One of the leading voices on behalf of business and industry in the state, Randy Zook is a former executive with a $200 million Atlanta-based envelope company who in his lobbying and association roles has grown into one of the…
January 2020
- Arkansas' Top Influencers 2020BusinessJanuary 2020Magazine
Arkansas’ Top Influencers 2020: Deke Whitbeck, Arkansas Game & Fish Foundation
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffArkansas’ great outdoors are free for the asking but require substantial annual investment to stay clean, accessible and of sound habitat to support a wide range of plant and animal species. Among the many entities involved in this ongoing effort…
- Arkansas' Top Influencers 2020BusinessJanuary 2020Magazine
Arkansas’ Top Influencers 2020: Kathy Webb, Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance/Little Rock City Board
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffA community servant and activist with a reputation for effective coalition-building, Kathy Webb is the executive director of the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance. The organization is the statewide umbrella for Feeding America food banks and food pantries and the education and…
- Arkansas' Top Influencers 2020BusinessJanuary 2020Magazine
Arkansas’ Top Influencers 2020: Steve Straessle, Catholic High School for Boys
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffIn many ways, Steve Straessle’s ascension to the role of principal of Catholic High School for Boys in Little Rock was a son taking over his father’s business. Straessle, who graduated from Catholic High in 1988, was one of thousands…
- Arkansas' Top Influencers 2020BusinessJanuary 2020Magazine
Arkansas’ Top Influencers 2020: Warren Stephens, Stephens Inc.
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffLittle Rock-based investment bank Stephens Inc. enjoys a unique distinction in the annals of Arkansas business history. Not only does the institution, founded in 1933 by his uncle, Witt Stephens, stand on its own among the titans of Arkansas business,…
- Arkansas' Top Influencers 2020BusinessJanuary 2020Magazine
Arkansas’ Top Influencers 2020: Shelley Simpson, J.B. Hunt Transport Services
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffIn the rough-and-tumble man’s world of over-the-road trucking, J.B. Hunt Transport Services has always stood out for strong women in key positions, starting with co-founder Johnelle Hunt. To that distinguished list add Shelley Simpson, chief commercial officer and president of…
- Arkansas' Top Influencers 2020BusinessJanuary 2020Magazine
Arkansas’ Top Influencers 2020: Frank Scott Jr., Mayor of Little Rock
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffLittle Rock voters made history Dec. 4, 2018, when they selected Frank Scott Jr. the city’s 73rd mayor and first elected African American to hold the office. A product of southwest Little Rock, Scott was educated in the publicschool…
- Arkansas' Top Influencers 2020BusinessJanuary 2020Magazine
Arkansas’ Top Influencers 2020: Joe Saumweber, RevUnit
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffNot unlike Austin and Nashville before it, Northwest Arkansas is a rapidly developing hub of activity, bolstered by multiple Fortune 500 companies and evolving daily with the influx of new thinking and fresh entrepreneurial talent. One such standout here…
- Arkansas' Top Influencers 2020BusinessJanuary 2020Magazine
Arkansas’ Top Influencers 2020: Gina Radke, Galley Support Innovations
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffOf all the adjectives that can be applied to Gina Radke, “self-made” might be the most apropos, and the most satisfying. Radke, with her husband Wade, created Sherwood’s Galley Support Innovations from the carcass of a struggling California interior hardware…
- Arkansas' Top Influencers 2020BusinessJanuary 2020Magazine
Arkansas’ Top Influencers 2020: Elizabeth Pulley, Children’s Advocacy Centers of Arkansas
by AMP Staffby AMP StaffIn 2018, the Arkansas State Police child abuse hotline received more than 30,000 calls and even that sobering number likely doesn’t tell the full story of child abuse in Arkansas. Elizabeth Pulley, executive director for Children’s Advocacy Centers (CAC) of…