Director
West Memphis native son Jack Poff Jr. is the first director of the ASBTDC at Arkansas State University Mid-South, which opened in April 2021.
Jack’s professional background is in real estate. He is a licensed broker and worked at First Delta Realty before joining Crye-Leike Realtors.
Having been a small business entrepreneur for most of his career, he brings a sense of “realistic understanding” to his ASBTDC role.
Since his return to West Memphis in 2014, Jack has been very involved in the community. He is the 2021 West Memphis Main Street president and was the 2020 West Memphis Chamber president. He is a graduate of the chamber’s 2015 Crittenden County Leadership class.
Poff chaired King Biscuit’s BBQ and Blues on the Levee in 2019 and served on other local committees such as GROW West Memphis 2040 and ASU Mid-South’s Left Bank Festival.
He has also been active in the Eastern Arkansas Realtors Association and is serving as Director-at-Large for the Arkansas Realtor Association and spearheading the Strategic Planning Committee of EARA.
Jack attended Hendrix College and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, earning his degree in political science from UA Little Rock. He and his wife Molly have two children.