Senior Accenture executive appointed strategy director of Exel group

Senior Accenture executive appointed strategy director of Exel group    Exel, the fast-growing U.K.-based logistics service provider, has appointed Jon Bumstead, former Accenture partner responsible for the European logistics practice, as its group strategy director.
   Bumstead joins Exel after 13 years of experience in supply chain management with Accenture, where he worked for clients in the retail and consumer goods sectors such as Marks & Spencer, Wal-Mart, Shell U.K., Abbott International, Guinness, BOC Group and Ford.
   He also helped to create the fourth party logistics (4PL) phenomenon of the mid 1990s, Exel said.