Simon Mawson
Senior Vice President, Electronics & Specialty Materials
Simon Mawson has served as Solstice’s Senior Vice President and General Manager, Electronic and Specialty Materials (ESM) since October 2025. Dr. Mawson has over 25 years of experience in the chemical industry.
Dr. Mawson previously served in several positions at Honeywell International Inc., a publicly traded company that specializes in aerospace technologies, industrial automation, building automation, and energy and sustainable solutions, including as Senior Vice President and General Manager, ESM, Solstice Advanced Materials, from August 2025 to October 2025, President, Advanced Industrial Solutions from July 2024 to August 2025, and Vice President and General Manager, Electronics and Materials from June 2022 to July 2024.
Prior to Honeywell, Dr. Mawson served as Senior Vice President, Head of Business Accelerators/Incubators, from January 2020 to June 2022 and as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Adhesive Technologies from November 2014 to December 2019, at Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, a German company that manufactures adhesives, sealants, and functional coatings.
Dr. Mawson also previously held various other positions in the chemical industry, including Vice President, Novecare at Solvay Chemicals, Inc., a multinational chemical company, from 2011 to 2014, Global Marketing Director, Coatings Additives at Dow Chemical, a multinational chemical producer, from 2009 to 2010, and various sales and marketing roles at Rohm and Haas, a global specialty materials company, from 2001 to 2009.
He started his career as a R&D Process Engineer at Univation Technologies, a Union Carbide/Exxon Chemical joint venture. Dr. Mawson holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University, a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University.
