UPS senior VP global transportation to retire

ATLANTA, Ga. UPS has announced the retirement of Chris Mahoney, senior vice president of global transportation and a member of the company’s Management Committee.

Replacing Mahoney will be John McDevitt, who is currently senior vice president of strategic integration and also a member of the UPS Management Committee.

In his new position, McDevitt, 46, will oversee UPS’s global intermodal transportation network, which includes the world’s 11th largest airline, a surface delivery fleet of more than 150,000 vehicles and rail and other distribution services, says UPS. He also will be responsible for labor relations.

Mahoney, 57, is retiring after a 37-year career that began in 1968 when he joined UPS as a part-time package handler while attending Stonehill College. He subsequently received an MBA in finance from Suffolk University. Prior to becoming a member of the UPS Management Committee in 1998, Mahoney held positions of increasing responsibility in operations, engineering and human resources. In the early 1990s, he served as president of UPS Canada, where he directed the nationwide expansion of that business.

McDevitt was named senior vice president of strategic integration in March 2003. In that role, he was responsible for helping the company’s continuing evolution as a supply chain company by coordinating special projects to speed UPS’s organizational integration.