Profiles

A directory of Profiles for Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Awards

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Women in Business: Mandy Wolff

Residence: Fayetteville Education: B.S., chemistry, Arkansas Tech University Professional background: Wolff was recruited to ARMI in January 2017 for her business and marketing experience and developed a marketing strategy that…

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Women in Business: Jill Wagar

Residence: Bentonville Education: B.S., marketing and public relations, Oklahoma State University Professional background: Wagar’s executive career spans more than 25 years in the medical services, higher education and cultural arts…

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Women in Business: Gail Shepherd

Residence: Fayetteville Education: B.Arch., University of Arkansas Professional background: An award-winning architect and project manager on several nationally recognized projects, Shepherd has practiced at Hight Jackson for 22 years and…

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Women in Business: Suzanne Lantz

Residence: Springdale Education: B.A., architectural studies, University of Arkansas Professional background: Since beginning her work with The Stitt Group, an energy-efficient homebuilder, Lantz has designed more than 800 custom passive-solar…

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Women in Business: Shannon Hendrix

Residence: Springdale Education: B.S. and M.S., dietetics and nutrition, University of Central Arkansas Professional background: Hendrix was named senior vice president and chief administrator at Arkansas Children’s Northwest in 2020….

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Women in Business: Jules Gianneschi

Residence: Rogers Education: B.F.A., fiber design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; M.S., organizational management and design, Capella University Professional background: Gianneschi joined America’s Car-Mart in 2022 as its…

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Women in Business: Lela Davidson

Residence: Rogers Education: B.A., business administration/accounting, University of Washington Professional background: With a wide-ranging digital media and marketing resume, Davidson has held leadership roles for a leading shopper marketing agency…

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Women in Business: Anna Daily

Residence: Fayetteville Education: B.S., biology, Arkansas Tech University; Ph.D., cell and molecular biology, University of Arkansas; postdoctoral, biochemistry, UA Professional background: Daily was recently promoted to chief scientific officer at…

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Women in Business: Elise Alexander

Residence: Dallas and Fayetteville Education: B.S., political science, Texas A&M University; J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law Professional background: Alexander joined farmland investment company AcreTrader shortly after it launched in…

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Fast 15: Ericka Young-Melber

Ericka Young-Melber was 17 when she started her moving company to help afford an adoption. The previous year, the St. Louis area native moved to Fayetteville because Arkansas allows someone…

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Fast 15: Taylor Toreno

Losing her mother at 15 shaped Taylor Toreno and motivated her to be successful. “She always told me I could be whatever I want to be,” Toreno said. “I want…

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Fast 15: Marissa Spear

Marissa Spear readily admits her job title may sound foreboding. “Evaluation can be a scary word for people,” she quipped. But as a public health advocate with the UAMS Office…

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Fast 15: Ryan Pottinger

Growing up in Overland Park, Kan., Ryan Pottinger remembers thinking what an impact his dad had and what a cool job it was. Pottinger decided he wanted to follow in…

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Fast 15: Lourdes “Lulu” Peredo

Lulu Peredo’s parents, her role models, ingrained in her that whatever legacy she leaves has to benefit her community. While she’s still exploring that, she’s living it out at Runway…

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Fast 15: Caleb LeBow

Caleb Lebow is a Hillbilly. He’s from Ozark. It’s the school’s mascot. But he’s far from the cliche underachieving mountaineer. He has a master’s degree in engineering, has his finger…

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Fast 15: Tom Hanna

Fort Smith-based KMW Properties was a “passive” real estate development company primarily supporting the operations of Hanna Oil & Gas. That began to change when Tom Hanna returned to the…

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Fast 15: Tanner Green

An entrepreneur since he was a teen growing up in Farmington, Tanner Green dropped out of the University of Arkansas after one year for an opportunity to join software startup…

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Fast 15: Will Ginger

Will Ginger grew up at Merrill Lynch. The Fayetteville native followed in the footsteps of his mother, Nan Ginger, as they both joined Merrill Lynch full-time after graduating from the…

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Fast 15: Sara Lynn Geiger

With her eyes on Northwest Arkansas’ future, Sara Lynn Geiger is “making sure what we’re doing today results in a better tomorrow.” Geiger works to create a better quality of…