The Arkansas Research Alliance has announced the addition of three new members to the its Board of Trustees: Anthony Graham, Chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff; Phillip Poston, chief development officer of Hytrol Conveyor Co. of Jonesboro; and Jamie Pafford-Gresham, president and CEO of Pafford Medical Services of Hope.
ARA, which was recently awarded $8 million in NSF EPSCoR funding, is a nonprofit organization tasked with creating economic and social impact by fostering collaborations between the research community and industry.
The ARA Board of Trustees includes leading institutions from the academic and private sectors.
“We welcome these truly exceptional leaders to ARA’s Board and their embrace of our model that invests in the power of human ingenuity to conduct industry-facing research and grow the economy,” Bryan Barnhouse, president and CEO of ARA, said in a press release. “Our Board of Trustees is our greatest voice for research.”
The ARA Board of Trustees
- Ritter Arnold (Chair), Ritter Farms
- Charles Nabholz (Treasurer), The Nabholz Group
- Dr. Anthony Graham, UAPB
- Dr. Todd Shields, Arkansas State University
- Dr. Christy Drale, UA Little Rock
- Dr. Deacue Fields, UA System Division of Agriculture
- Dr. Charles Robinson, University of Arkansas
- Chris Barber, St. Bernards Healthcare
- Curtis Barnett, Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield
- Dan Brown, Big River Steel
- Marty Casteel, Simmons Bank
- Chris Hart, Central Moloney, Inc.
- Sonja Hubbard, The Yates Group
- Jerry Jones, LiveRamp
- Laura Landreaux, Entergy Arkansas
- Judy McReynolds, ArcBest
- Jamie Pafford-Gresham, Pafford Medical Services
- Phillip Poston, Hytrol Conveyors
- Mike Ross, Southwest Power Pool
- Reynie Rutledge, First Security Bank
- Chase Selby, CTEH
- Andrea Shoppach, Walmart
- Michael Verdesca, Murphy USA, Inc.
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