Council on American Politics

Thomas L. Buckmaster
Vice President, Corporate Communications
Honeywell

As Vice President of Communications, Mr. Buckmaster oversees global advertising, branding and communications for Honeywell, a $33 billion company with operations in more than 500 locations worldwide. Mr. Buckmaster also serves as President of Honeywell Hometown Solutions, the company's philanthropic and community relations initiative.

Honeywell is a diversified global technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; sensors; automotive products; specialty chemicals; fibers; and electronic and advanced materials. Honeywell employs approximately 120,000 people in 100 countries and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HON, as well as on the London, Chicago and Pacific stock exchanges. It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Tom's accomplishments at Honeywell include the repositioning of the company's brand and supporting advertising standards, implementing a contemporary universal web strategy for all on-line applications, the development and execution of an employee value proposition and the creation of a new global platform for corporate giving. The results of these initiatives include improved brand awareness and alignment, expanded employee engagement, and productivity- driven cost reductions. He has championed public affairs programs on topics ranging from energy efficiency to homeland security and globalization and participated in significant M&A and crisis management/mitigation initiatives. In 2006 Tom was recognized for this body of work with the Honeywell Senior Leadership Award, the company's top honor.

Mr. Buckmaster previously served in senior leadership positions in several of the world's leading public relations agencies including President of Edelman PR New York, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Hill and Knowlton's Washington office and a senior partner of Fleishman Hillard, Inc.

Mr. Buckmaster has lectured widely to groups as diverse as the American Gas Association, the Conference Board, Environmental Law Institute, the Public Affairs Council, New York University Taft School of Government and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is frequently sought for his views on risk communications, corporate character and venture philanthropy.

Mr. Buckmaster has received most of the top awards for professional achievement in the communications industry, including two Sabre Gold Awards (for Honeywell's Community Relations programming in 2005 and with Barnes & Noble in 2000), The Promotional Marketing Association's Gold Reggie (for community outreach in 2006), the CIPRA Gold Award (Credit Union Campaign for Consumer Choice in 1999), the Silver Anvil Award (with The Prudential in 1996) and the Mercury Gold Award for public service programming (with the Beer Institute in 1989). In 2005, he accepted the U.S. Department of Justice Corporate Leadership Award for the company's work with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society, the Board of Directors of Rebuilding Together, and the Council on American Politics, the advisory board for George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management. Previously, he served as a board member of the Institute for Public Relations.