Pictured above: In 2023, Dassault Falcon Jet announced a $100 million expansion of its Little Rock completion center. (Photo provided) From ammo to airplanes, central Arkansas is in business. The arrival of new companies and the expansion of local mainstays…
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When Marcy Doderer became president and CEO of the Arkansas Children’s in 2013, in a way she was joining the family business. Her father, J.B. Norton, M.D., was the chief of pediatric cardiology at Arkansas Children’s when she was growing…
Christie Erwin was rocking her third child one afternoon when she felt the call that would change her life forever. That was when the woman who would go on to foster more than 50 children and found Project Zero in…
For a young company in a field as competitive as marketing and communications, talent alone is often not enough. Businesses truly built to go the distance are those that see a need in the community and succeed in bridging that…
Though it may not have been where he was born or raised, Jim Ronquest is as much at home in the Natural State as any native-born Arkansan. The famed outdoorsman originally hails from the Missouri Ozarks, but his father’s job…
Southwest Oklahoma native Carlton Saffa found himself immersed in the beauty of Arkansas for the first time while driving through the Bobby Hopper Tunnel on what is now Interstate 49. As a senior in high school, he ventured to Fayetteville…
Almost any career professional will tout the power of relationships, though not many have a story of their utility quite like that of Karen Trevino. Now the president and CEO of North Little Rock Tourism, Trevino has also served as…
Arkansas Business Hall of Famer Frank Fletcher Jr. leaned back in a side chair at the foot of the desk of Thomas Roy III, the longtime chief financial officer at Frank Fletcher Group. During the course of a 30-minute interview,…
His title changed last year from principal to head of school, but Steve Straessle remains the face of Little Rock’s Catholic High School for Boys, the school from which he graduated in 1988. In addition to his administrative duties, Straessle…