Louis Chênevert

Award-Winning Aerospace Executive

Louis Chênevert is an award-winning aerospace industry executive and the former chairman and CEO of United Technologies Corporation (UTC). Retired from UTC since 2014, he maintains an active public life through consulting and philanthropy.

He served as a senior industry advisor in Goldman Sachs' Merchant Banking Division from 2015-17, targeting business opportunities in the industrial and aerospace sectors. Louis Chênevert also served on the board of directors of Cargill, Inc. from 2011-20.

Mr. Chênevert focuses his philanthropic efforts primarily in healthcare and education. Through a private family foundation launched with his wife, Debbie, in 2009, he gifted $4.3 million to the Yale Cancer Center to establish the Chênevert Family Brain Tumor Center. The foundation also made a substantial gift to Connecticut Children's in 2025 to support the development of a cellular and gene therapy unit in a new multi-story clinical tower. Mr. Chênevert has been involved with the Yale Cancer Center for over two decades, having joined its Advisory Board in 1999 and being named chair of the board in 2013.

In education, the Chênevert Family Foundation has donated to HEC Montréal in support of a modern new building in downtown Montréal. Mr. Chênevert is chairman of the school's International Advisory Board and a founding director and chairman of Friends of HEC Montréal.
Louis Chênevert was named president and CEO of UTC in 2008 and chairman in 2010; prior to that, he was COO and a director of the corporation. He came to UTC in 2006 after more than a decade with its subsidiary Pratt & Whitney, culminating in his role as president of the business unit from 1999-2006. Earlier in his career, he worked at General Motors and was production general manager at its assembly operation in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec.

Mr. Chênevert earned a bachelor of commerce in production management and an honorary doctorate from HEC Montréal. He has received several honors throughout his career, including the United Service Organization's Distinguished Service Award and Aviation Week & Space Technology’s 2011 Person of the Year. In 2005, he was inducted as a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.