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Abney<\/EM><\/P> Delta State University\u2019s College of Business will present its annual lecture series, Thursday, Oct. 27 at 11 a.m. inside the State Room of the H.L. Nowell Union Building on campus.<\/P> With \u201cCelebrating Academic Excellence\u201d serving as this year\u2019s message, the College of Business will welcome David Abney, President of UPS International and 1976 Delta State alumnus, for the keynote address.<\/P> As President of UPS International, Abney is charged with the strategic development and management of UPS\u2019s international package division. As part of UPS\u2019s Management Committee, Abney is also responsible for overseeing UPS\u2019s international package services within the United States.<\/P> A native of Greenwood, Abney received his bachelor\u2019s degree in business administration. It was while at Delta State, he began his career with UPS, as a part-time employee loading and unloading packages in 1974. <\/P> Since that time, Abney has held various positions throughout his UPS career, including division manager in New Jersey and district manager in Utah. He also served as president of SonicAir\u00ae, UPS\u2019s same-day delivery service. While president of SonicAir, Abney was honored with the Professionalism in Services\/Support Management Award by the International Association of Services Management for demonstrating exemplary managerial characteristics. \u201cObtaining my degree from Delta State was like crossing the continental divide. I was the first in my family to graduate from a university,\u201d Abney offered. \u201cMy education at Delta State certainly helped prepare me for the \u2018real world\u2019 of business. It has been 29 years since I left Delta State, and as I now travel throughout the world, I proudly refer to Delta State wherever I go.\u201d<\/P> The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the College of Business at (662) 846-4200.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AbneyDelta State University\u2019s College of Business will present its annual lecture series, Thursday, Oct. 27 at 11 a.m. inside the State Room of the H.L. Nowell Union Building on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40529,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/40529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Prior to taking the helm of UPS\u2019s top international post, Abney led UPS\u2019s logistical and freight operations in Canada, Latin America and the United States. He later headed up the global operations of UPS\u2019s freight forwarding and customs brokerage operations. During his tenure, Abney oversaw UPS\u2019s largest acquisition in recent history – the Fritz Companies. <\/P>