Arnold joins from GE Aerospace, where he was CIO for engineering and future of flight, a role supporting more than 10,000 engineers globally across commercial and defence operations. He previously served as CIO of Commercial Engines and Services and as CIO of Supply Chain at the same company, leading digital initiatives spanning sales, service, manufacturing, overhaul and repair, ERP, MES, QMS and factory operations.

That last list is the reason the appointment reads as an industrial one rather than a corporate IT move. MES and QMS are plant-floor systems; an executive who has owned them arrives at a materials supplier with a working knowledge of where shop-floor data actually lives.

The company

Entegris supplies advanced materials and process solutions to the semiconductor industry and other high-technology manufacturers. Its products sit inside fabs, which makes the quality and traceability of its own production a direct input to its customers' yields.

Neither the effective date nor the reporting line was disclosed in the announcement, and no AI-specific remit was stated. Entegris has not published a separate release on the appointment at the time of writing.

This is the second senior move this year taking digital leadership out of GE Aerospace, which in August appointed Anton Groom as its own Chief Data & AI Officer.

According to the report, the role covers identifying and scaling practical AI and digital solutions across the unit, and developing a roadmap for expanding AI and innovation across regions and service lines. Priority areas named are productivity, digital inspection, managed assurance, inspection intelligence and new digital offerings for customers.

The announcement also frames the position around responsible use: supporting AI in industrial settings with an emphasis on trust, governance and human oversight, an unusual explicit mandate for an operational AI role.

DNV, headquartered in Norway, provides classification, certification and assurance services to industrial, energy and maritime companies. The Industrial Services unit is the part of the group that works with manufacturing plants and process facilities.

Groom joins from Merck, where he served as Chief AI Officer and, before that, as Associate Vice President for Agentic & Generative AI and as Head of Hyperautomation. Earlier he spent more than eight years at Walmart, where he was Senior Director II of Digital Transformation in Enterprise Business Services.

In the post, Groom described the brief as harnessing GE Aerospace's data ecosystem to deliver aerospace breakthroughs through AI.

"Data is the fuel that powers the engine of AI innovation, and I am eager to harness GE Aerospace's vast data ecosystem to deliver the next generation of aerospace breakthroughs."

The reporting line was not disclosed. GE Aerospace, headquartered in the United States, designs and manufactures commercial and military jet engines and operates a global network of manufacturing and overhaul plants.

Dhupar was previously Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Analog Devices, where he built cloud-native platforms and integrated data, AI, machine-learning and generative-AI environments. Before that he was Chief Data Officer at BAE Systems, leading data strategy and digital transformation, and CEO and CDAO of Incredible Minds Inc., where he developed AI platforms for healthcare, retail and fintech.

At Honeywell Aerospace, the brief is to bring AI and data to the centre of a mission that powers aircraft, satellites and defence systems.

"The opportunity to bring AI and data to the center of that mission — at this scale, at this moment — is what I'm looking forward to taking on."

Honeywell Aerospace manufactures engines, avionics and mechanical systems for commercial, business and defence aviation.

Jindal joins Terex from CentralSquare Technologies, where she had been Chief Information Officer since 2021. Over the previous two decades she held leadership roles driving digital transformation, including CIO of the Honeywell Intelligrated automation business.

"Her extensive experience with artificial intelligence and enhanced data management will accelerate our transformational digital strategy and help us build a stronger, more efficient, more profitable company." — Simon Meester, President and CEO, Terex

Terex is a global manufacturer of materials-processing machinery, waste and recycling solutions, mobile elevating work platforms and equipment for the electric utility industry. The appointment places AI and data leadership at executive level in a heavy-equipment group with plants in North America, Europe and Asia.