Honeywell CEO: Putting the Deficit in Plain Termsbr The Aspen Institute - Paepcke Auditoriumbr Honeywell CEO David Cote: An American Competitiveness Agenda. Through Honeywell chairman and CEO David Cote’s tenure, stock price is up 84 percent and total shareowner return is plus 215 percent, outperforming the SP 500. What does the United States need to do to compete as effectively on the world market? Cote has a strategy.