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Forty Under 40: Stacey A. Zimmerman

Stacey A. Zimmerman, 36, decided early that she wanted to practice law. “I was in the seventh or eighth grade when I discovered people who liked to argue could become…

After 10 years in BudgeText Corp.’s retail sales division, Park Anders was promoted two years ago to the family business’ corporate offices in Fayetteville. Now BudgeText’s vice president of operations,…

Forty Under 40: Jennifer Apolskis

Jennifer Apolskis, 32, grew up in North Little Rock and earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Arkansas in 1990. From 1991 to 1994, she was a…

Forty Under 40: Matt Bodishbaugh

A former lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, Matt Bodishbaugh, 33, has come full circle. The Fayetteville native says the reasons he left Northwest Arkansas after graduating from the University of…

Forty Under 40: Nat Bothwell

He studied business and economics at Hendrix College in Conway, but that doesn’t mean Nat Bothwell, 28, had dreams of being a banker. Marketing was his intended profession. But Bothwell…

Forty Under 40: J. Kevin Brown

J. Kevin Brown, 32, has trouble telling work from play. The vice president for information systems at StaffMark Inc. has been working with computer systems since his freshman year at…

Forty Under 40: Greg Cherry

Greg Cherry, 33, joined Springdale Tractor Co. as a salesman in 1986 and has been there ever since. These days, Cherry, who graduated from Springdale High School in 1984, is…

Forty Under 40: Bruce Dunn

To many people in Fayetteville, Bruce Dunn is Mister Guy. Dunn, 35, has been with the specialty clothing store since graduating from the University of Arkansas in 1986 with a…

Forty Under 40: Jeff Dunn

Jeff Dunn, 37, says he always tries to remember one thing in business: “I like to try to treat people the way I would want them to treat me.” Treating…

Forty Under 40: Travis L. Fink

At age 25 and just one year out of college, Travis Fink has already been running his own business for two years. “I was just a little impatient,” he says…

Forty Under 40: Linda Goggans

Linda Goggans, 30, grew up in Tulsa and earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from University of the Ozarks in Clarksville. She worked for two years in marketing for…

Forty Under 40: Mark Henry

Mark Henry, 32, has been in the food business since graduating from the University of Arkansas in 1990. Henry, a Springdale native, received a bachelor’s degree in communications from the…

Forty Under 40: Holly Hill

After more than two years with the United Way of Rogers-Lowell, Holly Hill, 35, was recently promoted to vice president. A University of Arkansas graduate with a degree in social…

Forty Under 40: Brock Hoskins

Brock Hoskins, 32, has been vice president and manager of the Fayetteville office for Garver Engineers since March. He had been with the company in its Little Rock office since…

Forty Under 40: Rhonda Hughes

Few people who know Rhonda Hughes today would recognize the person she was upon graduating from Elkins High School. “I was very, very shy, very self-conscious and not at all…

Forty Under 40: Alex Jerde

Alex Jerde, 37, has spent 21 years in the hotel industry and the last six as general manager of The Hilton Fayetteville. A native of St. Cloud, Minn., Jerde joined…

Forty Under 40: Dennis Leatherby

A Tyson Foods Inc. acquisition of Holly Farms in 1989 also got the company a new employee. Corporate banker Dennis Leatherby, 38, counted Tyson as one his clients in the…

Forty Under 40: Tim M. Lewis

Tim M. Lewis, 39, has worked for his family’s business for the past 20 years. Lewis, who grew up in Fayetteville, left college at the age of 19 to start…

Forty Under 40: Karen Light

Karen Light, 30, is a woman from Hope who’s managed to combine her two areas of professional interest – law and business – into one job. In her position as…

Forty Under 40: Rick Ludeman

Rick Ludeman, 39, got into the building materials business at the age of 14 when he started working part time for Joe Reedy at Reedy’s Hardware in Vermilion, S.D. He…