Mark Galyean is a management and general business consultant with a passion for helping small and medium-sized businesses prosper by improving processes, arranging financing, increasing sales and customer satisfaction, diversifying products and services, and exploring new markets.

For almost three decades Mark progressed to partner, national sales manager and operations manager of a southwest Louisiana-based, nationally recognized, super-graphics and display printing company with over 130 employees. He then served as a department manager with Louisiana Economic Development. Next Mark joined the Louisiana Small Business Center (LSBDC) at UL Lafayette, beginning his tenure there as Assistant Director/Business Advisor/Training Coordinator then progressed to LSBDC Service Center Director. He then moved to the Shreveport/Bossier City area to take a Regional Director position with the Louisiana SBDC network. Following his retirement from state service in 2016, he founded Mark Galyean & Associates, LLC, a business consultancy.

Mark is a veteran, having served with distinction as a member of the Louisiana Air National Guard, 159th Fighter Group.

A graduate of Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport, and a native of south Louisiana, Mark now calls the woodland hills of northwest Louisiana his permanent home.