Final Week For 2016 Fast 15 Nominations

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Do you know a twenty-something on the fast track to success?

If so, you have just a few days left to nominate them for the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal’s 2016 Fast 15 class, to be featured in the May 9 issue.

The nomination deadline is 5 p.m. on Friday, March 25.

The Fast 15 program is designed to recognize a small, exclusive group of 20-something professionals on the fast track to success. To be considered, nominees must:

• Not turn 30 before May 9, 2016.

• Have made a significant impact on their companies and/or communities.

• Show the potential to be a leader in business or politics in the near future.

• Not have previously been a Forty Under 40 honoree.

• Be a resident of the Business Journal’s coverage area — Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Madison, Sebastian and Washington counties — through May 9, 2016.

Nominations can be made via nomination forms included as part of the Business Journal’s print edition, or via an online submission form.

For the online option, visit www.nwabusinessjournal.com and click on the “Best In Class” tab to reach the nomination form.

In conjunction with the Fast 15 issue, Jeff Clapper will be the featured speaker at the Business Journal’s Fast 15 event, to be held May 10 at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. United Bank of Springdale sponsors the event.

Clapper is chairman and chief executive officer of 8th & Walton, a Bentonville company that offers training and education to retail suppliers of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Clapper was a member of the Business Journal’s 2015 Forty Under 40 class.