Vimal Kapur is splitting Honeywell’s portfolio the way an engineer reads a P&L

Some CEOs inherit a conglomerate and polish it. Vimal Kapur’s public Honeywell chapter is portfolio architecture. Chairman and CEO of what Honeywell now describes as a global automation company, he became CEO in 2023 and chairman in 2024 after serving as president and COO — and company materials credit him as architect of a separation into three industry-focused public companies.

Honeywell’s familiar product world spans building and industrial automation, aerospace systems, and advanced materials — controls, software, and hardware that keep factories, buildings, aircraft, and process plants running. Under Kapur’s transformation narrative, that mix is being clarified into Honeywell Aerospace, Solstice Advanced Materials, and Honeywell Technologies as focused pure-plays, while the automation business he chairs leans into the shift from automation toward autonomy.

He joined a Honeywell joint venture in 1989 after starting his career in 1986, later leading Process Solutions, Building Technologies / Building Automation, and Performance Materials and Technologies. An electronics engineering degree from Thapar Institute of Engineering grounds a résumé that reads plant-floor before boardroom.

The recent public fact is that separation strategy itself — acquisitions measured in the billions on the official bio, plus the three-company roadmap published under his chairman-and-CEO title. This profile closes on named industrial craft: the engineer-executive reshaping how the public meets Honeywell’s products.