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Rick Parsons

Each month, we will be featuring one member of the Excellerate Foundation Board. Our March board member highlight is Rick Parsons.

LAST UPDATED • March 26th, 2021

About Rick

Rick Parsons has been bettering Northwest Arkansas for over 65 years. We are proud to have Rick as a board member at Excellerate Foundation where he serves as our Treasurer. In addition to his long-standing role as Treasurer, he currently serves on our Finance and Housing committees, where he provides us with immeasurable direction, knowledge, and guidance.

Rick has over a 40-year career with Bank of America and also served as a Credit Risk Executive for Coopers & Lybrand for a period of time previous to B of A.

A graduate of the University of Arkansas, Rick and his beautiful family reside in Springdale where they are constantly giving back to our region.

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