David M. Cote

David M. Cote is an American business executive who was chief executive of Honeywell from 2002 to 2017 and stayed on as executive chairman until 2018. He began his career at General Electric, where he rose to run GE Appliances, and was chief executive of TRW before moving to Honeywell. President Obama named him to the Simpson-Bowles fiscal commission in 2010, and he became executive chairman of Vertiv in 2020.