The International Business Brokers Association has awarded a Chairman’s Circle Award to Dave Godwin, an executive business broker and certified business intermediary with Confidential Business Intermediaries North-west Arkansas of Springdale.
The award is given to business brokers who close at least one business deal of $3 million or more. Godwin closed $9.75 million in deals in 2021 and was the only broker in Arkansas to receive the award.
Katie Ingram has joined the mortgage lending team at the Jonesboro branch of First Financial Bank of El Dorado. Ingram has a decade of mortgage and banking experience, having previously worked at the Jonesboro branches of First Security Bank of Searcy and Regions Bank of Birmingham, Alabama.
Stacy Matlock is a new vice president and private banking relationship manager at First Horizon Bank of Memphis. Matlock has 30 years of banking experience and was previously a vice president and private banking adviser at Arvest Bank of Bentonville. She will serve First Horizon’s northwest Arkansas market in her new role.
Joe Wheeler will manage the new Jonesboro office of Garland & Greenwood CPAs & Advisors. This will be Garland & Greenwood’s fifth office location in Arkansas. Wheeler is a CPA and has his master’s in accounting from Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.
See more of this week’s Movers & Shakers, and submit your own announcement at ArkansasBusiness.com/Movers.