$ITW

Christopher A. O'Herlihy

Illinois Tool Works

President & CEO • Since 2024 • Industrials

📊 CEO Reputation Score

FY2025 vs FY2024 · Source: SEC EDGAR filings

33/100

Blend of this company's year-over-year free-cash-flow and profit improvement, each ranked as a percentile against every scored company in the three indexes.

Free cash flow: $2.8B → $2.7B (−4.8% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024
Profit (operating income): $4.3B → $4.2B (−1.1% YoY) — fiscal 2025 vs fiscal 2024

How this score works · S&P 500 reputation leaderboard

Overview

Christopher A. O'Herlihy is the president & ceo of Illinois Tool Works since 2024. Illinois Tool Works is a Industrials company headquartered in Glenview, Illinois, founded in 1912, and one of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 — every one of which is profiled on this site.

Leadership

Christopher holds the chief executive role at Illinois Tool Works with the title President & CEO — in post since 2024. This page is the concise leadership record for Illinois Tool Works in the S&P 500 CEO index; the site's fully researched long-form profiles (career timelines, education, achievements, setbacks, philosophy and sourced quotes) currently cover the index's ten largest companies, and this entry will be expanded in the same format.

At a Glance

Sector: Industrials
Ticker: $ITW
Headquarters: Glenview, Illinois
Founded: 1912
CEO since: 2024
Index: S&P 500 (#245 of 500)