Biography
Anne T. Madden is Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Honeywell, where she has global responsibility for the company’s legal, compliance, government relations and health, safety, environmental and sustainability functions. Anne serves on Honeywell’s senior leadership team and as a Company officer.
Starting in 2002, Anne became Vice President, Corporate Development and Global Head M&A for Honeywell, leading Honeywell’s acquisition and divestiture activities on a global basis. During her 15-year tenure in that role, Honeywell made about 100 acquisitions representing approximately $15 billion in revenues and divested about 70 businesses representing $9 billion of non-core revenues. Anne joined the former AlliedSignal in June 1996 as General Counsel, Fluorine Products. In December 1996, she became Vice President and General Counsel of Specialty Chemicals. In July 2000, she became Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, responsible for all of the legal affairs for Honeywell’s Performance Materials and Technologies strategic business group.
Anne received Honeywell’s Premier Achievement Award in 1997 and received Honeywell’s Senior Leadership Award in 2005. She was recognized as a “Woman Worth Watching” by Profiles in Diversity Magazine in 2011, received the NJ Biz “Best Fifty Women in Business” award in 2012, and was named by Treasury and Risk Magazine as one of the Top Females in Finance in 2012. Anne currently serves as a member of the Investment Committee for Honeywell Ventures, an early stage investment vehicle. Anne is a member of the Association of General Counsel and a member of the Board of The Institute for Legal Reform.
Prior to joining Honeywell, Anne was in private practice at the New York law firm of Shearman & Sterling, focusing on M&A and Corporate Finance. Prior to joining Shearman & Sterling, Anne was an auditor in the Financial Services Group of KPMG Peat Marwick in New York.
Anne received an A.B. in English and American literature from Brown University, an M.S. in accounting and an M.B.A. in finance from the NYU Stern School of Business, and a J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law, where she was Managing Editor of the Law Review.