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Executive of the Year

Mitch Bettis, publisher of Arkansas Business

A Message From Mitch Bettis, President of Arkansas Business Publishing Group

Being a CEO, CFO, board member or any senior company leader has always been challenging, but in recent years, the role has grown uniquely difficult and more complex. 

Small Private Company: Jacy Daugherty

Jacy Daugherty can’t remember a time when he wasn’t around construction. That comes from growing up around his father’s work as an engineer and his uncle’s work as an architect.

Small Private Company: Bill McCrary

While working for more than a decade in medical device sales and sales management, Bill McCrary developed a love for the health care industry. When he was offered the job as CEO of Pain Treatment Centers of America in 2015, he jumped at it. 

Small Private Company: Dan Sanker

Dan Sanker doesn’t like it when things don’t work perfectly. That mindset drove him to found CaseStack, a logistics company, in 1999, and SupplyPike, a software company, in 2018. SupplyPike, […]

Small Private Company: Sharon Tallach Vogelpohl

Sharon Tallach Vogelpohl broke into advertising at 4, making commercials for the family car dealership, Edward Motor Co. in Hot Springs. In one of those TV ads, her dad, Ed […] read more >

Large Private Company: Daniel Brown

Daniel Brown has worked in many steelmaking capitals in his 30-year career: Pittsburgh; Birmingham, Alabama; Detroit; and now Osceola, Arkansas. Pittsburgh is home to his employer, U.S. Steel, and Osceola […] read more >

Large Private Company: Kristi Casey

In 2019, Kristi Casey received a call from a stranger that changed her professional life.  Merritt Dake, co-founder of Rock Dental Brands of Little Rock, wanted her to be the […] read more >

Large Private Company: Patrick Schueck

Ask Patrick Schueck what business executive he looks up to most, and the answer is fairly obvious — his dad.  But Schueck’s decision to never steer too far from the […] read more >

Large Private Company: Chase Selby

When some of the biggest calamities of the 21st century shook the world, Chase Selby and his environmental consultancy responded. After the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico exploded […] read more >

Small Nonprofit: Tyler Clark

Clark is president & CEO of the Single Parent Scholarship Fund of NWA. read more >

Small Nonprofit: Christie Jordan

Jordan is CEO of Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas. read more >

Small Nonprofit: Erica Kennemer

Kennemer is founder & executive director of HorsePlay Hippotherapy & Therapeutic Riding Inc. of Greenbrier. read more >

Small Nonprofit: Diane LaFollette

LaFollette is CEO of the Mid-America Science Museum of Hot Springs. read more >

Small Nonprofit: Michelle Mothershed

Mothershed is CEO of Compassionately Connected for Veterans Inc. of Little Rock. read more >

Large Nonprofit: Brian Burton

Burton is CEO of Arkansas Foodbank of Little Rock. read more >

Large Nonprofit: Melissa Dawson

Dawson is president & CEO of The Centers of Little Rock read more >

Large Nonprofit: Richard Dunsworth

Dunsworth is president of University of the Ozarks of Clarksville. read more >

Large Nonprofit: Benjamin Johnson

Johnson is president & CEO of the United States Marshals Museum in Fort Smith. read more >

Large Nonprofit: Gregory Wood

Wood is executive director of Hospice of the Ozarks of Mountain Home. read more >

Public Sector/Education: Bryan Day

Day is executive director of Little Rock Port Authority. read more >

Public Sector/Education: Amy Johnson

Johnson is Head of School at Arkansas Virtual Academy in Little Rock. read more >

Public Sector/Education: Cam Patterson

One of the biggest challenges Cam Patterson faced as chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences was COVID-19. UAMS’ finances took a hit during the pandemic as the […] read more >

Public Sector/Education: Todd Shields

Todd Shields’ three-decade career in higher education was a steady climb up the ladder at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, until he made a surprising move. He was named […] read more >

Financial Executive: Jenny Griffin

Jenny Griffin found inspiration from her grandfather and his small accounting business, and a high school accounting class sealed the deal. “I loved it,” said Griffin, who grew up in […] read more >