Air Products appoints Eduardo Menezes Chief Executive Officer
February 10, 2025
Air Products, headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA, has announced the appointment of Eduardo F Menezes as Chief Executive Officer, effective February 7, 2025. Menezes will succeed Seifollah Ghasemi, who is leaving the company after over ten years of service. Menezes will also join the Air Products Board.
The company’s board of directors has also appointed Wayne T Smith as chairman and Dennis H Reilley as vice chairman. As part of the full board, they will collaborate with Menezes and the leadership of Air Products in an effort to advance the company.
Commenting on the appointment of Eduardo Menezes, Smith stated, “After evaluating various exceptional candidates for the CEO role, the Board determined that Eduardo’s knowledge, skills and extensive experience in the industrial gases sector, including more than three-and-a-half decades in progressively senior roles at Linde plc and operating experience across the world, make him uniquely qualified to take Air Products forward and maximise value for shareholders.”
Menezes added, “Air Products is a fantastic company with a great future, and I am honoured to have this opportunity to work with the talented team to build on the company’s strong positions. I look forward to applying the experiences and perspectives I’ve gained in working across various sectors of industrial gases in different countries around the world. With our collective focus and discipline, I am confident in our ability to drive superior value.”
Menezes brings international experience in all key sectors of industrial gases, including on-site, merchant liquid, packaged gases and hydrogen. In his last position, he was the executive vice president (EVP) of Linde plc for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with responsibility for operations in more than forty countries with over $8 billion in sales and 18,000 employees. Prior to that, Menezes worked for Praxair in a variety of senior roles, including as EVP accountable for North America and in a series of general management and business development positions in the US, Spain, Mexico and Brazil.
Menezes holds an MBA from the State University of New York and a chemical engineering degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
