Honeywell has appointed Darius Adamczyk to the company’s newly created role of president and chief operating officer (COO) effective immediately, reporting to chairman and CEO Dave Cote.
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Image of Adamczyk, from Honeywell Twitter. |
The heads of all Honeywell businesses along with HOS Gold will report to Adamczyk, 50, who will be an executive officer of the corporation. As COO, Adamczyk will work closely with Cote to drive continued profitable growth of Honeywell's operating businesses through HOS Gold breakthrough growth strategies, including advanced software offerings.
Since 2014, Adamczyk has served as president and CEO of Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies (PMT), including low global warming refrigerants, specialty films for healthcare and photovoltaic applications, leading technologies for the global refining and petrochemicals industry, and process solutions with US$9.3 billion in revenue in 2015.
Succeeding Adamczyk will be Rajeev Gautam, who will also be an executive officer. Gautam has served as president of Honeywell UOP since 2009 while leading expansion into new markets such as gas, biofuels and water treatment; driving breakthrough strategies that blend software with process technologies and controls systems (Connected Performance Services); and introducing breakthrough process technologies such as methanol-to-olefins, on-purpose propylene and bottom-of-the-barrel upgrading.
Honeywell also announced that Rebecca Liebert will succeed Gautam as president of Honeywell UOP. Liebert earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Kentucky, a doctorate in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. After serving at Alcoa, Nova Chemicals and Arco Chemical Co., Liebert joined Honeywell in 2006 as Vice President/General Manager of the Electronic Materials business, where she was instrumental in leading the business into new markets, diversifying the product portfolio, driving new product development along with operational efficiency, and steering the business through a severe industry downturn and positioning it for a strong recovery. Liebert joined Honeywell UOP four years ago as senior vice president/general manager of the gas processing and hydrogen business, which she tripled to $1 billion in sales within three years. Most recently, as senior vice president/general manager of the catalysts, adsorbents and specialties business, Liebert has driven outperformance in a very difficult industry environment.
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