Tag: forty-under-40

Forty Under 40: Bruce Dunn

To many people in Fayetteville, Bruce Dunn is Mister Guy. Dunn, 35, has been with the specialty clothing store since graduating from the University of Arkansas in 1986 with a…

Forty Under 40: Jeff Dunn

Jeff Dunn, 37, says he always tries to remember one thing in business: “I like to try to treat people the way I would want them to treat me.” Treating…

Forty Under 40: Travis L. Fink

At age 25 and just one year out of college, Travis Fink has already been running his own business for two years. “I was just a little impatient,” he says…

Forty Under 40: Linda Goggans

Linda Goggans, 30, grew up in Tulsa and earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from University of the Ozarks in Clarksville. She worked for two years in marketing for…

Forty Under 40: Mark Henry

Mark Henry, 32, has been in the food business since graduating from the University of Arkansas in 1990. Henry, a Springdale native, received a bachelor’s degree in communications from the…

Forty Under 40: Holly Hill

After more than two years with the United Way of Rogers-Lowell, Holly Hill, 35, was recently promoted to vice president. A University of Arkansas graduate with a degree in social…

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…