Ingram's April 2023

CLASS of 2023

CYNTHIA ANDREWS “My career provides me with the opportunity to affect positive change in people’s lives every day.” S0 says Cynthia

to Blue Springs. That program, Exchange City, might be gone, but it left its last ing imprint on Archuletta who, at 35 today, is vice president and senior port folio manager for Academy Bank. “I was hooked,” he says of that grade-school experience. His career started with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City as a bank examiner “at the height of the Great Recession, when banking was not in favor,” he notes. For the past eight years, he’s been in commercial bank ing, focusing on small to medium-sized operating businesses and their financing needs. “Over that time frame, I've helped to facilitate more than $300 million in capital for Kansas City-area based com panies and find enjoyment seeing the dozens of companies and owners I work Andrews, the 36-year-old human resources manager for Midway Ford Truck Center in Kansas City. There, she says, “intentional and selective hiring processes have been the cornerstone of cultiva-ting Midway's culture of engaged and empowered employees who consistently go above and beyond to satisfy our customers.” Those standards, twinned with other tech tools, have created an engaged, happy, and loyal cohort of roughly 270 employees aligned behind a mission: “To serve our customers so well they remain loyal to Midway,” she says. Her work at the employee-owned company contributes to a turnover rate of 13 percent, far below the industry average of 34 percent, and nearly half

with grow and thrive,” Archuletta says. At Academy, he helps provide financing for the acquisition of companies with rev enues between $10 million and $100 mil lion—“typically, Baby Boomers who have all of their retirement dreams wrapped up in the company,” he says. His two children, ages 3 and 8, command much of his after-hours attention, and he’s worked with Junior Achievement, including vol unteer services with its BizTown simula tor, where he says he hopes “to ignite a student's passion like Exchange City did for me all those years ago.” Archuletta has also been an active member of the Boys & Girls Clubs’ Emerging Leaders Council, including a stint as co-chair for the annual Brims & Bowties Kentucky Derby fundraiser and club engagement. the work force—47 percent—has been employed at Midway for at least a decade; 21 percent for at least 25 years. “My commitment as the human resources manager is to serve ouremployees so they are able to serve our customers,” she says, and that seems to be working out just fine: last year's sales topped $1 billion for the first time in Midway's history. Outside of work, Andrews says her faith “calls me to serve people and the community I live in thro- ugh Meals on Wheels, Salvation Army Christmas Meal Delivery, and other charity walks and events when possible.” There’s plenty to do at home, as well, as a working mother of four—ages 9 to 16.

SCOTT ARCHULETTA It’s 1998, and Scott Archuletta is in fifth grade, playing the role of bank presi dent during a career exploration field trip

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