Kailash Krishnaswamy is Senior Vice President of Aftermarket for Spirit AeroSystems. Prior to this role, Krishnaswamy was Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions, and China Operations. 

 

Krishnaswamy joined Spirit from United Technologies Corp. (UTC) where he was a senior director in corporate M&A. In that role, he was responsible for companywide business and financial strategies including digital transformation, additive manufacturing, capital markets alternatives, divestitures and M&A. His first assignment at UTC was to execute the sale of Sikorsky. 

 

Prior to UTC, he held investment banking positions at Credit Suisse, where he developed and executed M&A transactions in the aerospace and defense sector. Krishnaswamy began his career at Honeywell Aerospace providing technology strategy, competitive intelligence, intellectual property and innovation portfolio expertise to internal R&D teams. 

 

Krishnaswamy has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He earned a doctorate (fellow) in mechanical control systems from the University of Minnesota and is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.