Vice President, General Counsel, Asia Pacific
Honeywell International
Selena L. LaCroix has been named vice president, general counsel, Asia Pacific for Honeywell International. LaCroix is located in Shanghai, China, where she is responsible for all legal affairs of the four main Honeywell business groups—aerospace, automation, controls & sensors, and specialty materials and transportation—in the AP region.
Prior to joining Honeywell, LaCroix was general counsel for Texas Instruments’ Worldwide Technology Manufacturing Group. Previously, she headed TI’s Asia-Pacific legal department, covering countries including China, India, Australia, and South-East Asia with a legal focus on technology licensing, sales and distribution, compliance and corporate governance, litigation management, and strategic alliances. She had also been the legal lead for the company’s Semiconductor, Broadband & Imaging Group, as well as legal counsel for TI’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group.
Before joining TI in 1995, LaCroix practiced law with Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich in San Diego and Palo Alto. She began her practice of law in Singapore and specialized in intellectual property, admiralty, and general corporate law.
LaCroix received her L.L.B. “Hons” from the National University of Singapore and completed the Graduate Program in American Law at University of Berkeley/Davis. She is a member of the California State Bar, the Law Society of Singapore, a solicitor of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the Law Academy of Singapore, past chair of South East Asia Law for the American Bar Association (1999–2000), honorary chair of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, and on the board of the Diversity Council for the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (2005). She is qualified at the Bars in California and Singapore, and a solicitor in the United Kingdom.
LaCroix speaks Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese and Fujian dialects, and Malay.