A directory of Profiles for Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Awards
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Jeff Lynch, 37, is new to Northwest Arkansas having moved to Fayetteville just three months ago, but he’s learned banking from the ground up. “I started working as a teller,…
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Andy Murray, 37, grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and received a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Ohio Tech in 1983. He worked for Procter and Gamble for…
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David Needham was born and raised in Van Buren. In 1987, he earned a bachelor’s degree in radio and television broadcasting from Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. Six months later,…
