UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
Form 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
DATE OF REPORT – January 5, 2022
(Date of earliest event reported)
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Item 5.02 | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. | ||||
On January 5, 2022, Honeywell International Inc. (“Honeywell” or the “Company”) announced that Mr. George Koutsaftes, age 52, has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of its Safety and Productivity Solutions segment (“SPS”), effective immediately, and has been elected by the Board of Directors to succeed Mr. John F. Waldron, age 46, as President and Chief Executive Officer of SPS and as an executive officer of the Company, effective April 1, 2022. Mr. Waldron will continue to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of SPS until April 1, 2022, when he will then be appointed to another senior leadership role within Honeywell.
Mr. Koutsaftes most recently served as President of the Advanced Materials business in Honeywell’s Performance Materials and Technologies segment (“PMT”) from November 2017 to January 2022 and as interim global leader of Business Development and Mergers and Acquisitions from May to December 2019. Mr. Koutsaftes joined Honeywell in 2008 as Director, Mergers and Acquisitions for PMT and then led Procurement and Trade Compliance for PMT before leading the Fluorine Products business within Advanced Materials. Prior to joining Honeywell, Mr. Koutsaftes was a mergers and acquisitions advisor at Young and Partners LLC, Eureka Capital Markets LLC, and Arthur Andersen Corporate Finance LLP. Mr. Koutsaftes earned a B.S. in accounting from Marist College and an M.B.A. in finance from Fordham University.
(d) Exhibits
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| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document). | |||||||
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Date: | January 5, 2022 | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. | |||||||||||||||
By: /s/ Victor J. Miller | |||||||||||||||||
| Victor J. Miller | |||||||||||||||||
| Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer | |||||||||||||||||