Former BellSouth boss Ackerman joins UPS board

Former BellSouth boss Ackerman joins UPS board UPS Wednesday appointed F. Duane Ackerman, former BellSouth chairman and chief executive officer, to its board of directors and named him on its compensation committee.
   Ackerman, 65, will serve on the board until the next UPS annual shareowners’ meeting in May 2008, at which time he is expected to stand for election to a regular one-year term.
   Ackerman spent more than 40 years in the telecommunications industry before retiring in March following BellSouth’s merger with AT&T. He is also a member of the board of directors of The Allstate Corp. and serves on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He is a trustee of Rollins College and has served on the Board of Governors of the Society of Sloan Fellows of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.