Honeywell International Inc. ·HON

Four autonomous business CEOs report directly to the CEO

Q: Who is the CEO of Honeywell International?

Vimal Kapur has served as Chairman and CEO since 2023.

Q: What type of organizational structure does Honeywell use?

Honeywell operates a divisional structure with autonomous business segment CEOs.

Q: How many direct reports does Honeywell's CEO have?

The CEO has 13 direct reports, including multiple segment CEOs and corporate chiefs.

Q: How has Honeywell's leadership changed recently?

Recent changes include a major segment realignment in 2026 and new independent directors added to the board.

Q: Who reports directly to Honeywell's CEO?

Four business segment CEOs and the heads of finance, HR, technology, legal, digital, supply chain, strategy, and commercial functions report directly.

Industrials · Fortune #77 · Divisional structure · 95K employees · Charlotte, NC

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CEO span

↑ wider than peers (avg 7)

2.5

Avg span

tight

Max depth

2 levels

3.8 yr

Avg tenure

stable vs FY2024

69%

Internal hires

↑ above industry avg

Consolidated financials FY2025 · period end 2025-12-31 · 10-K

Revenue

$37.4B

Operating income

$8.1B

Net income

$4.7B

Total assets

$73.7B

Shares out

636M

Sourced from Honeywell International Inc. DEF 14A · filed 2026-04-10 ↗ View on SEC

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Honeywell International Inc. organizational chart

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Four autonomous business CEOs report directly to Honeywell’s CEO, creating a clean divisional structure. This page maps Honeywell’s executive org, business segment leadership, governance context, recent leadership changes, and peer comparisons to highlight how the structure supports portfolio separation.

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Latest signal Indra K. Nooyi joined as Independent Director

Joined the Honeywell Board effective January 1, 2026.

Source · See change log

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The people

Who's running this

12 executives identified as Named Executive Officers in the most recent SEC proxy. Bar length scales with tenure.

internal

Vimal Kapur

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Executive

3 yr

13 reports

Michal Stepniak

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Finance

3 yr

0 reports

internal

James Currier

President and CEO, Aerospace Technologies

Aerospace

5 yr

0 reports

internal

Billal Hammoud

President and CEO, Building Automation

Building Automation

4 yr

0 reports

internal

Peter Lau

President and CEO, Industrial Automation

Industrial Automation

2 yr

0 reports

Jim Masso

President and CEO, Process Automation

Process Automation

1 yr

0 reports

internal

Suresh Venkatarayalu

Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer

Technology

5 yr

0 reports

internal

Ken West

President and CEO, Process Technology

Process Technology

2 yr

0 reports

internal

Anant Maheshwari

President, Strategy and President & CEO, Global Regions

Strategy

4 yr

0 reports

Sheila Jordan

Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Technology Officer

4 yr

0 reports

internal

Karen Mattimore

Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer

3 yr

0 reports

internal

Eric Seidel

Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer

Commercial

3 yr

0 reports

The pay

Executive compensation

From the most recent DEF 14A Summary Compensation Table. 5 named executive officers disclosed. Bar length scales with total compensation.

Vimal Kapur $20.4M

Base salary: $1.60M
Stock awards: $10.87M
Option awards: $3.62M
Non-equity incentive: $3.52M
Pension change: $574K
Other: $201K
Fiscal year: FY2025
Source: SEC DEF 14A ↗

Michal Stepniak $6.4M

Base salary: $875K
Stock awards: $2.85M
Option awards: $947K
Non-equity incentive: $1.25M
Other: $457K
Fiscal year: FY2025
Source: SEC DEF 14A ↗

James Currier $6.4M

Base salary: $826K
Stock awards: $3.00M
Option awards: $999K
Non-equity incentive: $1.16M
Pension change: $330K
Other: $79K
Fiscal year: FY2025
Source: SEC DEF 14A ↗

James Masso $4.9M

Base salary: $299K
Stock awards: $3.85M
Option awards: $413K
Non-equity incentive: $314K
Other: $5K
Fiscal year: FY2025
Source: SEC DEF 14A ↗

Billal Hammoud $4.7M

Base salary: $694K
Stock awards: $2.48M
Option awards: $486K
Non-equity incentive: $1.01M
Pension change: $10K
Other: $58K
Fiscal year: FY2025
Source: SEC DEF 14A ↗

The skin in the game

Beneficial ownership

Insider stock holdings and the company's ownership requirements for executives and directors. Disclosed in the most recent DEF 14A.

Stock ownership requirements

6×CEO base salary

3×NEO base salary

5×Director cash retainer

Executives must meet ownership multiples of base salary per stock ownership guidelines.

Holder	Shares	% of class
Vimal Kapur	355K	<1%
Billal Hammoud	34K	<1%
Michal Stepniak	30K	<1%
James Masso	—	<1%
James Currier	54K	<1%

The businesses

How Honeywell International Inc. divides the work

4 divisions report into the group CEO. Tile size scales with estimated headcount.

Aerospace Technologies

35K employees

President and CEO (James Currier)

Designs and manufactures aircraft engines, avionics, and aerospace systems.

$17.5B rev $4.3B op inc 24.5% margin +13.3% YoY FY2025

Building Automation

20K employees

President and CEO (Billal Hammoud)

Provides building controls, safety, energy management, and security solutions.

$7.4B rev $2.0B op inc 26.5% margin +12.6% YoY FY2025

Industrial Automation

18K employees

President and CEO (Peter Lau)

Delivers sensing, safety, productivity, and workflow automation technologies.

$9.4B rev $1.7B op inc 18.5% margin -6.5% YoY FY2025

Process Automation and Technology

12K employees

President and CEO (Jim Masso)

Serves energy, chemicals, and materials customers with process controls and UOP technology.

$3.1B rev $692M op inc 22.1% margin +18.6% YoY FY2025

The thesis

Why this org is unusual

Four autonomous business CEOs report directly to the Honeywell CEO, an unusually pure divisional model for a diversified industrial of this scale.

Each major operating segment—Aerospace Technologies, Building Automation, Industrial Automation, Process Automation, and Process Technology—has its own P&L leader with CEO title, minimizing intermediate layers. Corporate functions remain centralized, but the operating core is deliberately decentralized to prepare for portfolio separation.

Multiple segment leaders hold CEO titles
No group COO role
Structure optimized for spin-offs

The comparison

How Honeywell International Inc. stacks up

Peers like GE, Siemens, and 3M operate divisional structures, but Honeywell stands out in formally designating multiple segment heads as CEOs reporting directly to the group CEO. This reduces hierarchy and speeds capital allocation decisions, especially ahead of the Aerospace spin-off, compared with peers that retain …

C-suite size

Honeywell International Inc.

General Electric

Siemens

United Technologies (RTX)

Reporting depth

Honeywell International Inc.

2 levels

General Electric

5 levels

Siemens

5 levels

United Technologies (RTX)

5 levels

Avg C-suite tenure

Honeywell International Inc.

4 yr

General Electric

4 yr

Siemens

5 yr

4 yr

United Technologies (RTX)

3 yr

Has COO / Has CAIO

Honeywell International Inc. — no COO — no CAIO

General Electric — no COO — no CAIO

Siemens ✓ COO — no CAIO

3M — no COO — no CAIO

United Technologies (RTX) — no COO — no CAIO

Current signals

What changed recently

The most significant change was the 2026 segment realignment creating Process Automation and Technology ahead of portfolio separation.

Jan 1, 2026 new
Indra K. Nooyi Independent Director
Joined the Honeywell Board effective January 1, 2026.
Source
Date not confirmed reorg
Process Automation and Technology Segment realignment
Industrial Automation and Energy & Sustainability assets realigned into new Process Automation and Technology segment, effective Q1 2026.
Source
Date not confirmed departed
Gregory P. Lewis Former CFO
Transitioned to Senior Advisor role and exited CFO position in 2025.
Source

Leadership Timeline

Year-over-year executive structure based on SEC proxy and annual filings.

FY2025

DEF 14A filed 2026-04-10

CEO: Vimal Kapur
CEO span: 10
C-suite: 7
Avg tenure: 3.5 yr

Preparation for Aerospace spin-off dominated leadership structure.

Named executive officers (5)

Vimal Kapur - CEO since 2023
Michal Stepniak - CFO since 2023
James Currier - CEO Aerospace since 2021
Billal Hammoud - CEO Building since 2022
Jim Masso - CEO Process Automation since 2025

FY2024

DEF 14A filed 2025-04-11

CEO: Vimal Kapur
CEO span: 9
C-suite: 7
Avg tenure: 3.2 yr

Legacy industrial segment structure prior to 2026 realignment.

Named executive officers (5)

Vimal Kapur - CEO since 2023
Gregory P. Lewis - CFO since 2020
James Currier - CEO Aerospace since 2021
Billal Hammoud - CEO Building since 2022
Lucian Boldea - CEO Industrial since 2020

FY2023

DEF 14A filed 2024-04-12

CEO: Vimal Kapur
CEO span: 8
C-suite: 6
Avg tenure: 4.1 yr

Early phase of Kapur CEO tenure.

Named executive officers (5)

Vimal Kapur - CEO since 2023
Gregory P. Lewis - CFO since 2020
James Currier - CEO Aerospace since 2021
Billal Hammoud - CEO Building since 2022
Lucian Boldea - CEO Industrial since 2020

Year-over-year changes

FY2023 → FY2024

Incremental expansion of CEO span with clearer divisional accountability.

CEO span: 8 → 9
C-suite size: 6 → 7
Avg tenure: 4.1 → 3.2 yr

retitled Billal Hammoud - CEO Building Automation (was President) (DEF 14A 2025)

FY2024 → FY2025

Process Automation leadership refreshed and portfolio reshaped ahead of 2026 reorg.

CEO span: 9 → 10
C-suite size: 7 → 7
Avg tenure: 3.2 → 3.5 yr

new Jim Masso - CEO Process Automation (DEF 14A 2026)
departed Lucian Boldea - CEO Industrial (was CEO Industrial) (DEF 14A 2026)

The board

Board of directors

11 directors. 10 of 11 independent (91%). Source: most recent DEF 14A.

Vimal Kapur

Chair Inside

Chairman and CEO, Honeywell

Director since 2023

William S. Ayer

Lead Indep. Independent

Former CEO, Alaska Air Group

Director since 2018

Indra K. Nooyi

Independent

Former CEO, PepsiCo

Director since 2026 · Age 70

Also on: Amazon, Philips

Craig Arnold

Independent

Former CEO, Eaton

Director since 2025 · Age 65

Kevin Burke

Independent

Former CEO, ConocoPhillips

Director since 2014

D. Scott Davis

Independent

Former CEO, UPS

Director since 2016

Deborah Flint

Independent

CEO, Greater Toronto Airports Authority

Director since 2020

Michael W. Lamach

Independent

Former CEO, Trane Technologies

Director since 2023

Robin Watson

Independent

Former CEO, Wood

Director since 2021

Stephen Williamson

Independent

Former CFO, Lockheed Martin

Director since 2022

Duncan B. Angove

Independent

CEO, Blue Yonder

Director since 2024

The board, organized

Board committees

3 standing committees. Audit and Compensation must be 100% independent under SEC rules; the rest vary.

Audit Committee

100% independent 8 mtgs/yr

Indra K. Nooyi Chair
Stephen Williamson
D. Scott Davis

Compensation Committee

100% independent 7 mtgs/yr

William S. Ayer Chair
Kevin Burke
Robin Watson

Nominating and Governance Committee

100% independent 6 mtgs/yr

Michael W. Lamach Chair
Deborah Flint
Duncan B. Angove

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is the CEO of Honeywell International?

Vimal Kapur has served as Chairman and CEO since 2023.

What type of organizational structure does Honeywell use?

Honeywell operates a divisional structure with autonomous business segment CEOs.

How many direct reports does Honeywell's CEO have?

The CEO has 13 direct reports, including multiple segment CEOs and corporate chiefs.

How has Honeywell's leadership changed recently?

Recent changes include a major segment realignment in 2026 and new independent directors added to the board.

Who reports directly to Honeywell's CEO?

Four business segment CEOs and the heads of finance, HR, technology, legal, digital, supply chain, strategy, and commercial functions report directly.

Sources

Form 8-K, Dec 10 2025
Form 10-K, Feb 2026
DEF 14A, Apr 2026
SEC EDGAR: Honeywell International Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement
SEC EDGAR: Honeywell International Inc. 10-K Annual Report

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