Honeywell's Harkins transitions to new role
By Martha Entwistle
Updated Wed June 11, 2014
Honeywell's Scott Harkins is transitioning to a new role.
Honeywell spokeman David Gottlieb today confirmed that “Scott Harkins has accepted a new role within Honeywell to help develop global growth opportunities within the Connected Home space. He will leave his current post as president of Honeywell Security Products Americas by the end of June.”
Honeywell Security Group has not yet announced a successor to Harkins. “Honeywell Security Group has a strong leadership team in place committed to delivering for our customers and ensuring a smooth transition while we execute our succession plan. We will share news regarding our new leadership as soon as we finalize this process,” Gottlieb said in a prepared statement.
Harkins joined Honeywell in 1995. Before he was named president of HSPA in December 2011, he oversaw Honeywell's video surveillance and access control divisions.
I don't know if Harkins' new role will include working with Honeywell's Lyric thermostat, which it launched yesterday. There's been much in the mainstream news today about Honeywell partnering with Apple to "take on" Google's NEST. (Some of these guys do seem to forget that Honeywell HAS been in the thermostat business for a few years.)
Here's a report from Apple Insider .� And here's a report from Bloomberg, which goes on to talk about the connected home.�
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