Tag: forty-under-40

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…

Forty Under 40: Dr. Missy Clifton

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,…

Forty Under 40: Mel Collier

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…

Forty Under 40: Tai Crater

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…

Forty Under 40: Hector Cueva

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…

Forty Under 40: Marty Dennis

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…

Forty Under 40: Sarah Sparks Diebold

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…

Forty Under 40: Ron Drake

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…

Forty Under 40: Scott Elliott

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…

Forty Under 40: Blake Evans

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….

Forty Under 40: Heather Fallen

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…

Forty Under 40: Rick George

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…

Forty Under 40: Brian Glenn

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…

Forty Under 40: Brad Hammond

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…

Forty Under 40: Brent Henry

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.,…

Forty Under 40: Tracey Jeffers

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…

Forty Under 40: Dustie Jenkins

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…

Forty Under 40: Jeffrey Kemp

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…

Forty Under 40: Greg Langham

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….

Forty Under 40: Christina Lusk

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….