Mark Rushbrook, Global Director, Ford Performance, has joined the impressive lineup of featured speakers for the 5th Annual Race Industry Week, taking place Monday through Thursday, Dec. 2–5.
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Rushbrook joined Ford Performance in 2014 as an engineering manager and became global director in December 2017. He oversees all of Ford’s racing initiatives globally in NASCAR with Mustang and F-150, Ford’s return to F-1 with Oracle Red Bull Racing, Dakar, IMSA with Mustang GT3, WEC with Mustang GT3, SRO with Mustang GT3 and GT4, NHRA with Mustang Funny Car, SCORE with Bronco and F-150, Ultra4 with Bronco, Formula Drift with Mustang, World of Outlaws, WRC with Puma Rally1, Repco Supercars Championship with Mustang and more.
He earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Penn State University in 1989 and got his mechanical engineering Master’s degree a year later at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He eventually gained his MBA from Michigan in 1999 and started at Ford in June of that year in the product development leadership program.
Rushbrook came to Ford Performance after spending nearly fourteen years in leadership positions within Ford’s product development organization. The leadership program included assignments in vehicle engineering, program management, chassis engineering, and plant manufacturing that provided a thorough understanding of the product development process and deep technical resources inside Ford. Rushbrook played a major role in the history of Mustang as vehicle development manager from 2002-04 to deliver all engineering attributes on the 2005 iconic Mustang. He then had a five-year run (2005-’10) as the North America vehicle dynamics manager, working on every major product in the company portfolio, followed by two years (2011-’12) as the Lincoln MKC vehicle engineering manager. For 2013 Rushbrook was the Noise and Vibration Harshness Manager for all North America programs.
This experience within the Ford engineering and program management organizations allows Rushbrook to fully leverage the resources of Ford Motor Company to ensure success of Ford Performance on track, and to then share relevant innovation and technical learning back to the road car programs to make Ford’s road legal cars even better.
Rushbrook is married and has one son.