The Kendal King Group, in-store, retail marketing specialists, announces the appointment of Tina Waggener to its Bentonville office. The addition marks the first new hire of 2014 after a year of several new hires and promotions for the growing company, both in its headquarters office in Kansas City, Mo. and the Northwest Arkansas office in Bentonville.
Waggener joins the company as an account executive after spending 17 years as the executive director of The Cancer Challenge, nonprofit. Since 1994, the organization has contributed over $10 million towards world-class cancer care in Northwest Arkansas. Before her time at the organization, she worked for nine years as creative services director at the Sam’s Club home office.
A native of Quincy, Ill, Waggener studied at Missouri Southern State University earning a bachelor’s degree in business, management and marketing. Waggener and husband Jeff reside in Bentonville.