Arkansas Economic Acceleration Foundation Executive Director Kerri Daniels today announced that Curtis Arnold, consumer credit issues authority and author, is the latest edition to the ever-expanding AEAF Board of Directors. “Curtis brings a passion for entrepreneurship to the table that makes it easy for him to relate to the AEAF’s mission,” Daniels said. “He also carries a deep sense of community, and adds another dimension to an already dynamic group. We’re proud to have him on board.”

In 1999, Arnold founded the for-profit consumer organization U.S. Citizens for Fair Credit Card Terms, Inc., which hosts the consumer information site CardRatings.com. He published How You Can Profit from Credit Cards: Using Credit to Improve Your Financial Life and Bottom Line in June 2008, and is co-authoring a book on person-to-person lending which will become part of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to series.

Arnold is the Executive Director and Founder of the Bill and Sharon Arnold Family Foundation, contributes to FiLife.com, a financial advice site affiliated with The Wall Street Journal, and was named by Arkansas Business in 2005 as a Top 40 Under 40 business leader. He graduated from Ouachita Baptist University in 1992 and pursued graduate studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.

AEAF is an affiliated organization of the Arkansas Capital Corporation which was founded in 1957, and is a privately owned, non-profit business development corporation. Today, ACC continues to serve as an alternative source of funding for small businesses in Arkansas, as well as a lender in entrepreneurial education, tax-credits and in the state’s efforts to expand and improve broadband connectivity and access.