BUSINESS PEOPLE
BANKING
Citizens Bank has promoted Katherine Harris to assistant vice president and retail branch manager at its financial services headquarters in Batesville.
Simmons Bank has named Franklin Shirrell chief retail officer.
EDUCATION
The University of Central Arkansas Alumni Association Board of Directors announced Katie Henry and Bobby Reynolds as the newest additions to the board.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Mainstream Technologies has announced the hiring of Benson Schneider as software developer.
MARKETING
The Little Rock Regional Chamber named Ben France as vice president of economic development.
MEDICAL
Arkansas Surgical Hospital has announced the hiring of spine surgeon Phillip M. Porcelli.
Dr. Omar T. Atiq, a professor of medicine and otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has been named chair-elect
of the board of governors of the American College of Physicians, the national organization of internists.
MUSEUM
The Firehouse Hostel & Museum has hired Debra Carl Freeman as the new general manager and added two new board members, Tonya Hocks and Ellen Harrington.
BUSINESS AWARDS
Maria Smedley, vice president of human resources and strategy for Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. and Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc., was recently awarded the 2018 Chief Human Resources Officers Leader of Distinction Award at the North American HRO Today Forum.
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