Profiles

A directory of Profiles for Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Awards

Forty Under 40: Jesse Core

Jesse Core, 35, has a lot on his plate these days. The Fort Smith native works full time, serves on the Springdale City Council, takes classes through Harding University and…

Forty Under 40: Katherine Armentrout Deck

In a Venn diagram of skydivers and economists, the intersection is most likely just a sliver. But Kathy Deck, 32, occupies that area. Though jumping out of airplanes didn’t prove…

Forty Under 40: Brittney Duke

“Some people grew up Army kids,” Brittney Duke, 32, jokes, “I grew up a retail kid.” That background eventually led her to work with one of the largest marketing firms…

Forty Under 40: Cassie Elliott

Cassie Elliott, 36, learned the value of hard work when she was forced to juggle paying for college with a full-time job. “Working my way through school was a huge…

Forty Under 40: Josh Francis

The ability to meet many different types of people and get to know them on a personal and a professional level is an important asset, and it’s certainly not one…

Forty Under 40: K. Bryan Griggs

From an executive position at the corporate offices of Nike in Portland, Ore., to founding his own athletic and outdoors equipment company, Bryan Griggs made a serious leap of faith….

Forty Under 40: Joy Wooden Hagerty

Wal-Mart has spawned its share of entrepreneurs who have taken lessons from the company and struck out on their own. Joy Wooden Hagerty, 39, is walking that path as a…

Forty Under 40: Joy Heuer

A love for community carried over from New Mexico to Springdale for Joy Heuer, 32. She graduated with a degree in business administration from the University of New Mexico before…

Forty Under 40: Walt Hunnicutt

Walt Hunnicutt, 38, traded grad school for flight school and hasn’t looked back since. He grew up around aviation with his father an aeronautical engineer, but felt flying was an…

Forty Under 40: Scott S. Jeffus

Scott Jeffus, 34, was born in Fayetteville, but from the time he was 8, his family moved all over the state and country due to his father’s ever-changing job in…

Forty Under 40: Neile Jones

Neile Jones, 35, did her first television reporting job when she was only 13. Her father came to her and said, “I want you to turn a package on your…

Forty Under 40: Rob Kimbel

Rob Kimbel, 34, grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, working for his father’s plumbing company. In 1993 his father moved the family business to Northwest Arkansas. During college Kimbel dabbled in…

Forty Under 40: Carmen Kingston

Carmen Kingston, 34, counts Sam’s Club vice presidents Rita Seckington and Sharon Orlopp among her biggest mentors, but Big Bird, Fred Flintstone and Kenny Rogers are up there as well….

Forty Under 40: Tim Lee

Tim Lee’s Internet innovations have changed the way buyers search for homes. Lee’s Web site technology helps more than 15,000 users search more than 600,000 pages of content each day….

Forty Under 40: Todd P. Lewis

When Todd Lewis was a kid, he realized he was good at resolving disputes. That’s what he figured good lawyers did, too, so he set up his career path to…

Forty Under 40: Roger Mace

Roger Mace’s choice of after-hours activities says much about his business style. The Springfield native competes in triathlons in which he not only has to bike, swim and run, he…

Forty Under 40: Brent Massey

Brent Massey, 36, has always possessed a competitive nature. A sports fanatic all his life, Massey’s enthusiasm runs from the outdoors to the work place. But the native of Neosho,…

Forty Under 40: Joshua Q. Mostyn

While other students at the University of North Texas were enjoying care packages of cookies and cards, Joshua Mostyn was pouring over the Northwest Arkansas market reports from his mother….

Forty Under 40: Rodney R. Nathan

Rodney Nathan was working in Dallas in 2004 when his longtime friend and classmate Eddie Armstrong came to him with a plan to create scholarships for students from single-parent households….

Forty Under 40: Joel Sanders

Joel Sanders, 23, didn’t wait for a college diploma to start his career in the real estate industry. During the summer of his sophomore year of college, Sanders earned his…