in enterprise administration and finance. He and one other accomplice based OZK insurance coverage in 2018, and the 2 have been in a position to construct a extremely profitable group in just some brief years. In 2021, OZK was ranked sixteenth within the nation out of 45,000 insurance coverage businesses for development by Progressive insurance coverage. English is passionate relating to being a small enterprise proprietor and enjoys philanthropic efforts with OZK Outreach, a ardour challenge geared towards the wants of the area people.

Biffy Fletcher

Vice President – Meals, Blue Ocean Progressive Options

Beverly Foster, DC

Proprietor, Chiropractic Well being & Rehabilitation

John Freyaldenhoven

Proprietor/Operator, Freyaldenhoven Heating and Cooling

Don Gooch

Regional Director of Group Financial institution Presidents, Arvest Financial institution

Don Gooch of Sizzling Springs serves because the regional director of neighborhood financial institution presidents for Arvest Financial institution. Now in his twentieth 12 months with Arvest, Gooch was previously southwest Arkansas neighborhood financial institution president. In his present place, he serves as a useful resource and chief for neighborhood financial institution presidents in Arvest’s 4 neighborhood banks situated in Conway, northeast Arkansas, Saline county and southwest Arkansas.

Dusty Graham, AIA

Associate, Core Architects

Benjamin Gregory, AIA

Challenge Architect, WER Architects/Planners

Aaron Grimes

Co-owner/Supervisor, Capitol Glass Firm

Pharmacist, CHI St. Vincent Infirmary

Market/Social Media Director, Shiloh Marina on Greers Ferry Lake

Aaron Grimes spent his highschool summers working on the household enterprise, Capitol Glass Firm. However whereas attending school on the College of Central Arkansas, he targeted his time on wakeboarding and different watersports. He competed in wakeboard competitions all through many of the 2000s and was sponsored by Hyperlite Wakeboards. As soon as he graduated from UCA, Grimes helped his father become involved within the boating trade to open S&G Excessive Marine, and he opened his personal skate store with areas in Little Rock and Kansas Metropolis. The recession of 2008 resulted within the closing of each skate retailers and Grimes returned to the household enterprise. Within the years that adopted, Grimes attended pharmacy college at UAMS, labored full time at CHI St. Vincent as a pharmacist and now balances his time between Capitol Glass Firm, the hospital and serving to his father when he can.

Laura J. Hanlon

Licensed Public Accountant, Laura J. Hanlon CPA PLLC

Erik Hardin, LAc

Acupuncturist, Ozark Integrative Drugs

Billy Hartnedy

Vice President/Nationwide Gross sales/Auctioneer, Blackmon Auctions Inc.

Billy Hartnedy began with Blackmon Auctions again in 1991. He’s sometimes the one advertising and marketing the auctions and may be discovered at virtually each public sale as properly. His specialties are the development/oilfield and transportation industries. Hartnedy believes that “this enterprise is about individuals.”

RJ Hawk

Candidate for Arkansas State Consultant

Realtor, Clark & Co. Realty

Radio Host/103.7 The Buzz

Bryant Metropolis Councilman RJ Hawk is operating for election to the Arkansas Home of Representatives to symbolize District 81. Initially from Athens, Texas, R.J. Hawk has referred to as Arkansas dwelling for the final 18 years. He is likely one of the Prime 30 Realtors within the South Central Arkansas Realtors Affiliation and has helped households throughout Central Arkansas with the shopping for and promoting of their houses. For the previous 14 years, Hawk could possibly be heard on 103.7 KABZ-FM The Buzz weekday mornings from 6-10 a.m. with David Bazzel, Roger Scott and, most not too long ago, Justin Moore.

Tyler Henderson

Regional Gross sales Director, American Concrete Ideas Inc.

Tyler Henderson started his profession with ACCI in 2018. Previous to the polished concrete and coating trade, Henderson owned and operated his personal farming operation in England, Arkansas. His tasks have various from huge identify retail, industrial manufacturing and meals crops to multimillion greenback achievement facilities everywhere in the nation. Henderson’s expertise contains polished concrete and coating set up, challenge administration, estimating and contract negotiation.

Bryan Howe

Co-founder/Supervisor, Altimize

Daybreak Hughes, MD

Maternal-Fetal Drugs Doctor

By way of medication, Dr. Daybreak Hughes is ready to mix her passions for science and repair. No two moms and infants are the identical, particularly relating to high-risk pregnancies, so Hughes creates particular person care plans for her sufferers. She guides mother and father and parents-to-be by a few of the scariest instances of their lives, and he or she cherishes these relationships. Hughes describes her circle of associates as “wild and eclectic,” and her spare time is spent studying, touring, cooking and spending time along with her two kids.

LaDonna Humphrey

Government Director, Oasis of Northwest Arkansas

LaDonna Humphrey is the manager director of Oasis of Northwest Arkansas, an 18-month transitional residing program for girls in restoration and their kids. Oasis is a 501(c)(3) non revenue group that gives meals, clothes, shelter, instructional and employment alternatives, whereas strolling alongside ladies who’re able to reconstruct their lives. Humphrey can also be an creator and advocate for lacking individuals. Notable works embody “The Woman I By no means Knew: The Melissa Witt Story.”

Misty Hunt

Chief of Employees, Workplace of the First Woman

With over 20 years of expertise in authorities service and fundraising, Misty Hunt at the moment serves because the Chief of Employees to First Woman of Arkansas, Susan Hutchinson. In her function, Misty is tasked with implementing the First Woman’s agenda for her initiative and particular tasks, answerable for communications and coverage analysis and managing her schedule. Hunt started her profession in public service in 1997 the place she labored for U.S. Senator Tim Hutchinson in Washington, D.C. She then labored for the USTelecom: The Broadband Affiliation within the Authorities Affairs Division, aiding with coverage and fundraising for the USTA PAC. In 2006, Hunt returned to her hometown of Fort Smith and continued her profession in authorities service and nonprofit fundraising. In 2015, she joined Governor Asa Hutchinson’s Administration. Most not too long ago, she is proudest to be working with the First Woman to launch a nationwide social media marketing campaign “Shine Hope” elevating public consciousness for all baby abuse victims and survivors throughout the USA.

Janet Jones

Founder, The Janet Jones Firm

Stephanie Jones

Affiliate Service provider – Magnificence, Walmart

Bram Keahey

Principal Architect, Taggart Architects

Robert Klein

Co-founder/Realtor, The Property Group

Andrew King

Licensed Payroll Skilled, Full Payroll Providers

Greg Kirtman

VP of Operations, Datamax Arkansas

Scott Knox

Co-owner, ATVWorks

Paul Kroger, Jr.

Monetary Advisor, Northwestern Mutual

Stephen LaFrance, Jr.

Vice Chairman, Good Day Farm

An Arkansas native, born and raised in Pine Bluff, Stephen LaFrance discovered from a younger age the facility of persistence and onerous work from his father. His father, born in New Orleans and grew up in humble beginnings in Monroe, Louisiana, was in a position by perseverance to start out the profitable USA Drug Pharmacy chain. LaFrance says being raised by and dealing alongside his father taught him a lot, and he’s in a position to honor him by the enterprise practices at Good Day Farm, a medical hashish dispensary. When he’s not working, LaFrance enjoys {golfing}, touring or attempting out new and distinctive eating places. He says he’s blessed to share these passions with associates, his wonderful spouse and his gifted daughter.

Tameka Lee

Director of Communications, Central Arkansas Library System (CALS)

Brittany Marsh, PharmD

Pharmacist, Cornerstone Pharmacy

Jamie McAfee

Membership Supervisor, Pine Bluff Nation Membership

Daniel McElderry

President/CEO, Mac Mechanical Co.

Alex McIntosh

Principal, MAC Valuation Group

Staci Medlock

Realtor, RE/MAX Elite

Staci Medlock is persistently one of many top-performing actual property brokers within the Central Arkansas space, carrying greater than 15 years of expertise below her belt. A local of the realm, she caters to a variety of shoppers throughout the area, together with Little Rock, North Little Rock, Sherwood, Maumelle, Jacksonville, Cabot, Searcy and Beebe. Whereas Medlock’s talents as a Realtor are across-the-board, she has in depth expertise in new development, customized dwelling constructing and dealing with first-time homebuyers.

Cindy Minor

Proprietor, Small World Massive Enjoyable

Cindy Minor is the proprietor of Small World Massive Enjoyable, a journey company creating custom-made holidays for households, and an Licensed Disney Trip Planner, specializing in custom-made Disney holidays. Minor established Small World Massive Enjoyable with a singular objective – creating fabulous household experiences. Meaning a private journey itinerary that matches your loved ones. She’s described as a modern-day Mouseketeer, serving as a Disney ambassador for households that wish to take the stress out of planning a Disney trip. She deliberate journeys for household and associates for years previous to turning into an unbiased contractor for an additional journey company. After greater than a decade of trip planning expertise, she took a leap of religion and began Small World Massive Enjoyable in Little Rock. Her finest journey recommendation is to have a plan, however depart room for the magic that occurs in surprising instances and locations.

Justin Moore

Nation Music Artist

Radio Host, 103.7 The Buzz

Nation music singer/songwriter Justin Moore joined Little Rock radio station 103.7 KABZ-FM The Buzz morning present following the retirement of long-time radio character, Tommy Smith, in 2021. The nation music singer is initially from Poyen, a small city situated southwest of Little Rock, in Grant County. Moore is a global, multi-platinum recording artist who not too long ago opened for George Strait on the Simmons Financial institution Enviornment.

Ryan Myers

Chief Working Officer, Myers Provide Inc.

Lauren Norris

Director of Advertising, Conway Regional Well being System

Lauren Norris at the moment serves because the director of selling for Conway Regional Well being System, the place she has labored since 2019. She initially joined Conway Regional as a artistic specialist and labored as a contract graphic designer for Perception out of Tempe, Arizona, earlier than that. Norris graduated from Arkansas Tech College in Russellville with a bachelor’s diploma in graphic design and a minor in enterprise, and earned her Grasp of Enterprise Administration diploma from the College of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Doug Odom

President/CEO, Skilled Laptop Providers Inc. (PCSI)

Feather Parrish

Operations Coordinator, Elder Independence Residence Care

Hoyt Plunkett

President, Jackpot Interactive LLC

Mimi San Pedro

Chief Technique Officer, The Enterprise Heart

Meredith Poland

Government Officer, HBA of Larger Little Rock

April Pollard, CFP®, CPRCTM

Monetary Advisor, Edward Jones

Chris Puckett

Proprietor, Puckett Auto Group LLC

Chris Puckett, proprietor of Puckett Auto Group, was born and raised in North Little Rock. After graduating highschool, Puckett determined to serve his nation and be a part of the Air Drive. Seventeen years and 14 excursions abroad later, he retired to spend extra time together with his household. After being a finance supervisor at a couple of dealerships, Puckett knew it was meant for him to open his personal dealership. Puckett Auto Group in Greenbrier is really a family-operated enterprise. They consider customer support and a high quality product is vital to having a profitable enterprise.

Zac Qualls

Property Supervisor, Haag Brown Business Actual Property

Carrie Russom Quraishi, JD, CAPP

Principal, Quraishi Regulation Agency & Wealth Administration

James Fast

President, SimpliFi Managed Providers

Matthew T. Reynolds, PA-C

Doctor Assistant, Arkansas Dermatology

Heather Baber-Roe

Co-owner, Baja Grill and Valhalla Kitchen + Bar

Heather Baber-Roe grew up in Caddo Hole, the place her grandparents and oldsters each owned eating places. At 21, she moved to Little Rock and labored for varied Jerry Barakat institutions over the subsequent 11 years, together with serving to launch Arthur’s Prime Steakhouse. After that lengthy stretch, Baber-Roe transitioned into retail, proudly owning a boutique clothes store and having fun with life outdoors the meals trade. Then she met Craig Roe, proprietor of Baja Grill, a preferred restaurant specializing in California-style tacos and burritos. The restaurant originated in Benton as a meals truck and moved right into a brick-and-mortar with a chief location in Little Rock’s Heights neighborhood in 2014. Baber-Roe got here on board with the restaurant in 2016. Baja Grill now has a second location, returning to its Benton roots with new downtown digs, in a restored constructing with the restaurateurs’ different standard eatery, Valhalla Restaurant & Axe Throwing.

Rob Roedel

Director of Communications, Arkansas Electrical Cooperative Company

Reese Rowland, FAIA

Principal Architect, Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects

Brett Russell

Seller, Russell Chevrolet

Brett Russell runs the present at Russell Chevrolet in Sherwood – one of many 200 largest Chevy sellers in the USA. He took over from his father, Bob Russell, who carried on the household enterprise from his dad, John Russell, who had launched the dealership in 1963. After John’s retirement, Bob took over the Chevrolet dealership, and his brother, Rick, assumed management of the Honda dealership. The third era of Russells runs the household dealerships in the present day.

Dan Sawyer

Senior Director of Accounts & New Enterprise, GWL Promoting Inc.

Dan Sawyer is the senior director of Accounts & Enterprise Growth for GWL Promoting. With greater than 25 years within the promoting and advertising and marketing world, Sawyer introduced his wealth of expertise and strategic considering to GWL in mid-2020, and has helped so as to add trade range to the agency’s shopper base and appeal to corporations with nationwide footprints. Sawyer, a graduate of the College of Notre Dame, performed skilled hockey and labored for the New Jersey Devils NHL franchise earlier than coming to Arkansas to flourish on the planet of leisure and pageant advertising and marketing, and finally making his mark within the promoting trade. He’s additionally the president of ProFusion Advertising, a consulting agency that focuses on company sponsorships.

DuShun L. Scarbrough, Sr.

Government Director, Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Fee

DuShun Scarbrough has a constructive angle and is a group participant. He likes empowering communities with completely different concepts. He grew up in a gang-ridden space of Little Rock, however says he was in a position to overcome by not turning into a statistic however turning into a productive product of his atmosphere. The Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Fee serves all individuals, Scarbrough emphasizes, as a result of Dr. King was for all and invited all to be part of his work no matter race, creed, shade or faith. He earned a Grasp of Counselor Training diploma from Florida A&M College; a Grasp of Enterprise Administration from Webster College in Orlando; a Juris Doctorate Regulation from Western Michigan College Faculty of Regulation and his undergraduate bachelor’s diploma in psychology from Philander Smith School in Little Rock.

Roger Scott

Radio Host, 103.7 The Buzz

Sizzling Springs native Roger Scott is finest often known as one of many morning radio hosts on 103.7 KABZ-FM The Buzz out of Little Rock. Scott graduated from Sizzling Springs Excessive Faculty in 1982. Along with being a neighborhood media character, Scott commonly lends his skills to help good causes equivalent to Carelink’s annual Cupcakes for Goodness Sake occasion, benefiting the Central Arkansas Space Company on Ageing and the Arkansas Urology Basis.

Bryan Shaw

CEO/Principal, Cushman & Wakefield|Sage Companions

Gene Sloan, MD, FACS

Plastic Surgeon, Aesthetic Plastic Surgical procedure

Dr. Gene Sloan is a board-certified plastic surgeon, at the moment specializing in beauty surgical procedure in Little Rock. After finding out on the College of Central Arkansas in Conway, Sloan attended the College of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He additionally studied or labored at varied colleges and areas throughout the globe – from the College of Missouri at Columbia, to Nottingham, England and Miami, Florida. Sloan started personal follow in Little Rock in 1993, with a small shared workplace on the St. Vincent Infirmary campus and two part-time staff. Through the years his follow grew, and in 1998, he opened his current Aesthetic Plastic Surgical procedure workplace within the Pavilion Centre on Cantrell Highway in Little Rock, with the purpose of making a state-of-the-art facility devoted completely to offering the best in beauty surgical procedure providers.

Jeff Smith

President, Smith Household Cares/Smith Household Funeral Properties

Jeremy Sparks

Senior Supervisor, Tyson Meals

Main, Air Nationwide Guard

Wendy Sparks

Director of Advertising and Finance at Reynolds Efficiency Corridor, College of Central Arkansas

Wendy Sparks has labored within the advertising and marketing, public relations and performing arts trade for over 25 years. A local of east Texas, Sparks relocated to Arkansas 13 years in the past and was the director for The Heart for the Arts in Russellville earlier than transferring to Reynolds Efficiency Corridor in 2018. In her present function, she is answerable for advertising and marketing all Reynolds Efficiency Corridor season exhibits, in addition to managing all monetary necessities for occasions and the ability. Reynolds Efficiency Corridor is a part of the Public Appearances Division – a division of the UCA School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Since beginning within the arts trade in 1993, Sparks’ purpose has been to share her enthusiasm and appreciation for the humanities in her neighborhood – particularly with kids. By way of her efforts to convey top-name leisure and academic alternatives to the neighborhood and college kids from across the state, she has been in a position to unfold the enjoyment and advantages of the humanities to 1000’s of theatergoers all through her profession.

Patrick Swope

President/CEO, Legacy Nationwide Financial institution

Maurice Taylor

Principal Teacher/Proprietor/Dealer, Vivid Actual Property

Dalaney Thomas

Senior Account Government, CJRW

Bruce Trimble

Director of Enterprise Growth, The BridgeWay

Ford Trotter

President, Trotter Auto Group

Ford Trotter is the President of Trotter Auto Group in Pine Bluff. His father and grandfather have been additionally profitable businessmen, and though they’d very completely different administration types, he says he discovered lots from them each. Earlier than becoming a member of the household enterprise, Trotter was within the pre-law program at Westminster School and wished to be a lawyer. In his sophomore 12 months, he learn an article about what number of regulation college students have been graduating with their regulation diploma and never discovering a job as a result of there have been too many attorneys. So Trotter modified his main to enterprise and determined to enter the household enterprise.

Matt Troup, FACHE

President/CEO, Conway Regional Well being System

Matt Troup has greater than 20 years of government management expertise within the well being care trade, serving in varied administrative roles in hospitals in Texas, Oklahoma and Florida. Troup moved to Arkansas in 2014 as vice chairman of ancillary and help providers at CHI St. Vincent, and was named President and CEO of Conway Regional Well being System inside one 12 months. He says that Jesus Christ is his inspiration and that the mixing of his work and religion is key. His spouse, Melissa, can also be a key supply of inspiration and help.

Sarah True

President/CEO, Cabot Chamber of Commerce

Kirk Vansandt

Chief Lending Officer/Market President DeWitt, Farmers & Retailers Financial institution

Kirk Vansandt is a longtime worker of Farmers & Retailers Financial institution. He at the moment serves because the chief agriculture lending officer for the group, in addition to the Market President within the DeWitt space. Previous to being named CLO in 2019, Vansandt labored because the senior vice chairman, jap market president and mortgage officer. A local of Dewitt, Vansandt graduated from the College of Central Arkansas in 1992 with a bachelor’s diploma in enterprise administration. Vansandt and his spouse, Holly, reside in St. Charles. He’s energetic in the area people as a member of the DeWitt Rotary Membership and a board member for Acres of Assist Inc.

Phil Watson

Director of Engineering Design, Bernhard

Keith Weeks

Vice President, Gary Houston Electrical Co.

Gregory Whorton, MD

CHI St. Vincent – Sizzling Springs

Jeff Wisener, DDS

Dentist, Wisener Cooper and Fergus

Mandy Wolff

Chief Administrative Officer, Arkansas Myriad

Doris Jones Wright

Metropolis Director, Ward 6

Metropolis of Little Rock

Doris Jones Wright is the Metropolis Director for Ward 6 in Little Rock. A local of Lake Village, Wright acquired a Bachelor of Science diploma in psychology and sociology from the College of Arkansas at Monticello in 1981. She has additionally acquired a Licensed Public Supervisor designation from UA Little Rock. Wright was first elected to the Little Rock Board of Administrators in November 2006. She was reelected in November 2010, 2014 and 2018. Wright served as the primary feminine African American vice-mayor of the Metropolis of Little Rock from 2012-2014. She is a previous president of the John Barrow Neighborhood Affiliation. A longtime advocate for the John Barrow space, she has been concerned within the Parkview Arts & Science Magnet Excessive Faculty Mother or father Trainer Pupil Affiliation.