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Secretary
Mark Payette
Bakersfield, California
Current term expires: 2024
Secretary
Mark Payette
Bakersfield, California
Current term expires: 2024
Secretary
Mark Payette
Bakersfield, California
Current term expires: 2022
Mark Payette brings more than 20 years of business and accounting expertise to the WorldMark Board of Directors. Over his professional career, he has overseen large financial and accounting operations across a broad range of industries — from manufacturing to agriculture, to health and fitness as well as entertainment. This experience has enabled him to gain significant proficiency in budgetary practices, real-estate law, trademark and patent issues, and developing successful company strategies alongside various boards of directors.
Currently, Mark serves as chief financial officer at Bakersfield Renewable Fuels, a subsidiary of Global Clean Energy Holdings (GCEH), where he is helping to re-tool a well-known Bakersfield refinery into a state-of-the-art green, renewable diesel facility. Before this role, Mark was the chief financial officer for AC Farms, a company that grows, packs, and sells a multitude of different food commodities grown in permanent crops such as blueberries, citrus fruit, table grapes, Sumo Citrus, and almonds. Prior to that, Mark served as chief financial officer for Pacific World Cosmetics, a beauty cosmetics and nail care company with manufacturing operations in the U.S., Mexico, China, and the Czech Republic. Mark’s previous professional experience also includes being the chief financial officer/chief accounting officer at Grapeman Farms, one of the largest table-grape growers in the world with operations in the U.S., Mexico, Peru, and Chile. In these positions, Mark was responsible for operating businesses with over $100-150 million in revenues and operating budgets of $125 million and $140 million respectively.
Early in his career, Mark worked in entertainment and internet companies such as MySpace Inc., where he was director of accounting, Beachbody as director of accounting, as well as Geffen Music as associate director of planning.
Mark earned a Bachelor of Science in accounting from the University of Southern California. He is a member and treasurer of the board of directors for Kern Athletic Fencing Foundation.
A current resident of Bakersfield, California, Mark frequently volunteers within his local community and in Watts, California. Mark enjoys vacationing with his family and playing a variety of sports including Muay Thai, fencing, and whitewater rafting. He is fluent in French and is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada.
A WorldMark owner since 2008, Mark joined the WorldMark Board of Directors in 2020.
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