by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-Forty Under 40: Marty Clark
Watching his father work as partner in Brown Hiller Clark & Associates in Fort Smith, Marty Clark started learning and enjoying the aspect of risk management and insurance programs. After…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-Watching his father work as partner in Brown Hiller Clark & Associates in Fort Smith, Marty Clark started learning and enjoying the aspect of risk management and insurance programs. After…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-Entrepreneurship runs in the family for Dr. Mildred Missy Clifton. Following the examples of her grandparents and parents, both of whom owned successful retail businesses in her hometown of Dardanelle,…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-Mel Collier grew up in the drug store business. At the age of 9, he was working at his fathers pharmacy on Dickson Street, trying to raise money to buy…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-Managing daily cash activities for a Fortune 75 company would intimidate many people, but for Tai Crater, its just another day on the job. Crater, who grew up in El…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-Hector Cueva started his newspaper career as a delivery boy in his hometown of Oxnard, Calif. Now, he is circulation director for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazettes Northwest Arkansas operation, which has…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-Marty Dennis has a bachelors degree in psychology and a masters degree in public administration. But the two prepared him for a career as a financial adviser, he said. Born…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-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…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-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…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-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…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-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….
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-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…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-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…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-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…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-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…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-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.,…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-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…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-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…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-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…
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-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….
by January 1, 2006 12:00 am
-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….