Yesterday in Dearborn, Ford CTO Raj Nair announced the Ford Performance brand

Ford Performance will encompass SVT-developed vehicles like the GT350 Mustang and Team RS-developed vehicles like the upcoming Focus RS. Best of all, Nair announced that henceforth Dave Pericak will be the global director of Ford Performance. I can't think of a better choice within Ford to lead all of the company's performance vehicle efforts. Since 2008, Dave has been chief engineer for the Mustang and led the development of the all-new model that just launched. With a team that includes Jamal Hameedi and Kerry Baldori at SVT, Ford Performance should produce some exciting stuff in the coming years. 

During my time at Ford, I was fortunate to spend a lot of time with Pericak and I got to write a profile last year when the new Mustang was revealed. 
https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/asset.download.document.pdf.html/content/dam/fordmedia/North%20America/US/2013/12/05/DPericak.pdf?