Ronald A. Stroman was named the 20th Deputy Postmaster General (DPMG) in March 2011. As the second-highest ranking postal executive, he serves on the Postal Service Board of Governors and on Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe’s Executive Leadership Team.

As DPMG, Stroman works closely with the mailing industry to help strengthen relationships and identify opportunities to improve interactions with postal customers. Reporting to Stroman are the vice presidents of Government Relations, Corporate Communications, Consumer and Industry Affairs, and the Judicial Officer. He also has the lead role in working with Congress to restructure the prefunding of retiree health benefits, adjust delivery frequency, and gain greater flexibility in aligning the Postal Service processing, distribution and retail networks.

Stroman has more than 30 years of professional experience in government, legislative affairs and leadership before becoming DPMG. From 1978 to 1984, he was an attorney with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He then moved into a position as counsel on the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He also worked for the Committee on Government Operations and became a deputy minority staff director for the Government Reform and Oversight Committee.

In 1997, Stroman took a director’s position with the U.S. Department of Transportation. In 2001, he joined the General Accounting Office as managing director for the Office of Opportunity and Inclusiveness. He returned to the House in 2009, where he served as staff director, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform prior to joining the Postal Service.

Stroman earned his Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University Law Center.

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April 2011

Megan J. Brennan was named Chief Operating Officer and executive vice president in December 2010. Brennan leads all network and process improvements and the allocations of people and resources. She reports to the Postmaster General.

Brennan has responsibility for the day-to-day activities of 574,000 career employees working in more than 32,000 facilities supported by a fleet of nearly 216,000 vehicles. She is responsible for mail processing, transportation, field operations, delivery, retail, facilities and network operations. Reporting to Brennan are the vice presidents of Delivery and Post Office Operations, Facilities, Network Operations Management and the seven vice presidents of Area Operations.

Previously she was vice president of Eastern Area Operations. She was the senior postal official in an area that encompasses Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Delaware, Kentucky, Central and South Jersey, Western New York, and parts of Virginia and Indiana. Reporting to the deputy postmaster general and chief operating officer, she was responsible for postal operations, including processing and distribution, customer service and administrative operations.

A 24-year veteran of the Postal Service, Brennan served as vice president of Northeast Area Operations from May 2005 until being named vice president of Eastern Area Operations. Prior to that, she was manager of Operations Support for the Northeast Area beginning in 2003. In this capacity, she was responsible for coordinating and integrating processing and distribution, transportation and delivery operations throughout the Northeast Area.

Brennan joined the Postal Service in 1986 as a letter carrier in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and began her management career as a delivery and collection supervisor. She has in-depth experience in both line management and support positions, having worked at the district, area and headquarters levels. She served as district manager, Springfield, Massachusetts, and plant manager for the Lehigh Valley and Reading, Pennsylvania, processing and distribution facilities.

Brennan also held the headquarters position of manager of Field Support and Integration, where she worked directly for the Chief Operating Officer.

Brennan is a graduate of Immaculata College in Pennsylvania. She is a Sloan Fellow and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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February 2011

Ellis Burgoyne was named chief information officer and executive vice president in December 2010. Burgoyne oversees all systems and data management to help develop new products quickly and fully leverage the network to meet changing customer needs. He reports to the Postmaster General.

Previously Burgoyne was named vice president, Area Operations for the Southwest Area in September 2006. He was the senior postal official in an area that encompasses the five-state region of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico and Texas. He was responsible for all postal operations including mail processing and distribution, and customer service and administrative operations.

Earlier, Burgoyne served as vice president, Delivery and Retail since June 2005 where he was responsible for retail, delivery, and vehicle operations involving the nation's more than 37,000 Post Offices, stations, and branches, including retail service equipment and retail access channels.

Burgoyne also served as district manager of the Colorado/Wyoming District since 2003. Under his leadership, the Colorado/Wyoming performance cluster attained a National Performance Assessment (NPA) score of 11.28, the nation’s highest. The NPA is the Postal Service’s pay for performance system that rates achievements in key areas including service, safety, budget and revenue. Fifteen is the highest attainable NPA rating.

As district manager for the Colorado/Wyoming district and prior to that, as Richmond’s district manager, Burgoyne led both districts to new levels of performance and customer satisfaction. His achievements earned him the Chief Operating Officer's Award in 2004 and the Vice President's Awards in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

Burgoyne began his postal career in 1978 as a letter carrier in Inglewood, California. He has also served as Postmaster of Oakland, California; Mail Sectional Center finance director; manager, Customer Services in Southern California; senior financial analyst in the former Southern Region; Tennessee District finance manager; and finance manager for the former Mid-Atlantic Area.

He is a graduate of California State University, Los Angeles

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December 2010

Joseph Corbett was named chief financial officer and executive vice president of the United States Postal Service in February 2009 and reports directly to the Postmaster General. He heads the organization’s Strategy, Finance and Planning, Controller, Treasury, Accounting and Supply Management functions, is a member of its Executive Leadership Team and is chairman of its corporate Capital Investment Committee.

The Postal Service has annual revenues of over $65 billion and is an independent, commercially funded entity of the federal government.

Corbett has more than 25 years of finance, treasury and accounting experience. He is a certified public accountant and has extensive experience in strategy, financial planning and analysis, accounting, SEC and financial reporting and banking and capital market transactions. He began his career working for over a decade with Big Four accounting firm, KPMG, where he served as a senior member of their Commercial Practice Group serving publicly and privately held companies in the manufacturing, professional services and transportation industries.

Corbett also spent more than 10 years serving in senior management roles at three multibillion dollar commercial companies: controller, chief accounting officer and executive vice president and CFO at Intelsat, Ltd; CAO and CFO at BearingPoint, Inc.; and before these positions, chief of internal audit at NVR, Inc. At these companies, he led multiple efforts related to all aspects of accounting, financial planning and reporting, and treasury transactions including an initial and numerous other SEC-filed capital market transactions. Corbett’s success as a transformational leader in complex environments and accounting situations aligns with the financial needs unique to the Postal Service.

Corbett graduated with honors from George Washington University where he received his Bachelor’s degree in business administration and was later admitted to the GWU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998. Corbett is a member of the AICPA and Greater Washington Society of CPAs, has chaired Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and Retirement Plan committees and was previously a director on the boards of two private companies.

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September 2012

Mary Anne Gibbons was named vice president and general counsel for the U.S. Postal Service in January 1999, senior vice president in December 2003, and executive vice president in January 2011. In this role, Gibbons serves as counsel to the Board of Governors and is a member of the Executive Leadership Team, Investment Review, SOX, and Diversity Oversight Committees.

Gibbons is charged with helping the Postal Service in all aspects of its business including its Network Optimization plans, price setting, and other major business initiatives. Gibbons manages a complex legal department with branch offices in 15 major metropolitan areas nationwide.

Gibbons’ areas of responsibility and control range from government regulatory practice, torts, freedom of information, privacy, and employment law to postage rate cases, labor negotiations and work in legislative and international matters. In addition, the General Counsel’s office addresses legal issues involving intellectual property, consumer protection, revenue protection, the environment, contracts, facilities, purchasing and labor relations, as well as administrative and federal court litigation.

Earlier, Gibbons served as deputy general counsel; managing counsel, Civil Practice; managing counsel of the Postal Service’s Capitol Metro Law Office; and as a labor law attorney for the General Counsel.

Gibbons has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching U.S. legal discourse to foreign lawyers and also has been on the adjunct faculty of American University’s law school. Prior to joining the Postal Service, she served as an attorney and assistant general counsel at the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds and as an administrator at Millersville University in Millersville, Pennsylvania.

Gibbons is a 1980 graduate of the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law. She earned her Master of Arts degree at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mundelein College in Chicago.

She is an active member of the Home School Association of Sacred Heart Catholic School and of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, both in Washington, DC.

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February 2013

Nagisa Manabe was named Chief Marketing and Sales Officer, Executive Vice President in May 2012 and reports directly to the Postmaster General.

In this role, Manabe is responsible for all domestic and international products marketing, development and management. She also is responsible for the Postal Service Sales organization.

Prior to her current role, Manabe served as vice president of New Growth Platforms at the Coca Cola Company. Before that, she was the vice president of Marketing for Diageo Guinness USA, the beer and malt beverage division of Diageo, a leading worldwide spirits, wine and beer company.

Since beginning her career in 1991 at Procter & Gamble, Manabe has held a variety of key marketing and innovation leadership positions while working on the marketing and new product development for more than 30 brands at Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever Bestfoods North America, Campbell’s, Diageo and Coca Cola.

A graduate of Yale University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Economics and Japanese Studies, Manabe also has a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University.

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June 2012

Anthony J. (Tony) Vegliante was named chief human resources officer and executive vice president in May 2005. He reports to the Postmaster General. In this role, Mr. Vegliante oversees all aspects of Human Resources for the Postal Service’s 574,000 employees, including Labor Relations, Employee Development and Diversity, and Employee Resource Management. In addition, he manages the largest Human Resources Shared Services and Human Capital Enterprise System in operation.

Earlier, Vegliante served as vice president, Labor Relations and reported to the Deputy Postmaster General And Chief Operating Officer.

Vegliante has been involved in 20 national negotiations and has served as a chief spokesperson in six of them. He has successfully negotiated ten major contracts with the national unions, has been involved in six interest arbitration hearings and has been used as an expert witness and strategist. In 2000, Vegliante served as the Postal Service’s arbitrator in the rural carrier negotiations and was successful in gaining productivity provisions for the first time in interest arbitration. Generally regarded as one of the architects of the Postal Service’s highly successful Pay-for-Performance program for all non-bargaining employees that now serves as a model for all government agencies, Mr. Vegliante was successful in aligning individual performance with organizational goals through a more focused performance appraisal system that encourages superior effort.

Mr. Vegliante began his postal career in 1978 as a distribution clerk in New Haven, Connecticut. He quickly moved into Human Resources, assuming positions of increasing responsibility both in New Haven and at the Northeast Region prior to coming to Postal Service headquarters as an executive. He has served as district manager of the Baltimore performance cluster and was responsible for the day-to-day operations, including more than 12,000 employees. He was awarded a gold medal from the Maryland Center for Quality and Productivity Award competition for superior business performance.

A graduate of the University of Rhode Island in 1974, Vegliante earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and a Master of Science degree in business education from the University of Bridgeport in 1979. He received a second Master of Science degree in industrial relations in 1997 from the University of New Haven. He also has completed the Summer Executive Program at the University of Southern California. Mr. Vegliante is the recipient of the Board of Governor’s Award and the prestigious Wanamaker Award for Exceptional Performance.

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December 2010

Paul Vogel was named President, Digital Solutions in May 2012. In this role, he leads a group that has a broad mandate to extend the U.S. Postal Service’s current technology and data platform in ways that help better support the mailing industry and the American public.

Prior to his current role, Vogel served as President and Chief Marketing/Sales Officer (CMSO) since December of 2010. In this capacity, he was responsible for all domestic and international product development and management, including pricing, placement and promotion. He also was responsible for the Postal Service’s Sales organization.

The CMSO position was created when the Postal Service was restructured to be more competitive in the marketplace and more focused on customer service. Vogel was named to the job after serving as president, Mailing and Shipping Services, from August to December 2010, managing a division responsible for more than $65 billion in annual revenue. He had rejoined the Postal Service in August 2010, following a tenure of nearly two years where he gained private sector experience as a consultant focusing on international business and business strategies.

From 2006 to 2009, Vogel was the Postal Service’s managing director of Global Business and senior vice president. Previously he served as the vice president, Network Operations Management, a role that encompassed responsibility for the national network of 350 mail processing and distribution centers, as well as the worldwide transportation network that moves America’s mail.

Vogel began his Postal Service career in 1969 as a clerk/carrier in Boston, Massachusetts while working his way through college. He joined the Postal Service’s Management Associate Program in 1975 and later served in numerous management positions in operations and logistics both in the field and at postal headquarters.

Vogel earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Boston State College and a Master of Science degree in business management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan Fellows Program.

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May 2012