Mark Vernacchia is a General Motors Technical Fellow and is the Principal Systems Safety Engineer for all propulsion systems at General Motors. Mark has extensive experience in systems engineering and systems safety processes and earned the ESEP (Expert Systems Engineering Professional) certification from INCOSE. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Michigan. Mark holds a Master’s Degree in Engineering Sciences from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Bachelor’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University.