The question isn’t so much, “Is Brent Birch an influencer?” The question is more, “Just what doesn’t he influence?” Under the guidance of Birch and the LRTP board authority, the tech park has remained viable through COVID-19 and continues its planned four-phase, multimillion-dollar development. Prior to joining the effort to bolster the Central Arkansas tech startup community, Birch was an executive for Arkansas Business Publishing Group, where in 2010 he launched Greenhead: The Arkansas Duck Hunting Magazine. An avid waterfowler, he also wrote and published 2018’s The Grand Prairie: A History of Duck Hunting’s Hallowed Ground.
Birch sits on the board of the Arkansas Game & Fish Foundation and in 2016 founded the Arkansas Waterfowler Hall of Fame. Birch is active in Ducks Unlimited and Delta Waterfowl. A licensed real estate agent, Birch also chairs the Downtown Little Rock Partnership and is a former chairman of the Little Rock Open, part of the professional men’s tennis ATP Challenger Tour. Plus, he’s a five-time USTA league tennis state champion. From 1990 to 1993, the North Little Rock native pitched for the Arkansas Razorbacks, earning four letters and helping lead the Diamond Hogs to a Southwest Conference championship and NCAA tournament appearance in 1990.
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