BUSINESS PEOPLE

ADVERTISING

Eric Rob & Isaac has hired copywriter Katie Kemp.

BUILDERS

CDI Contractors has added Keith Binkley to its on-site project staff as superintendent in the company’s Industrial Division.

EDUCATION

The Texarkana School District named Brad Irvin as director of school safety.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

ABC Financial Services, LLC, a software and payment processing provider to the health and fitness industry, appointed Bill Davis as president.

FORESTRY

Allen Bates, former agriculture/horticulture agent for the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service in Garland County, is the new urban forester for the city of Hot Springs.

HEALTH

The Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation has hired Chris Collier as its new executive director.

HIGHER EDUCATION

Angela Wimmer has been named vice chancellor of institutional advancement for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Susan Hurst, associate vice president for Student Financial Services at Ouachita Baptist University, has been appointed to the U.S. Department of Education’s Accreditation and Innovation Negotiated Rulemaking Committee. She will represent financial aid administrators from 6,620 postsecondary institutions around the country.

Tonya Allen, president and chief executive officer of The Skillman Foundation, has been named scholar in residence for the Center on Community Philanthropy at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.

The New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University at Jonesboro has hired Kristin Cohen as assistant dean of student administration and Rajendram Rajnarayanan as assistant dean of research.

The Harding University Office of International Programs has named Daniel Adams the new director of the Harding

University in Greece international studies program. Adams is a professor and the chairman of the department of art and design.

INSURANCE

Brandon Haberer has been promoted to president and chief executive officer of Farm Credit of Western Arkansas, a customer-owned financial cooperative.

LAW

Lawyer Michael McCarty Harrison has joined the Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP firm. Harrison will focus her practice on insurance defense and coverage, products liability, medical malpractice, personal injury defense, transportation litigation, fire/arson investigation and appellate advocacy.

A new class of law clerks joins the Arkansas attorney general’s office for the spring session. Their names and areas in which they will serve as clerks are: Sarah Fendley in the civil department; Hannah Johnston in the state agencies department; Edward Mader in the criminal department; Robert Murphy in the public protection department; Amanda Partridge in the public protection department; Sydney Sadler in the public protection department; Christian Scott in the Medicaid fraud control unit; Chandra Smith in the civil department; Katelyn Spellman in the criminal department.

TECH

Mainstream Technologies has hired Todd Hendricks as senior engineer and Coey Bellinger as software developer.

UTILITY

Conway Corp has promoted Jeff Matthews from public relations coordinator to public relations/production specialist.

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