John Yoars comes highly recommended to STAR by S&B Engineers and Constructors Ltd., in Houston who have worked with John for the last 20 years on various projects in the U.S. petrochemicals industry. Mr. Yoars’ petrochemicals plant operating background combined with his get-the-job-done right work ethic makes a strong asset to STAR. He has 50 years of experience optimizing petrochemical product slate economics, plant management, operations and maintenance, new plant construction, and start-up & commissioning. His background is ideally suited for the STAR-USI Exclusive Condo-Cracker & Polyolefins Tolling Club Project which consists of an Ethane Cracker Plant for the manufacture of ethylene, and to convert approximately 1/3 of the ethylene to propylene, and then manufacture Polyolefins, i.e., Polypropylene and Polyethylene plastic pellets for U.S. domestic and Asia- Pacific markets. Mr. Yoars was Petrochemical Plant Manager (ethylene & styrene) for Westlake Chemical ($2.3 billion in revenues) and Project Manager / Startup Manager on a 1.0 Billion Pounds Per Year Ethane / Propane Cracker. Integral to this Westlake Project, he was Operations Start-up Manager on two 200 Kilo Tons Per Annum Linear Low Density Polyethylene Units. He managed a 700 Million Pounds Per Year Low Density Polyethylene operation. Acting as Senior Vice President of Olefins with business responsibilities, he led the effort to win National Petrochemical and Refinery Association’s Safety Awards. He also led the effort to combine two adjacent plant sites, optimize staffing, and institute a new Key Performance Metric process, as well as led the effort to establish an olefins and co-product sales. During this time at Westlake, he created the business strategy for the olefins business and managed natural gas and NGL purchasing for Westlake and led the effort for feedstock flexibility. Prior to Westlake, John Yoars was Site Manager Olefins Complex for the Lyondell Chemical Division of ARCO. Here he expanded two world-scale Ethylene Crackers and built a state of the art Butadiene extraction unit. Mr. Yoars was also Refinery Manager for Lyondell- CITGO a 250,000 barrel per day refinery in Houston, as well as Senior Vice President Operations for Texas Petrochemicals ($1.7 billion in revenues). John Yoars has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Indiana Institute of Technology.