2011 Distinguished Alumni Luncheon
Please ioin us in honoring our 2011 Distinguished Alumni, Friday, Oct. 14, The Peabody Little Rock.
Cynthia Treadwell-McConnell
Distinguished Alumna
BS Accounting 1998, Executive MBA V, 2002
President of Air Transport Services Group Inc., Treadwell-McConnell is the first female president of a major airline company. Cynthia McConnell Prior to her new role this year, for 10 years she was vice president and chief financial officer of Air Transport International, a subsidiary of the Air Transport Services Group, a leading provider of air cargo transportation and services to domestic and foreign air carriers and other companies.
Treadwell-McConnell is an experienced financial professional who was previously managing director of finance at Continental Airlines for four years and served in multiple audit roles for Ernst & Young and PepsiCo. She graduated with honors while receiving a bachelor’s degree in accounting in 1988 and then an executive MBA in 2002 from UALR.
Deans Award for Excellence
MBA 2009
Director of Intergovernmental affairs and Deputy director of policy for Gov. Mike Beebe’s administration, Scott organizes implementation of the governor’s legislative agenda, makes public policy recommendations, and serves as liaison to congressional delegations, federal agencies, White House, National Governors Association, Southern Governors Association, and Delta Regional Authority. Frank ScottIn 2009, he was appointed to serve as the state’s interim health information technology coordinator for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Scott received an MBA with a concentration in strategic management from UALR following a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a sales management concentration from the Fogelman College of Business at the University of Memphis. Scott is a member of the UALR Alumni Association Board of Directors, UALR Management Business Advisory Council, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arkansas board, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.
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Save The Date please contact Will Elliott, Director of EMBA & External Relations at jwelliott@ualr.edu or (501) 569-3208.
Tickets $100.00 per person
$1,000 for a table of ten
RSVP by October 10 to cobdean@ualr.edu or 501.569.3048.