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SHARILYN GASAWAY WAS THE woman behind Alltel Corp.'s numbers. Gasaway was the chief financial officer for the Little Rock telecommunications company when it went from a public company to a private one in 2007 and then sold to Verizon Wireless in 2009.
"I think it's rare for a CFO to be involved in as many transactions as Alltel was in such a short period of time," Gasaway said. "We had two $28 billion transactions within a two-year period of time."
After the sale of Alltel, Gasaway, along with other members of the executive management team, left the company. She took the opportunity to enjoy time with her family. "I have missed out on a lot of things with them," she said.
But she was pulled back into the business world in February 2009, when she was elected to J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc.'s board of directors. And recently she was named to the board...