BUSINESS PEOPLE
ARTS
Low Key Arts announced the hiring of Brad Burleson as director of development.
BANKING
Three senior officers at Stone Bank have been promoted. Joe Dunn is now chief lending officer. Blake Fletcher will serve as Little Rock market president and Sandy Straessle assumes the position of chief retail banking officer.
BUSINESS
Leo Cummings III has been promoted to senior vice president of development for the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce.
ENGINEERING
Cromwell Architects Engineers announced that the company’s board of directors has appointed both Todd Kuhn, PE and Rob Seay, PE to the positions of executive vice president.
EDUCATION
Elexus Jordan has been named director of development at Mid-America Science Museum.
LAW
The partners of Wright Lindsey Jennings have elected into partnership Nicholas D. Hornung and Jessica Pruitt Koehler.
Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. has welcomed attorney John Johnson to the firm. He joins the litigation practice in Little Rock.
MARKETING
Ron White Jr. has joined marketing, communications, signage and graphics provider Allegra & Image360 to work on the business development team.
MEDICAL
Auras Atreya, M.D., MPH, a specialist in advanced cardiac electrophysiology (heart rhythm management), has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine and Teresa Hudson, Pharm.D., Ph.D., has been named as assistant dean for health services research.
NONPROFIT
Arkansas Children’s Foundation has promoted long-time fundraising executive Enid Olvey, CFRE, to the position of president. Her predecessor, Fred Scarborough, CFRE, will continue serving as chief development officer for Arkansas Children’s health system.
Allison Cox will serve as the new board chair for the Alzheimer’s Association Arkansas Chapter. Ellon Cockrill, who has been serving as chair, is stepping down but remains on the board as membership chair.
Jay Barth, Ph.D. has joined the City Year Little Rock board.
Keesa Smith has been named executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.
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