A directory of Profiles for Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Awards
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Sarah Sparks Diebold was raised in Texarkana, Texas. She graduated from the University of Arkansas business college in 1995. That same year, she started work with Tyson Foods Inc. of…
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Although Ron Drake has done backbreaking drywall work and now refurbishes older homes, he claims hes never had a real job. Im pretty much an entrepreneur, he said. Through his…
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Scott Elliott lost 15 pounds during the first two weeks he worked for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. He was loading trucks at the Bentonville warehouse. Now, 15 years later, Elliott is…
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Blake Evans always knew when he took over his familys company, Peterson Industries, he would have some big shoes to fill. His grandfather, Lloyd Peterson, started the company in 1930….
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Heather Fallen has done everything from swimsuit modeling for Stuff magazine to serving as a personal trainer for the Army folks from the Pine Bluff Arsenal. The Fayetteville native studied…
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Springdale native Rick George, son of poultry pioneers Luther and Helen George, learned from his parents that success can be achieved even through adversity. After graduating from the University of…
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Less than a year and a half after it opened its doors, Legacy National Bank had committed to $202 million in loans and actually funded more than $126 million, thanks…
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Brad Hammond has been building since he was a kid growing up in Fayetteville. With a grandfather and father in the bricklaying business, Hammond made an easy transition from Legos…
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For Brent Henry, a little speculative investing during his senior year in college led to a career with one of the worlds leading financial management companies. Raised in Madison, Wis.,…
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Tracey Jeffers developed an interest in helping small businesses during her first professional job working for the Chamber of Commerce in Las Cruces, N.M., in 1988. Three years later, she…
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Dustie Jenkins has never met a stranger. He loves getting to know his employees and his customers and has used that knowledge throughout his sales and marketing career to outwork…
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Jeffrey Kemp has known that he wanted to work in commercial real estate since childhood. As a kid, Kemp constantly asked his best friends father, a commercial real estate professional…
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Greg Langham is proof that a local doesnt have to travel far to land a great career and fly high. Raised in Goshen, Langham always had an interest in computers….
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Christina Lusk turns relationships into business opportunities. When her parents lived in Russia from 1995-1998, Lusk started an import company in Southern Colorado that specialized in Russian gifts and collectibles….
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Matthew Mason saw more grain than greenbacks in his future when he left the University of Arkansas with a masters degree in agricultural economics in 1993. During graduate school, the…
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Joe McClung was born in Prescott, Ariz., but his family moved to Eureka Springs in 1973 to pursue a business opportunity in real estate sales and to fish. There arent…
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Patti Metcalf-Kimbrough has a job most Razorbacks fans would die for. As director of guest services for mens athletics at the University of Arkansas, she sees a lot of games,…
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Jason Nichol grew up in Royse City, Texas, and earned a bachelors degree in agribusiness in 1993 from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. In 1994, he went…
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After graduating from the University of Arkansas in 2000, Conway native Justin Salter worked as a bank examiner for the Arkansas State Bank Department in Little Rock for about three…
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Amber Savage made her first dress at age 6 and earned a commission as a professional artist before leaving Rogers High School in 1998. Following graduation, she pursued a career…
