Vimal Kapur
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
2023 – Present
3 years (current)
Key Decisions & Impact
Kapur, born in India in 1965, joined a Honeywell joint venture in 1989 as an electronics engineer and rose entirely through internal roles over more than three decades -- Managing Director of Honeywell Automation India (2006), VP of Global Marketing and Strategy for Honeywell Process Solutions (2010), President of Honeywell Process Solutions (2014-2018, through the oil-and-gas downturn), President and CEO of Honeywell Building Technologies (2018), President and CEO of Honeywell Performance Materials & Technologies (2021), and President and COO of Honeywell (July 2022) before becoming CEO on June 1, 2023, succeeding Darius Adamczyk. In February 2025 he announced the plan to split Honeywell into three independent public companies: Aerospace, Solstice Advanced Materials, and automation-focused Honeywell Technologies.
Legacy
Kapur is notable among major American industrial CEOs for reaching the top of a Fortune 500 company without a MBA or an US university degree. He has said Honeywell was already preparing the three-way breakup roughly a year before activist investor Elliott Management publicly called for it in November 2024, and by mid-2026 he had completed both the Solstice spin-off (October 2025) and the Aerospace spin-off (June 2026), the most significant restructuring in the company's history.