UPS has appointed a new chief for its US package operations and named two experienced executives tohead its expanding freight forwarding and logistics businesses.
Myron Gray, currently the head of UPS’s regional operations in Canada and all of LatinAmerica, has been named as the new senior vice president of US package operations. He will succeedJim Winestock who will retire in February after four years in the post.
In his new position, the 51-year-old Gray will join UPS’s Management Committee, comprised ofthe company’s 12 most senior executives. Gray joined UPS in 1978 as a part-time package handler andhas worked his way up through the US organisation with a series of managerial responsibilities. Hetook command of UPS’s Americas Region in January 2008.
“Jim Winestock leaves a tremendous legacy of leadership and service excellence to ourcompany,” said UPS Chairman and CEO Scott Davis. “Myron has decades of experience in the packageoperation, but also has worked in industrial engineering and business development in addition tohis international experience heading the Americas Region.”
Meanwhile, Ken Torok, most recently head of the company’s Asia-Pacific region from 2003 tomid-2008, has been named president of global freight forwarding operations. In his new capacity,Torok, 55, will direct the UPS global organisation responsible for strategy, performance andrevenue growth for forwarding services. He will oversee commercial air and ocean carrierrelationships as well as coordinate trade lane development and international freight sales.
“Ken brings a wide range of knowledge and experience to the job,” said Dan Brutto, presidentof UPS International. “During his 33 years with UPS, Ken successfully directed many UPSoperations outside the United States, developing important relationships in the process that willserve us well in his new capacity.”
Torok spent several years in Europe where he held various managerial posts and played a keyrole in the integration of the company’s ground and air operations in Europe, Middle East andAfrica. In 2003, he was named president of UPS Asia Pacific, where he oversaw all of UPS’soperations in that region.
In a third senior appointment, Brad Mitchell has been named president of UPS Global Logisticsand Distribution. He was formerly operations manager for the business and joined UPS in 2000 whenit acquired Canadian healthcare logistics company Livingston, Inc.
In his new role, Mitchell directs distribution services and post-sales services worldwide,including warehousing, order fulfilment and delivery and returns processing for mission criticalparts. He also leads UPS Mail Innovations, offering customers postal services through the USPS workshare programme.
Mitchell’s primary focus is to provide service part logistics for aerospace and high techindustries as well as for the medical devices sector of the healthcare industry. These servicesinclude asset recovery, recycling management, field tech support, returns and repair management tocustomers, large and small, around the world.
“The post-sales supply chain is becoming increasingly important in today’s complexmarketplace and UPS is a leader in the space,” Mitchell said. “We have the specialised experience,dedicated management team, global capabilities and systems needed to help our customers improve theperformance and efficiency of their post-sales supply chains and turn them into a competitiveadvantage.”
