Arkansas Business is proud to announce the 2023 CFO of the Year finalists and Lifetime Achievement Award winners.

This year, Kristi Dannelley of GreenPoint CFO of Benton has earned the CFO Lifetime Achievement Award. Charles Warren of Fort Smith Public Schools will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in Accounting.

This is the 14th year that Arkansas Business has honored outstanding CFOs from around the state. Nomination forms were submitted to an independent panel of judges who determined finalists and winners.

The 2023 CFO of the Year Awards will be held Nov. 2 at the Statehouse Convention Center in downtown Little Rock, with Arkansas Business Publisher Mitch Bettis and Editor Lance Turner recognizing the state's top finance and accounting executives.

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Profiles of each finalist and winner will be published in a special supplement of Arkansas Business on Nov. 8.

CFO of the Year 2022 Finalists

CFO LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

Kristi Dannelley, GreenPoint CFO

CFO LIFETIME IN ACCOUNTING

Charles Warren, Fort Smith Public Schools

LARGE PRIVATE COMPANY CFO FINALISTS

Jeff Weatherly, Lexicon

Brady Moore, Priority1

Brady Pipkin, EOS

Chris Shepard, Clark Contractors

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION CFO FINALISTS

Laine Harber, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts

Monique Sanders, Arkansas Foodbank

Susan Singleton, Healthy Connections

Britney Snell, SHARE Foundation

PUBLIC SECTOR/EDUCATION CFO FINALISTS

Russ Hannah, Arkansas State University

Tammy Hall, Harding University

Ember Strange, City of North Little Rock

Misty Eubanks, Arkansas Department of Human Services

Emily Shumate, Arkansas Game & Fish Commission

BANK CFO FINALISTS

Eric Mangham, Arkansas Federal Credit Union

Paul Castleberry, Eagle Bank

Sandy Ferguson, Generations Bank

Brittany Little, Today's Bank

Kim Nunnally, Bank of Cave City

HOSPITAL CFO FINALISTS

Amanda George, UAMS

Andrew Covington, Arkansas Surgical Hospital

Beth Lutes, Ozarks Community Hospital

Nicki Simpkins, Pinnacle Pointe Hospital

SMALL PRIVATE COMPANY CFO FINALISTS

Brian Swindle, Harrison Energy Partners

Taylor Crow, Pain Treatment Centers of America

Brian Smith, Southern Administrative Services

For more information on the CFO of the Year Awards program, click here or contact Events Director Tiffany Mattzela at TMattzela@abpg.com or (501) 455-9334.