Profiles

A directory of Profiles for Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Awards

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…

Forty Under 40: Jeff Lynch

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,…

Forty Under 40: Hannah McNeill

Hannah McNeill, 33, is working on her biggest project yet. An intern architect at Wischmeyer Architects of Fayetteville, McNeill is working on a new, 24,000-SF medical office building on Millsap…

Forty Under 40: Scott Mills

Born into a family of physicians, Scott Mills grew up thinking he would become a doctor, too. But during his senior year in high school, Mills decided that medicine was…

Forty Under 40: Elise S. Mitchell

Elise S. Mitchell, 37, has worked in marketing and public relations for 16 years, owning her own firm in Fayetteville for the past four years. In 1983, Mitchell earned a…

Forty Under 40: Jack V. Moyer

Jack V. Moyer, 31, has been in the hotel business all of his adult life. Moyer grew up in Elmira, N.Y. He received an associate’s degree from Paul Smiths College,…

Forty Under 40: David D. Nelms

David Nelms, 31, wasn’t thinking about entering the automobile industry when he left Fayetteville for college. Instead, aiming for a career in broadcast journalism, Nelms enrolled at the University of…

Forty Under 40: David M. Nelms

As president and primary stockholder of Arkansas MicroElectronics Development Corp. of Fayetteville, David Nelms is overseeing the development of super-thin electronic components for NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense’s…

Forty Under 40: Rick Rogers

Rick Rogers, 34, a department manager for Civil Environmental Industrial Engineering Associates Inc. of Bentonville, leads a team of nine engineers in catering directly to the development needs of the…

Forty Under 40: Matt Romine

Matt Romine, 26, has already helped found two companies, the first, which sold computers, when he was 18. After a year and a half, however, Romine and his partner decided…

Forty Under 40: Dr. Kenton A. Ross

A native of Wynne, Dr. Kenton A. Ross attended the University of Arkansas and decided then that, if he were to practice dentistry in Arkansas, it would be in Fayetteville….

Forty Under 40: Kelley Shearin

Rogers native Kelley Shearin, 28, got her real estate license when she was only 20 and soon after received the first-ever “Rookie of the Year” award from the Rogers Board…

Forty Under 40: Neil Shipley

Neil Shipley, 32, says he has had a “varied” career. Shipley grew up in Fayetteville. In 1989, he earned a bachelor’s degree in American studies from Tulane University in New…

Forty Under 40: David Siemens

David Siemens, 37, oversees the finance, accounting and general office functions for Hudson & Associates Inc. As vice president of finance and controller, Siemens helps direct the company, which purchases…