Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
BUSINESS PEOPLE
John C. Eichler of Eichler-Williams Insurance qualified for the insurance industry’s 2014 Million Dollar Round Table. His production allowed him to qualify for “Court of the Table” which requires him to meet at least three times the production needed to qualify for The Million Dollar Round Table itself. Fewer than 1 percent of agents qualify for this award, and Eichler has qualified 41 consecutive years.
Derek McElyea and Shep Campbell were hired at the Northwest Arkansas office of the CBI+Sunbelt Team.
McElyea recently completed his initial training as a business intermediary. He most recently was employed at JB Hunt in Lowell and has an Arkansas real-estate license. McElyea is being mentored by Carl E. Grimes, CBI team chairman, and Casey Grimes, senior intermediary.
Campbell joined the company after being an assistant football coach at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La. He graduated with an English degree from the University of Arkansas. He spent two years working in Arkansas public schools teaching English and coaching.
Allyn Lord, Shiloh Museum of Ozark History director, and Marty Powers, maintenance manager, recently received awards at the Arkansas Museums Association annual conference in North Little Rock.
Lord won the Peg Newton Smith Award for Lifetime Achievement. She has been the director at Shiloh since 2005. She spent 14 years as the registrar for the University of Arkansas Museum before becoming assistant director at the Rogers Historical Museum in 1994. Lord has served on the American Alliance of Museums, the American Association of State and Local History, the Southeastern Museums Conference, the Southeastern Registrars Association, the Arkansas Museums Association, the Historic House Affinity Group, and the Arkansas Humanities Council.
Powers received the Museum Professional of the Year Honorable Mention. He is a retired captain with the Fayetteville Fire Department and began working at the Shiloh Museum in 2008. Powers is responsible for the care and upkeep of the museum’ s interior and exterior spaces, which includes a three-acre campus and seven historic buildings.
Jean Marie Mulloy, is the new director of cardiac rehabilitation at North Arkansas Regional Medical Center in Harrison. She worked at Baptist Health Rural Health
Clinic in Clarendon and Stuttgart, Hospice Home Care of Arkansas, and XL Health in Baltimore.
She has a master’s degree in nursing and is a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner. Mulloy is a member of the Alumni Association of University of Central Arkansas, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society of Nursing and Program Scholar in the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Arkansas State University.
Carey Otwell is the new director of meat and seafood operations at Harps Food Stores. He replaces David Wright, who retired in August 2013.
Otwell has more than 24 years of experience in the meat and seafood retail grocery business and worked for Meijers, Southern Family Markets, Brookshire Grocery Company and Spartan Stores. He is a member of the National Pork Board’s Retail Advisory Committee.
Rhonda Caton, director of procurement and travel services at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, earned the Certified Professional Public Buyer credential from the Universal Public Procurement Certification Council. She will now begin pursuing the Certified Public Procurement Officer qualification, a higher level of certification.
The Mulberry resident is a former recipient of the Lucille Speakman Excellence Award at UAFS, has worked in procurement since 1995 and has a combined 28 years of experience working in higher education. She has held her current position
since 2007.
Russ Greene, CEO of Physicians’ Specialty Hospital in Fayetteville, joined the Women’s Choice Award Healthcare Advisory Board composed of executive level health-care professionals. WomenCertified Inc. is a marketing research firm and home to the Women’s Choice Award.
Greene is a registered nurse with more than 34 years experience in surgery, hospital and surgery center management, and consulting services. He spent more than three years as chief operational officer of US Orthopedics Inc. and one year as vice president of operations for National Surgical Hospitals. He has a nursing degree from the University of Arkansas.
Quintin Trammell has joined Butterfield Trail Village in Fayetteville as the organization’s new chief financial officer. Trammell will direct all fiscal activities, including general accounting, pro-forma development, budgeting and auditing, and will oversee financial reporting to the board of directors.
Trammell served as chief financial officer at the Siloam Springs School District. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the Arkansas Society of CPAs, Washington County Historical Society and the Benton County Historical Society,.