Harsha Chandrashekar

Harsha Chandrashekar is the Senior Portfolio & Product Leader for Honeywell Building Automation and is responsible for full life-cycle management of product offerings. Harsha brings 25 years of prior experience in the building automation industry, with roles in engineering leadership, offering management, product portfolio management, IP & technology management, M&A analysis and integration, operations, industry affairs, pricing, project management, and new product and technology development. He has 3 awarded patents and holds MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Harsha is Professional & customer focused leader with proven skills in Portfolio Life-Cycle Management, Value Based Pricing & Product Operations with extensive expreience in Intelligent Buildings , fire and security offerings.

With over 25+ years of experience within Honeywell, Mr Harsha has wider view and understanding of the end markets, technologies, products solutions offered to customers. An assertive and innovative leader with a focus on NPI Launch, Segmentation, Portfolio Management, Break through Initiatives, Roadmaps and Business Model Innovation with experience of leading direct or matrix managed teams, interfacing with internal and external stakeholders.

Harsha is accomplished executive with extensive experience in the life safety, energy, intelligent buildings and automation sectors. Currently serving as Portfolio & Product leader with focus on Portfolio Roadmap, Customer and Core Growth, Portfolio Revenue & Margin Mix Management, Portfolio Lifecycle Management, Portfolio Demand Planning, Industry Analysis & Competitive Intelligence. He has contributed to flawless launch of several New Products with revenue exceding AoP by 10%+, Launched Mid-Market Fire-Lite Brand Offering in Australia market trageting mid-segment capturing 10-15% market share in this segment. Helped Honeywell Fire & Security Pacific leadership team in setting the strategic marketing focus for products, channel strategy for different product categories, Enabled Honeywell Commercial Fire Pacific regional team to plan and execute the Annual Operating Plan across Revenue, Profitability and Working Capital by providing the right business decisions through intelligent risk taking, integrative thinking and working together in a team environment to ensure collectively the team gets results. Launched new offering as and when available and drive fast adoption.