Michael L. Eskew
UPS
Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer
Mike
Eskew serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for UPS. He was Vice
Chairman and Executive Vice President prior to assuming his current position on
January 1, 2002.
A native of Vincennes, Indiana, Eskew graduated from Purdue University with a
degree in Industrial Engineering. He also completed the Advanced Management
Program at the Wharton School of Business. Eskew began his UPS career in 1972
in the Indiana District Industrial Engineering department.
In 1994, Eskew was named Corporate Vice President for Industrial Engineering.
Two years later he became Group Vice President for Engineering. Eskew has
served as a member of the UPS Board of Directors since 1998. In 1999, he was
named Executive Vice President and a year later was given the additional title
of Vice Chairman.
In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Eskew is a trustee of the UPS
Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which is the country’s largest
foundation dedicated to disadvantaged youth. He also serves on the Engineering
Visiting Committee of Purdue University, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board and
the National Advisory Committee for the College of Engineering at the
University of Michigan.
UPS
Founded in 1907 as a
messenger company in the United States, UPS is now the world’s largest package
delivery company and a leading provider of specialized transportation,
logistics, capital and e-commerce services. As a global company with one of the
most recognized and admired brands in the world, every day UPS manages the flow
of goods, funds, and information in more than 200 countries and territories
worldwide.
The company employs
371,000 people worldwide and had revenues of $30.6 billion in 2001. UPS
Airlines is the 9th largest in North America and the 11th
largest in the world.
Today UPS Chain
Solutions is comprised of UPS subsidiaries whose operating companies deliver
end-to-end supply chain solutions for customers. The organization provides
logistics, freight, financial, consulting and mail services to enhance
customers’ business performance and UPS’s growth. Headquartered in Atlanta,
Georgia, UPS’s stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (UPS).