Scott T. Ford

Co-Founder & CEO, Westrock Group, LLC

Scott Ford is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Westrock Group, LLC, a private investment firm he founded with this father.  Westrock Group operates Westrock Coffee Company, LLC, a leading integrated coffee, tea, and extract service provider in the US, and Westrock Asset Management, LLC, an alternative asset management firm.  Scott serves as Chief Executive Officer of Westrock Coffee Company and as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Westrock Asset Management.

Prior to forming the Westrock family of companies, Mr. Ford served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Alltel Corporation where he led the company through several major business transformations, culminating with the sale of the company to Verizon Wireless in 2009 for $29 billion.

He began his career with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets and then spent ten years working for the Stephens family where he worked closely with its renowned Chairman, Jackson T. Stephens.

Mr. Ford currently serves on the Board of Directors of AT&T Inc. and Agaciro Development Fund (the sovereign wealth fund for the Republic of Rwanda).

Mr. Ford holds a B.S.B.A. in Finance from the University of Arkansas.

Myron Jackson

CEO, The Design Group

Myron Jackson is the CEO of The Design Group, a multicultural Communications company based in little rock. The Design Group offers brand strategy, cross-cultural communications, branded creative content, design services, public relations, Media planning and buying, and website development.

Hank Kelley

CEO, Kelley Commercial Partners

Hank Kelley’s commitment to deliver superior service to his brokerage and property management clients has garnered many long-term relationships over his 36-year career. As CEO of Kelley Commercial Partners, Mr. Kelley leads his team to succeed and deliver results to investors, developers, landlords, tenants, and prospects. Mr. Kelley has represented a myriad of clients over the years and maintains a high level of enthusiasm for every transaction each and every day.

Marta Loyd

CEO, Winthrop Rockefeller Institute

Dr. Marta Loyd has served as executive director of the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute since 2014. Under her leadership and guidance, the Institute’s mission has been strengthened and clarified to focus on the Rockefeller Ethic, a unique approach to collaborative problem solving as modeled by Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller. As a team, she and her staff have strengthened external partnerships, nearly doubled the number of program offerings, implemented an evaluation system to measure impact, instituted core values into the organization and secured the Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller Endowment which will fund operations for the Institute. 

Prior to joining the Institute, she spent 17 years working at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, 12 of those serving as vice chancellor for university advancement and as executive director of the UAFS Foundation. During her tenure at UAFS, she led the effort to raise gifts and pledges totaling $57 million, increasing total assets of the foundation from $20 million to nearly $80 million. Prior to taking the helm of the UAFS Foundation, Loyd, a former dental hygienist, led the effort to start the dental hygiene school at then Westark College.

In her community, Dr. Loyd has served as board member for the Morrilton Area Chamber of Commerce and the Petit Jean Mountain Community Association, and recently completed her term on the Federal Reserve Board of St. Louis’ Community Development Advisory Council. 

 Dr. Loyd holds a Master of Education degree from the University of Arkansas and a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Missouri. She also completed the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University. She and her husband, Greg, have been married for 35 years and have three adult children and four grandchildren.