Resideo Technologies, Inc. announced that Tom Surran has been appointed President of Resideo's Products & Solutions business, effective immediately. Surran will be responsible for all aspects of the company's Products & Solutions business, including innovation, engineering, new product development, product management, customer experience, sales, and operations. He will report to CEO, Jay Geldmacher, and serve on the executive management team.

Surran joins Resideo with an extensive background in product management, bringing new products to market, and operational excellence. Surran previously served as Chief Operating Officer at FLIR, overseeing engineering, manufacturing, logistics, and sales. In this role, Surran drove profitability improvements through business process standardization, organizational realignment, and product development.

Prior to that role, Surran was the General Manager for FLIR's Raymarine business unit where he overhauled product development processes and revitalized the business through new platform-based products. Surran reduced the development time for Raymarine's new products from the prior multi-year timelines to less than one year. Surran succeeds current Products & Solutions president Phil Theodore, who will move into a new role as Senior Vice President, Executive Advisor.

Phil joined Resideo in June of 2020 as Chief Transformation Officer and he assumed the role of President, Products & Solutions in October of 2020. Since taking on the President role, Theodore successfully evolved the connected and non-connected product offerings, organically and with the acquisition of First Alert, and completed the divestiture of the Genesis wire and cable business. He was instrumental in establishing the Products & Solutions brand strategy and reinvigorating the business unit's customer centric approach with significant investment in the Customer Experience organization as well as the introduction of the Brand Ambassador program and sales enablement training programs.