Name: Mark Barnes
DOB: 12.2.61
Mark Barnes is the CEO of Salu International, the paradigm-shifting network marketing company that’s taking the industry by storm. A natural leader with the right stuff, confident, determined, adventurous, charismatic – Barnes thrives on transforming challenges into opportunities.
In addition to being one of the founders of Salu, since 1994 Barnes has been managing the air traffic control center serving Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world’s busiest airport -- a job that requires the utmost in terms of multi-tasking intelligence, laser-sharp focus and personal responsibility.
These qualities and more are what makes Barnes the perfect choice for heading up operations at Salu. Technical expertise, coolness under pressure and visionary leadership -- are support the company’s commitment to developing innovative, cutting-edge products for healthy living based on natural compounds, such as trans resveratrol, that represent the latest advancements in scientific research.
The limits of science aren’t the only boundaries being stretched by Salu International.
“We have an exclusive, unprecedented compensation company that has, essentially, reinvented the wheel in the industry,” Barnes said.
Salu’s unique compensation plan includes the industry’s first ever GUARANTEED INCOME PROMISE.
From his earliest years as an electronics whiz kid in Jackson, Mississippi, to his appointment as one of the youngest air traffic controllers at a major U.S. airtport (Dallas-Ft. Worth), to the soft launching of Salu earlier in 2010, Barnes record of non-stop accomplishments has consistently exceeded expectations.
“At Salu, we aren’t following the system; we’re going to change the way the system works.”
Brief bio: Growing up in Meridian, Mississippi, Salu International CEO Mark Barnes was one of those electronics whiz kids. At age 8, he built an AM radio from scratch. While studying engineering at Mississippi State, he also DJed at a local FM radio station, worked as a professional photographer and flipped pies at Pizza Hut.
In 1984, Barnes completed the Federal Aviation Academy air traffic controller program in four months and was immediately assigned to the Dallas-Ft. Worth airport (a process that normally takes years). Since 1994, he has been managing the air traffic control center serving Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world’s busiest airport.
Barnes brings serious technical expertise, coolness under pressure and visionary leadership to his position -- qualities that support Salu International’s commitment to innovative product development, structural soundness and long-term stability.
Multi-tasking and managing complex situations, motivating and managing professionals in a high-stress environment, making split second decisions that affect thousands of lives every second of the day – those are the qualities Barnes brings to the Salu International management team.
Barnes sees Salu as “a personal wellness company, a work at home business with an incredible compensation plan, and a family-oriented, word of mouth, relationship-building company.”
A commercially licensed pilot, Barnes loves travelling with his wife and two daughters. The family has been to Europe and Asia and to Hawaii “about 30 times.” On weekends, sometimes Barnes will fly the family to the beach from their home in Fayetteville, Georgia.
