Executive Snapshot

Who: Michael Eskew, chairman and chief executive officer of United Parcel Service.

Education: Earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University and completed an advanced management program at Wharton School of Business.

What you may not know: If Eskew hadn’t signed on as an industrial engineer at UPS in 1972, he would have pursued architecture.

Personal: Eskew lives in Atlanta with his wife. They have four children.