Mark has been with Burk Royalty since 2013 and as Vice President of Land is responsible for the land department. Mark has a Bachelor of Science degree from Southwestern University, a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Midwestern State University and is a Certified Professional Landman. Before joining Burk, Mark was the Land Manager for a private equity natural gas company in Tyler, Texas, and worked as a contract landman before that for several of the majors in East Texas.

Mark is a member of the AAPL, ETAPL, and NTAPL, serves as an adjunct professor at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls and is an elder at Fairway Baptist Church. He is married to Sheila and they have two sons, Eli and Josiah.