BUSINESS PEOPLE

BANKING

Alex Beasley has been promoted to loan officer at First Security’s banking center in Jonesboro.

Kay Bowen has been promoted to senior vice president of retail banking, Patty Young has been promoted to senior vice president and chief administrative officer of Union Bankshares Inc., and Ravan Wagner has been hired as a loan officer, all at Union Bank of Mena.

FOOD SERVICES

Sarah Thacker has been named advertising manager for Harps Food Stores.

LAW

Kimberly Eden has joined Riggan, Attorney at Law, as a mobile attorney; she currently practices as a private domestic relations attorney ad litem, as well as working in the field of dependency neglect law.

MEDICAL

Dr. Andrew Perin, an

ophthalmologist specializing in glaucoma, has joined Little Rock Eye Clinic.

Dr. Emmanouil Giorgakis has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences as a liver, kidney and pancreas transplant surgeon.

Dr. Wesley Fiser, a cardiologist, has joined the team at the Baptist Health Heart Institute in Little Rock.

PUBLIC RELATIONS

Keiana Holleman has been hired as a public relations specialist at The Communications Group. She will work with the firm’s agriculture, business-to-business and government-to-citizen clients.

BUSINESS AWARDS

Whitney Horton, of the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center, was recognized as a 2018 State Star at the 38th Annual America’s Small Business Development Center Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.