Eduardo Menezes

Eduardo Menezes joined Air Products as Chief Executive Officer in February 2025. He is responsible for setting the strategy and policies of the Company, developing leadership and meeting shareholder commitments. Mr. Menezes has extensive experience in the industrial gases sector around the world, including operating experience in all key sectors of industrial gases, such as on-sites, merchant liquid, packaged gases and hydrogen.

Prior to joining Air Products, Mr. Menezes served as Executive Vice President of Linde plc from 2018 to 2021, with responsibility for Europe, Middle East and Africa. In this role, Mr. Menezes had responsibility for operations in more than 40 countries with over $8 billion in sales and 18,000 employees.  Mr. Menezes previously served for over three decades in progressively senior roles at Praxair, Inc., prior to its acquisition by Linde. From 2012 through the time of the merger, Mr. Menezes served as an Executive Vice President, with responsibilities during that period for Praxair’s businesses in Asia, Europe, Mexico and South America, as well as for global hydrogen operations. Mr. Menezes previously served as Executive Vice President with responsibility for Praxair’s North American Industrial Gases and Mexico businesses and for Praxair Distribution, Inc., Praxair’s packaged gases business, and, from 2010 to 2011, as head of the North American Industrial Gases business. From 2007 to 2010, he was President of Praxair Europe. He served as Managing Director of Praxair's business in Mexico from 2004 to 2007, as Vice President and General Manager for Praxair Distribution, Inc. from 2003 to 2004 and as Vice President, U.S. West Region, for North American Industrial Gases, from 2000 to 2003. 

Mr. Menezes holds an M.B.A. from the State University of New York and a chemical engineering degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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