Tag: forty-under-40

Forty Under 40: Barry Graves, 39

Nowadays, Barry Graves is paid to run the company that wouldn’t hire him 15 years ago. In 1992, he was an 18-year-old Springdale High School graduate and began selling real…

Forty Under 40: Ulanda Terry, 30

Hard work and good grades were a big part of Ulanda Terry’s life growing up. Between part-time work and school activities, the Pine Bluff youth definitely stayed busy. “Mom instilled…

Forty Under 40: John Sampson, 32

Mexico native John Sampson vividly recalls the day his mother sent him, herded like cattle, to a chili pepper farm to fill buckets under the sweltering sun for a dollar…

Forty Under 40: Tina Winham, 35

Sometimes, it’s who you know that counts. That age-old adage rang true for Tina Winham, who with a friend’s recommendation launched her career at Cott Beverage while studying business at…

Forty Under 40: Heather M. Bell, 35

Heather Bell has “a first-rate mind and is an even better person,” said Alan Lewis, a member of the Mitchell firm. Bell took one of the longest routes to Northwest…

Forty Under 40: Cody Crawford, 31

Cody Crawford knew by age 16 he wanted to be in the construction business and never lost sight of the dream. Fast-forward through more than 10 years of schooling —…

Forty Under 40: Patrick Curry, 32

Patrick Curry is a master in a field most loathe: tax. A self-described numbers guy, Curry landed a job in the tax department at Deloitte & Touche after earning a…

Forty Under 40: Christie King, 34

Christie King’s parents might’ve guessed she would become an architect. During services at her childhood church in Pine Bluff, she sketched and re-sketched the likeness of a perspective of the…

Forty Under 40: Paul D. Morris, 35

With a bachelor’s degree in international economics and a year’s worth of experience as an investment analyst at Mary Ann Greenwood & Associates, Paul Morris headed to law school in…

Forty Under 40: Adam Rutledge, 29

Adam Rutledge said his current goal is to get more involved in the community and help position First Security to be a success for generations to come. Long-range generational talk…

Forty Under 40: Erin Rushing, 39

Erin Rushing was about to close on a house in Kansas City when a friend said he ought to call CEI Engineering. He put the closing on hold and ended…

Forty Under 40: Brandon Pinkerton, 32

Brandon Pinkerton enjoyed taking apart VCRs and TVs at a young age, so he knew he’d end up working with electrical apparatuses one day. Pinkerton, who grew up in Muldrow,…

Forty Under 40: Rebecca Hurst, 31

Visiting all 50 states is on Rebecca Hurst’s bucket list. The Clarksville native is off to a good start — she’s got 36 under her belt, thanks in part to…

Forty Under 40: Brent Farmer, 36

To Brent Farmer, there’s little more gratifying than starting with a dirt pad, then walking away having built a 276,000-SF high school. The Oklahoma native is proud to say he’s…

Forty Under 40: Robert Baker

Robert Baker, 30, remembers vividly his first Edward Jones experience. A student at Oklahoma State University, Baker had visited about a dozen banks and other businesses in hopes of landing…

Forty Under 40: Nick Bartelt

Though he was a pro water skier in his late teens, Nick Bartelt, 30, started his college career wanting to be an anesthesiologist. But during an internship he found he…

Forty Under 40: Brooke Benham

Brooke Benham, 34, has taught herself everything she knows about designing clothing. She wasn’t formally trained in design and never worked in a clothing store but always dreamed of being…

Forty Under 40: Clinton Bennett

After graduating from the University of Arkansas in 1996 with a degree in agriculture business, Clinton Bennett returned to his hometown of Pocahontas to work on the family’s rice farm….

Forty Under 40: Steve Blair

Steve Blair, 38, was headed for law school when he realized many of his classmates at the University of Missouri were doing the same. He gravitated toward his marketing classes…

Forty Under 40: Jeffrey T. Borgsmiller

As a kid who loved structures, Jeff Borgsmiller naturally gravitated toward the construction field. He got a degree in civil engineering from the University of Colorado in 1993, then a…