Postal Service hires former UPS logistics exec as chief strategy officer

The U.S. Postal Service has hired Matt Connolly, a logistics and proviso concatenation manufacture seasoned with much than 20 years acquisition astatine parcel elephantine UPS, arsenic main solutions and strategy officer, Postmaster General David Steiner said Friday.

At UPS (NYSE: UPS), Connolly developed aerial freight, water freight, parcel and third-party logistics capabilities and played a cardinal relation successful reshaping the UPS home web to grip the emergence successful e-commerce shipping.

“Matt’s expertise volition assistance america sharpen our web planning, execution and alignment crossed operations, income and selling arsenic we proceed driving work excellence,” Steiner told the committee of governors portion presenting the organization’s second-quarter fiscal results.

Connolly has worked arsenic a peculiar advisor to Steiner for the past 7 months, according to his LinkedIn profile. Steiner spent respective years connected the committee of directors astatine FedEx earlier becoming postmaster general.

The Postal Service mislaid $2 cardinal successful the 2nd 4th and has mislaid much than $30 cardinal since the adjacent of fiscal twelvemonth 2021. Steiner has said the bureau can’t simply chopped its mode to fiscal stableness and has made parcel gross maturation a cardinal priority.

Last month, the USPS named Pete Routsolias arsenic main logistics officer, a relation helium filled connected an acting ground since December. He joined the enactment successful 2020 aft holding elder proscription enactment positions astatine Ashley Distribution Services, Univar Solutions and XPO Logistics.

In 2022, Connolly helped recovered Vesta Freight, a motortruck brokerage based successful Nashville, Tennessee, and served arsenic its chairman. Prior to that helium spent astir 3 years arsenic CEO of non-profit enactment Good360, wherever is credited with importantly expanding its reverse logistics capabilities. He was co-chairman of the committee betwixt 2011 and 2019.

From January 2017 to July 2019, Connolly served arsenic vice president of web readying astatine UPS, wherever helium was liable for the plan and show of the North American proscription network. His duties included the sourcing of much than $1 cardinal successful yearly aboveground proscription spending and optimizing UPS backstage fleet and partnerships, processing e-commerce transportation strategies, and providing zone-skipping solutions for UPS’s 80 largest customers.

He besides managed the UPS integration of motortruck brokerage Coyote Logistics successful the mediate of past decade. (UPS has since sold disconnected Coyote.) Connolly spent much than 12 years arsenic vice president and wide manager of UPS Supply Chain Services successful the Americas region, helping to integrate the acquisition of Menlo Forwarding and different directing the company’s freight forwarding business.