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Honeywell Names 34-Year Honeywell Veteran Vimal Kapur To Succeed Darius Adamczyk As CEO On June 1, 2023; Kapur Elected To Company's Board Of Directors; Adamczyk To Serve As Executive Chairman
-- Kapur's Track Record and Operational Expertise Positions Honeywell for the Next Level of Outperformance Versus Peers -- Under Adamczyk's Leadership,
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[{"type":"text","content":"-- Kapur's Track Record and Operational Expertise Positions Honeywell for the Next Level of Outperformance Versus Peers\n-- Under Adamczyk's Leadership, Honeywell Continued to Outperform Market and Peers, Growing Market Capitalization from $88 Billion in 2016 to $145 Billion in 2022, a 9% CAGR\n-- Thoughtful Succession Plan Positions Honeywell for Seamless Leadership Transition\nCHARLOTTE, N.C., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) today announced that Vimal Kapur, President and Chief Operating Officer, will succeed Darius Adamczyk as Chief Executive Officer on June 1, 2023. Adamczyk, who became Chief Operating Officer in 2016, Chief Executive Officer in 2017 and Chairman in 2018, will continue to serve as Executive Chairman of Honeywell. Kapur was also appointed to the company's board of directors effective March 13, 2023. These moves ensure a seamless leadership transition and position Honeywell for continued outperformance versus peers.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"Vimal is absolutely the right person to lead our company to the next level of growth and stellar performance,\" Adamczyk said. \"Vimal brings 34 years of deep knowledge about our businesses, end markets and customer needs. His ability to drive our key sustainability and digitalization strategic initiatives, along with his advancement of our world class operating system – Honeywell Accelerator – throughout the organization, gives him an outstanding platform to drive continued outperformance for our shareowners. Honeywell's next operational evolution, under Vimal's leadership, will be the incorporation of Accelerator and standardization of global business models to enable maximal performance in each business segment.\"\n\"Vimal is also uniquely capable to drive Honeywell's sustainable innovation and solidify our position to lead in the energy transition. Now more than ever, our customers need our solutions to help their businesses be more efficient and more sustainable, and under Vimal's leadership, Honeywell's sustainability technologies will help our customers achieve their goals, today and into the future.\"\n\"In his role as COO, Vimal has driven continued operational execution on our proven value creation framework, all of which is underpinned by Accelerator. We have also made significant strides in advancing our digital solutions – both to enha...