Business Speaker and Motivational Speaker
Business Speaker, Motivational Speaker and Formula One Expert
Mark Gallagher – Business Speaker, Motivational Speaker and Formula One Expert
Mark Gallagher has worked in Formula One™ for 25 years and is a business speaker and motivational speaker on the most important lessons to be learned from this most demanding of sports.
In 2009 Mark was appointed Head of Cosworth’s Formula 1 Business Unit.
Mark Gallagher was also Managing Director and Team Principal of A1 Team Ireland which competed in the A1 Grand Prix series. Under Mark’s leadership, the Irish A1 Team won the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport in 2009
In 2005 he established his own consulting business, now working with current F1™ drivers and sponsors. He also owns and runs Status Grand Prix which competes in the A1GP™ series and led the 2008/09 World Cup of Motorsport™ after grand prix victories in China, Malaysia and New Zealand.
Formula One correspondent for media including London’s Sunday Express newspaper, BBC and Independent Radio News, Mark became a press consultant for top Formula One sponsors including Marlboro and Canon before beginning his career in team management. Commercial Manager for the Pacific F1 team in 1994-95 he then rejoined Jordan Grand Prix, where he previously worked in 1991, remaining for 10 years during which he became Director of Marketing & Communications and was part of the senior management board during the team’s most successful years.
In 2004 he joined Jaguar Racing and worked through it rebirth as Red Bull Racing before setting up his own sports management company and racing team. In 2006 he consulted for Disney Pixar, coordinating the European launch activities for CARS The Movie at the Spanish Grand Prix, the same year in which his team successfully competed in the world famous Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time. He is now the Formula One industry expert on Sky News and Sky Sports News in Europe, commenting on every aspect of F1.
Mark has personally worked with some of the greatest drivers in Formula One including Michael and Ralf Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Damon Hill, Nigel Mansell, David Coulthard and Jenson Button, while experiences gained working at the forefront of Formula One team management give him a unique insight into the challenge of competing in this global sport; experiences he can pass on by acting as a business speaker and as a motivational speaker.
“Formula One teams operate in the most demanding environment imaginable,” says Mark, “not only having to design, manufacture and operate a new and highly sophisticated Formula One car each season, but doing so against a backdrop of ever-changing regulation, legislation and challenging economic times. Business decisions made many months or years beforehand are just as important as split second reactions on the track. Managing the technical, financial and operational requirements of a Formula One team requires unique skill, while keeping a team of several hundred people topped by two drivers fully focussed on team goals is a relentless task.”