Krishna Mikkilineni to leave Honeywell

Bengaluru: Krishna Mikkilineni, part of the executive leadership team at Honeywell, will be stepping down in April after spending three decades with the company.
Mikkilineni leads engineering and information technology at the US conglomerate, and is responsible for a 20,000-people organisation. He was elevated to the executive leadership team in 2011, reporting directly to then chairman Dave Cote.He had helped expand the Honeywell Operating System and Honeywell User Experience footprints.
The company has extended the time of his existing non-solicitation and non-compete covenants from two years to three years.
Mikkilineni, who did engineering from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad, was instrumental in setting up Honeywell's engineering sites across Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Madurai. The engineering division now employ close to 15,000 people across 50 locations. More than two-thirds of engineering and software development is done out of India.
Honeywell undertook a massive restructuring in October last year after it spun off its transportation systems business, formerly part of aerospace, and of its homes and global distribution business, formerly part of home and building technologies.
Mikkilineni was elevated as senior vice-president of engineering and information technology in 2013. But during the last few years, his scope of responsibilities shrunk, signalling a strategic shift in the company. In response to a question from TOI, Honeywell said engineering, Honeywell Technology Solutions and IT reporting will be determined in advance of Mikkilineni’s departure.