UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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Form 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
DATE OF REPORT – May 1, 2018
(Date of earliest event reported – April 30, 2018)
honeywell international inc.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its Charter)
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DELAWARE (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
1-8974 (Commission File Number) |
22-2640650 (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number) |
| 115 TABOR ROAD, MORRIS PLAINS, NEW JERSEY | 07950 |
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (973) 455-2000
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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 May 1, 2018, Honeywell International Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Tom Szlosek, the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has communicated his intention to retire from the Company for personal reasons effective as of August 3, 2018 (the “Transition Date”). Mr. Szlosek has agreed to continue to serve as Chief Financial Officer of the Company during a three-month period ending on the Transition Date.
Effective as of the Transition Date, subject to the approval of the Company’s Board of Directors, Greg Lewis, age 50, will be named as Mr. Szlosek’s successor as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company and will become an officer of the Company at that time. Mr. Lewis began his career at the Company in 2006 as Chief Financial Officer of the former Performance Products business unit, a specialty chemicals and materials enterprise with a rapidly growing global footprint, and has held progressively senior finance roles since that time. Since October 2016, Lewis has served as Vice President, Enterprise Information Management, and overseen the elimination of 32 enterprise resource planning systems and put the Company on a path to drive significant savings over the next several years. Prior to that, Mr. Lewis served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the former $16 billion Automation and Control Solutions (ACS) business group, where he played a central role in splitting the group into two nimbler, more focused units and was instrumental in the successful integration of several key acquisitions. Before that, Mr. Lewis served as Chief Financial Officer of Honeywell Process Solutions, where he helped support a business turnaround. Prior to that, Mr. Lewis served as the Company’s Vice President, Business Analysis and Planning.
Before joining the Company, Mr. Lewis spent three years in the plastics industry at Tyco International (“Tyco”), where he was Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer for the A&E Products division and co-led that business’s divestiture. For five years prior to Tyco, Mr. Lewis held a number of finance leadership roles at The Stanley Works, including Finance Manager and Global FP&A Manager. Mr. Lewis began his career at Kraft Foods, where he held various operations finance roles, including Plant Controller. Mr. Lewis earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Connecticut and M.B.A. from Fordham University.
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: May 1, 2018 | HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. |
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By: /s/ Anne T. Madden and Corporate Secretary |