Mr.
Stuart Sutliff
Vice President
United Parcel Service
“An essential element of our success and leadership as a global enterprise is our ability to keep technology investments aligned with business initiatives. Our CIM organization exemplifies the structure and processes UPS has instituted to ensure that this alignment occurs.”
As Vice President of Information Services, Stu Sutliff leads the Customer Information
Management (CIM) organization. CIM is responsible for the program management
of all enterprise-wide systems at UPS that “touch” the customer.
Key to CIM’s role is to tie business users with the information technology
(IT) organization, helping to ensure that IT stays aligned with the business
to best meet customer needs.
Sutliff’s involvement in IT governance extends to his active involvement in a number of committees. He is the chairman of the Information Access and Security Governance Committee and is a member of the Information Technology Governance Committee. Sutliff functions as the IT representative to the company’s Corporate Compliance Committee and serves on the Information and Technology Strategy Committee.
Sutliff began his UPS career in 1973 as a night cashier. In 1975, he was promoted
to part-time preload supervisor and continued with other positions of increasing
responsibility in accounting. In 1981, Sutliff was named Systems Manager in
the accounting function in the North Illinois district. Two years later, he
joined the Metro Chicago district accounting group and was named the Utah District
Controller in 1985.
Sutliff worked in several UPS corporate finance and accounting management positions
before moving into Information Services full-time in 1993.
Sutliff received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Indiana University
and a master’s degree in project management from the Keller Graduate School
of Management. He is a member of the School of Information Technology Advisory
Board at Georgia Southern University and is the UPS liaison to the Department
of Computer Information Services Affiliates Program at Georgia State University.
Last updated: 2007.04.20