Ashish Modi Appointed As Country President For India By US Consumer Tech Firm Honeywell

Honeywell, a US-based consumer technology company on Thursday has appointed Ashish Modi as country president for India. Ashish Modi, who has over 20 years of experience and worked at McKinsey & Co, will continue to retain his existing role as Vice President and General Manager for Honeywell Building Technology (HBT) India and Asia. He has led the HBT business in India, ASEAN, Korea and Japan to deliver growth and business excellence, in his current role.

Ben Driggs, President and CEO, High Growth Regions, Honeywell said that “Ashish Modi will drive India’s strategic priorities and continue to cultivate our diversified country portfolio with focus on our growth vectors, key accounts and partnerships.”

Modi earlier served in various leadership roles including VP and COO of Honeywell Connected Plant, Global VP and GM for Advanced Solutions business and GM of Lifecycle Solutions & Services business in India and APAC.

After being appointed as country head for India, Modi said that “Coupled with Honeywell’s position as a leading industrial technology company, we have made fantastic progress within the country on both sustainability and digitalisation.” “I look forward to building on that as well as further shaping the next stage of growth and innovation in the company,” he added.

Ashish Modi has a bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, a Master of Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

This has been another high-profile appointment in one year. In February 2022, Rajesh Reje was appointed as the country president of India and was base in Bengaluru. He was responsible for the four strategic business groups in India: Aerospace, Honeywell Building Technologies (HBT), Performance Materials and Technologies (PMT) and Safety and Productivity Solutions (SPS). He replaced Ashish Gaikwad who served as the interim president for Honeywell India. Additionally, Vimal Kapur was appointed as the COO of the company, last year in July. He was earlier the president and CEO of the Honeywell Performance Material and Technologies. Kapur has now been handed over as the president of all Honeywell Strategic Business Groups.

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Honeywell Internationals Inc. is an American traded company who works of four strategic business mainly, which are aerospace, building technologies, performance material and technologies and Safety and Productivity solutions. The company is listed under Fortune 100, ranked 94^th in 2021.