Marlin Lester

Marlin Lester has more than 30 years of experience in construction maintenance and integrity management services required to maintain material assets in the Oil and Gas, Infrastructure and Defense, Aerospace and Power Generation Markets. In the past ten years he has been instrumental in leading companies to exponential growth and acquisition. In September of 2008 Mr. Lester joined RBG USA, Inc. as Vice President of Operations on a new start-up division in Lafayette, Louisiana. In less than 3 years revenues eclipsed $30 million leading to the acquisition by Stork Technical Services in May of 2011. Major contract awards included BP, BHP Billiton, Shell, Chevron, Murphy, and ENI. In June of 2011 Mr. Lester joined The NACHER Corporation as Vice President. From 2011-2013, he led the company to achieve 118% growth. After being promoted to Executive Vice President, he led NACHER to 100% growth in the 2014 fiscal year before MISTRAS Group acquired the company. Major contract awards included BP and Shell, along with Noble Energy and BHP Billiton. He remained with MISTRAS Group as Executive Vice President and Global COE Manager for the next five years. In December of 2019 Mr. Lester joined Corrosion Prevention Technologies as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. In his tenure he has been instrumental in the merger of multiple entities to form Corrosion Innovations LLC where he will serve as President and Chief Executive Officer.