Mark Luyster is Vice President of Technology Development for TBC-Brinadd, LLC a Texas United Company located in Houston.  He worked for Chevron Production Co. for 13 years with a focus on drilling fluids for reservoirs, acidizing, and workovers before assuming project and lab manager positions with MI-SWACO (now a Schlumberger company).  During this period, he worked in China, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, East Canada, South America, Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico.  He served as Global Technical Service Manager for their completions segment for the last six years before assuming his position with TBC-Brinadd in 2014.  Mr. Luyster is listed as the inventor/co-inventor for 11 U.S. patents and currently has 21 applications pending. These technologies involve breakers, fluid treatments, viscosified agents, chelates, invert emulsions and delay mechanisms.  He holds a B.S. in Geology from the University of Akron.