Andreas Kramvis - President and CEO, Specialty Materials

Andreas Kramvis was named president and chief executive officer of Honeywell Specialty Materials in March 2008. Specialty Materials, a $5.3 billion strategic business group of Honeywell based in Morristown, N.J., is a global leader in providing customers with high-performance specialty materials, including fluorine products; specialty films and additives; advanced fibers and composites; intermediates; specialty chemicals; electronic materials and chemicals; and technologies and                                           materials for petroleum refining.

Before being named to his current post, Andreas served six years as president of Environmental and Combustion Controls (ECC), a strategic business unit of Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions that provides integrated product solutions in heating and heating processes, ventilation, cooling and refrigeration, air filtration, zoning, humidification, air conditioning, water controls and processes, electrical devices and systems, lighting control, buildings controls, switches, sensors and controllers. ECC's technologies are found in more than 150 million homes, 10 million buildings and a multitude of manufacturing plants around the world.

Andreas began his business career in Europe and has global experience as an executive in a variety of industries. In addition to heating, ventilating and air-conditioning with ECC, he has worked in consumer goods for Cadbury-Schweppes PLC, computer peripherals with Comtech, and security with Pittway, which later became part of Honeywell. Andreas is a graduate of Cambridge University, where he studied engineering, specializing in electronics. He also holds a master's degree in business administration from Manchester Business School.