Mark Wallace Appointed Engineering Senior Vice President, Mitch Nichols Announces Retirement
12 Mai 2015 - 7:30PM
UPS ® (NYSE:UPS) today announced Mark Wallace, age 52, is appointed
senior vice president of engineering, replacing Mitch Nichols, age
59, who has elected to retire after 28 years with the
company. In his new assignment, Wallace will lead the
company's global engineering and sustainability activities.
Wallace joins the UPS Management Committee, a group of the most
senior executives responsible for day-to-day management of the
company.
"Mark is an innovative engineering leader who benefits from
extensive experience in several operations and engineering roles
across the UPS network," said David Abney, UPS chief executive
officer. "He has an excellent track record for delivering
solid results under challenging circumstances. We look
forward to Mark's added contributions in this role."
"Mitch deserves great recognition for his leadership and
contributions to UPS," Abney continued. "Most notably, for
more than 10 years, he served at UPS's airline, developing our
capability to meet customers' needs for speed and global
connectivity. I thank Mitch for his many contributions and
congratulate him on his retirement."
Mark Wallace biography
Wallace was previously president of UPS Supply Chain
Solutions. In this role he led the company's global contract
logistics operations which serve customers in numerous industry
segments with optimized supply chain planning, light assembly,
warehousing and distribution services.
Before taking over UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Wallace served as
vice president for Industrial Engineering, since 2012. His
broad responsibilities included oversight of industrial engineering
for capacity planning, package and hub operations, methods and work
measurement, technology support and daily network and contingency
planning. Prior to this position, he directed all international
industrial engineering to support UPS's non-U.S. operations and
network planning.
Wallace began his UPS career in 1986 as an engineering
specialist and was assigned as a driver in Arizona. He has advanced
through various engineering and operations leadership positions in
the West, Southwest and North Central parts of the U.S., including
planning and IE coordination for UPS's largest ground processing
hub outside Chicago and nationwide deployment of new technology
systems for dispatch planning and pre-load simplification.
A Minnesota native, Wallace holds a bachelor's degree in
industrial engineering from Arizona State University, in Tempe,
Arizona.
Mitch Nichols biography
Before his current assignment as senior vice president of
engineering and transportation, Nichols served as president of UPS
Airlines, where he oversaw the operation of UPS Airlines including
Worldport, the company's state-of-the-art package processing
facility and all-points international hub in Louisville,
Kentucky. Under his leadership, UPS Airlines was named Cargo
Airline of the Year in 2009 by Air Transport World. Nichols
also served in a variety of assignments in Information Services,
Strategic Operations Planning, Quality Assurance and package, and
UPS's hub-and-feeder operations. A native of Castro Valley,
Calif., he joined UPS in 1987 when the company acquired II Morrow
Inc., a communications and navigation technology company.
He previously taught at Oregon State University's School of
Engineering and worked in the private sector in manufacturing
engineering.
Nichols holds a bachelor's degree in industrial arts from
California State University, Chico, and a master's degree in
industrial education from Oregon State
University.
About UPS
UPS (NYSE:UPS) is a global leader in logistics, offering a broad
range of solutions including the transportation of packages and
freight; the facilitation of international trade, and the
deployment of advanced technology to more efficiently manage the
world of business. Headquartered in Atlanta, UPS serves more
than 220 countries and territories worldwide. The company can
be found on the Web at UPS.com and its corporate blog can be found
at blog.ups.com. To get UPS news direct, visit
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