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• Crye-Leike Realtors has named Joseph Hudack as vice president and managing broker of Crye-Leike Commercial and Property Management Division in Northwest Arkansas. Hudack will be based out of the Crye-Leike's Regional Headquarters at 3469 West Walnut in Rogers. Prior to joining Crye-Leike, Hudack owned and managed his own real estate and development company. Hudack's career in real estate began upon his graduation from Arizona State University. He joined Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards where he assisted in the management of six real estate limited partnerships and two research development partnerships. Before launching his own firm, Hudack spent more than seven years as a senior manager in the real estate department with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., providing oversight and management to a portfolio of more than 400 properties valued in excess of $400-million.

• Lance Foster, M.D., has been promoted to Chief Medical Officer for Ozark Guidance in Springdale. Foster earned his medical degree from the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Kansas City, Mo. He completed his general psychiatry residency and fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Va., where he was chief resident before serving as an attending psychiatrist at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. As Chief Medical Officer, Foster is responsible for the supervision, recruitment, and retention of staff physicians and nurses and clinical quality facilitation and development. He serves as the medical liaison with key medical community stakeholders and is a member of Ozark Guidance's Executive and Leadership teams. Foster is board certified in general psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and also board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is professionally affiliated with the American Psychiatric Association, Arkansas Psychiatric Society, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American College of Physician Executives.

• Several Northwest Arkansas real estate agents were recently honored for performance by EXIT Realty. Michael Robinson and Jean Ann Gilbert, agents with EXIT Realty Northwest in Bentonville, were recently given the Bronze Award in recognition of achieving more than 25 closed transaction sides from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008. Bronze Awards were also given to Ryan Russell, Timothy Salmonsen and Cameron Torabi of EXIT Pinnacle Realty in Rogers.

• Scott Caldwell has been named Vice President-Marketing Services at the Springdale office of Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods, one of the Mid South's largest full-service communications firms. Caldwell replaces Michele Bond, who left the agency to oversee Tyson Foods' customer marketing group earlier this month. Caldwell has 10 years of experience in the communications industry, working with MARS Advertising, Malone Advertising and Blackwood Martin/CJRW (now CJRW NW). A graduate of Hendrix College in Conway, Caldwell has served on numerous boards in the area, including the SIFE Business Advisory Board at the University of Arkansas Walton College of Business, Rebuilding Together of Northwest Arkansas, and Habitat for Humanity of Fayetteville.

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