Carol Gresham
Personal Experience
Carol has over 30 years of diversified experience in business ownership including the sale of two highly successful companies which she founded. She has been involved in development, marketing, organizational leadership, education, healthcare, the non-profit world and philanthropy. Her work in higher education, real estate and health-care as well as the building of her own successful companies has created a full circle of experience.
Carol’s leadership skills, business and community involvement as well as volunteer leadership with state and national associations has created a network of business partners and friends across Arkansas and the United States.
Carol has been a licensed real estate broker in Arkansas since 1986. She worked with apartment developers across the United States in providing market research and feasibility studies for potential new properties as well as selling existing ones.
Raised in Mountain Home, Arkansas since third grade, Carol is proud of her Arkansas roots. She is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University. She is married to Rip Gresham, also an Arkansas native, entrepreneur and CPA. Together they have owned and operated businesses in Arkansas.
Carol says, “Because of my broad work background and experience at CBI, I have the ability to understand a variety of businesses, organizational structures and communities. Building strong working relationships is a natural because I am able to understand and relate to individual’s business situations and concerns.”