See more of this week’s Movers & Shakers, and submit your own announcement at ArkansasBusiness.com/Movers.
Agriculture
Blake Rollins has been hired as executive vice president at the Poultry Federation of Little Rock. Rollins most recently served as the chief administrative officer at the Missouri Farm Bureau.
Architecture & Engineering
Jason Underwood has been hired as a project manager II at the Bentonville office of Henderson Engineers of Lenexa, Kansas.
Banking
Ashley Ludwig has been promoted to loan operations post-closing lead at First Service Bank of Greenbrier. In addition, Ireland Green has been hired as a marketing assistant at First Service Bank of Greenbrier.
Dan Binder has been appointed to a three-year term on the Little Rock Branch board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Binder is currently senior vice president and global treasurer of Walmart Inc. of Bentonville.
Josh Baker has been promoted to city president for the central Arkansas market at Citizens Bank of Batesville.
Megan Tuggle has been promoted to assistant vice president, credit card manager at First Community Bank of Batesville.
Business Services
Jason Krutz has been hired as vice president of research and sustainable development at Chicot Insights, a newly formed consulting entity of Chicot Irrigation of Lake Village.
Education
Angela Stroud has been named development officer for the Office of Institutional Advancement at Arkansas State University-Beebe.
Emily Moore has been named dean of the College of Education & Social & Behavioral Sciences at John Brown University of Siloam Springs.
Ginger Gummelt has been hired as the dean of the College of Business, Health & Human Services at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Gummelt most recently served as chair of the Department of Sociology, Social Work & Criminal Justice at Lamar University of Beaumont, Texas.
J. Scott Cordova has been hired as an assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute.
Paul Thibado, a professor of physics at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has been named to the 2025 class of senior fellows at the National Academy of Inventors of Tampa, Florida. Thibado, who has been with the university since 1996, has submitted 17 invention disclosures and received seven patents in his career, six of which have been licensed.
Government
Autumn Hamit Patterson has been hired as the solicitor general in the Office of the Attorney General of Arkansas in Little Rock.
Health Care
Karen Martin has been named community relations director at Pinnacle Place of Little Rock. Martin previously was director of business development for The Springs of Arkansas in Fairfield Bay.
Media & Marketing
Brian Wolf has been promoted to senior art director at The Communications Group of Little Rock.
Nonprofits
Samantha Sanders, a U.S. Department of Agriculture analyst with Stone Bank, has been appointed chairman of the central regional board of directors of Junior Achievement of Arkansas of Little Rock. Other new appointments are Kelly Suen, senior private banker at Arvest Bank, as vice chairman; and Russ Martin, executive vice president and chief credit officer at Relyance Bank, as treasurer.
Tourism
Wesley Oliver has been hired as director of sales at Visit Bentonville. Other new hires include Kim Krutsch as meeting sales manager, Amy Springer as sports sales manager, and Nicole Curbow as outdoor events and sales manager.
Utilities
David Hillis, plant operator at the Roger Q. Mills Water Treatment Plant, is retiring from Conway Corp. Hillis began his career at Conway Corp. in June 2000.
Felek Abbas has been named senior vice president, chief technology and security officer at Southwest Power Pool of Little Rock. The new position combines Abbas’ duties as chief security officer with new duties overseeing information technology and corporate facilities.
Tyler Pierce has been promoted to utility worker in the water department of Conway Corp. Additionally, Tylor McPherson and Cody Tackett have been promoted to apprentice lineman 4 in the electric department.
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