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: Andy Murray

Andy Murray, 37, grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and received a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Ohio Tech in 1983. He worked for Procter and Gamble for…

Forty Under 40: David Needham

David Needham was born and raised in Van Buren. In 1987, he earned a bachelor’s degree in radio and television broadcasting from Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. Six months later,…

Forty Under 40: Mark W. Powell

Mark Powell thought it was tough leaving football behind after his high school days, electing to enroll at the University of Tulsa. He learned a tougher lesson when, as a…

Forty Under 40: Steve Proffitt

Steve Proffitt, 38, grew up in Indianapolis, Ind., and went to work for an optical firm in Toledo, Ohio. In 1991, he landed a job in Wal-Mart’s Crawfordsville, Ind., optical…

Forty Under 40: Cary Richardson

As large as poultry giant Tyson Foods Inc. is, Cary Richardson said there is still a family-oriented atmosphere around the workplace. Perhaps that’s why Richardson, senior vice president and general…

Forty Under 40: Angela M. Ryan

Angela Ryan is the queen of the king of beers. As general manager for McBride Distributing Co., Ryan is responsible for one of the largest Budweiser beer distributors in Arkansas….