Mark Blankenship, Ph.D.

Mark Blankenship is the Executive Vice President and Chief People, Culture, and Corporate Strategy Officer at Jack in the Box, Inc. He has been with the Jack in the Box, Inc. for almost 20 years, and is currently a Board Member for the Jack in the Box Foundation.

Blankenship is a graduate of California State University, Sacramento, and earned a Master’s degree and Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, where he spent 12 years teaching as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Adjunct Faculty. With over 20 years of experience in the human resources field, his work has been published in numerous human resources publications. His professional affiliations include Human Resource People & Strategy, the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and Measurement, Education and Statistics.