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IA Interviews: The CEO Tech Forum

David Sanders, Director of Innovate Arkansas (IA) at Winrock, interviews Mike Smith and Tim McFarland, leaders of the CEO Tech Forums for Innovate Arkansas clients. If you’re the busy leader of a dynamic organization, it’s hard to find the perfect time, environment, and people with whom to process t...

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Refining the Process: How a new tech CEO with deep industry connections gets help from Innovate Arkansas

Little Rock-based Global Fuel Recovery, founded by Mike Smith (above), cuts down waste by matching used oil generators with vetted collection companies that have insurance and properly maintained facilities, and then routing that oil to refineries. Photo By Gabe Gentry.It was 2015 and the oil market...

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Growing Business Through Peer Support

As busy leaders of dynamic organizations, CEOs often lament how hard it is to find the time and environment to process challenges only they can understand. “It is lonely at the top,” as they say. To meet this need, Innovate Arkansas (IA) has developed a unique series of forums that bring t...