See more of this week’s Movers & Shakers, and submit your own announcement at ArkansasBusiness.com/Movers.
Banking
Cassie Swafford has been promoted to human resources and payroll administrator at First Service Bank of Greenbrier. Additionally, Matt Thorpe has been hired as market president in Maumelle.
Eileen Jennings has been promoted to senior director of the small-business division at Arvest Bank of Fayetteville. Jennings, who has 23 years of industry experience, most recently served as director of community lending and investments for the Arvest Opportunity Fund.
J.D. Bischof has been promoted to branch manager of the Kavanaugh Boulevard location in Little Rock of First Community Bank of Batesville.
Business Services
Daniel Palmer, senior vice president of data science at Engine of Rogers, has been awarded the Innovation of the Year Award by the Category Management Association of Chicago.
Education
Amber Booth-McCoy, chief executive officer of The Diversity Booth Inc., has been named to the board of directors of the Alumni Association at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Other new appointments to the board include Aaron Huntley, senior vice president and head of strategy for First Western Bank; Arlton Lowry, founding partner and chief creative officer at Few; and Sharmin Moody, field manager for Volante Systems.
Randy Lawson has been appointed to the University of Arkansas board of trustees by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Lawson, a 1981 graduate of the University of Arkansas, is an adviser on the geosciences advisory board in the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences and an executive adviser to the dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business.
Government
Jay Harton has been named director of the Division of Information Systems at the Department of Transformation & Shared Services in Little Rock. Harton has served as interim director since February 2024.
Health Care
Dr. Chen Huang, a hematologist and oncologist, has been hired at the Claude Parrish Cancer Center at North Arkansas Regional Medical Center of Harrison. Huang is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and English.
Dr. Justin M. McLawhorn, a dermatologic oncologist and skin cancer surgeon, has been hired as the director of dermatologic oncology at the University of Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute of Little Rock.
Shannon Sparrow has been named home care representative at Right at Home Little Rock Metro.
Investments
Caleb Cole has been hired as an executive sales representative for institutional sales at the Searcy office of Crews & Associates of Little Rock.
Tom Cirbus has been appointed chief financial officer and corporate secretary at BSR Real Estate Investment Trust of Little Rock. With the appointment of Cirbus, Susan Rosenbaum will step down as the interim CFO and continue in her role as the chief operating officer.
Media & Marketing
Lea Whitlock has been hired as a public relations manager at The Peacock Group of Little Rock. Whitlock most recently served as senior public relations manager at Stone Ward of Little Rock.
Nonprofits
Don C. Bragg, Greg L. Hay and Pete W. Prutzman have been inducted into the Arkansas Foresters Hall of Fame, which is located in the Forest Resources Building at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.
Retail
Linda Hinton has been hired as general manager and marketing director at the Promenade at Chenal. Hinton returns to the Promenade at Chenal in an expanded role after previously working at the property from 2011 to 2020.
Utilities
Brett Taylor has been promoted to telecom installer technician 2 in the telecommunications department at Conway Corp. Taylor was promoted after receiving the Broadband Wireless Specialist certification from the Society of Cable Telecommunication Engineers of Exton, Pennsylvania. In addition, Wesley Fason has been promoted to apprentice lineman 3 in the electric department.
Emily Pennel has been named chief of staff at Southwest Power Pool of Little Rock, and Carrie Simpson has been named vice president of markets.
Olivia Hope has been promoted to vice president of technology at Powers of Arkansas of North Little Rock.
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