CEO

Ryan Flynn was named president of Network Services Group in late 2013. Network Services Group provides IT support and voice-over IP telephony solutions for many businesses across the state. Under his leadership, NSG has grown from 11 employees and a single location in North Little Rock to 85 employees and three locations in Arkansas. Flynn also has served as president of the Cabot Rotary Club, two terms on the city council of Cabot, on the Cabot Parks and Recreation Commission and on the Lonoke County Election Commission.

revenue-producing strategies that benefit the member organizations of ARHP. He successfully oversees millions of dollars in grant funding and hospital operating budgets each year and consistently finds innovative approaches to meet the needs of the hospitals he serves.

Born, raised in southeast Arkansas, Gorman has a unique understanding of the importance of rural health care. He is an active member of the Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Arkansas Healthcare Financial Management Association and is the past chairman of the Arkansas Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Audit Committee. Brandon received his degree in accounting from the University of Central Arkansas.

Laura Grimes

Conway Area Chamber of Commerce

Laura Grimes has been the CFO for the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce and Conway Development Corporation for 12 years. Raised in Springdale, she graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1992 with a degree in accounting. Grimes is a certified public accountant and has experience working in public and private accounting.

Grimes has a desire to serve her community, and working with these nonprofit entities has been the perfect fit. Since her start, organizational revenues have nearly doubled as have the number of employees. The Chamber and its sister organizations have completed a number of ambitious projects and the chamber has twice been named National Chamber of the Year by the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives.

Jeff Holt

Stallion Transportation Group

Jeff Holt has been the chief financial officer of Stallion Transportation Group in Beebe since it started in August 1992. Having earned an accounting degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Holt was working at his sister’s insurance company when Butch Rice, CEO and president of Stallion, approached him about joining his startup company. Rice and Holt had been friends since childhood, having grown up together on the same street in the Rose City neighborhood of North Little Rock.

Holt remembers Stallion’s first full year of revenue being less than $2 million. Stallion has now grown to more than 150 employees and $70 million in annual revenue. Holt credits this success to Stallion being blessed and surrounded with very talented people for the past three decades.

“I have had the benefit over the years of being deeply involved, not just financially, but operationally and strategically as the company has grown,” Holt said.

He is active with numerous organizations and has served on several nonprofit boards, including the Conway Area Chamber of Commerce, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Boys and Girls Club,

Gideons International, Rotary International, Salvation Army and the United Way of Central Arkansas.

Lexanne Horton

Ritter Communications

Lexanne Horton was hired as E. Ritter Company’s controller in February of 2015. In October 2019, she was promoted to vice president and controller and today she serves as the CFO of Ritter Communications. She oversees accounting, financial planning and analysis, treasury management, billing, risk management and purchasing. Horton holds an MBA from Union University as well as a BBA in accounting from the University of Memphis.

Prior to joining Ritter, she spent 24 years in the health care industry and started her career with Deloitte and Touche. A native of Jackson, Tennessee, Horton serves on the board of directors for CASA of the 2nd Judicial District of Arkansas Court Appointed Special Advocates, an organization that provides support and advocacy for children who are in the foster system, and serves on the board and the Workforce Development Committee at the Chamber of Commerce of Jonesboro.

Jeremy Jeffery

Jefferson Regional

Jeremy Jeffery serves as senior vice president and chief financial officer for Jefferson Regional. He originally joined the southeast Arkansas health system in 2008, previously serving as vice president of strategy and business analytics and prior to that as controller. Before joining Jefferson Regional, Jeffery was audit manager with HCJ CPAs & Advisors PLLC. He began his career with FORVIS LLP (formerly BKD) in 2003, working in the health care practice.

He received his MBA and bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Arkansas. Jeffery is a CPA and fellow of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. He currently sits on the Industry Commerce & Banking Committee of the Arkansas Society of CPAs.

Daniel Lewis

Signature Bank

Daniel J. Lewis has been employed with Signature Bank of Arkansas since June 2004. Lewis is a 1979 graduate of the University of Arkansas with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a 1982 graduate of the University of Arkansas Law School with a juris doctorate. He began his banking career at the Bank of Fayetteville (now Arvest) in 1982 and moved to McIlroy Bank and Trust (now Arvest) in 1986 as special assets manager, then later became commercial loan manager. He graduated from the LSU School of Banking in 1990. He returned to Arvest-Fayetteville in 1996 as senior vice president, commercial loan manager and then served