Spring Alumni Spotlights: Ben Driggs & Wesley Warshawer
Benjamin Driggs
W.A. Franke Honors College Alumni of the Year, 2025-26
Benjamin Driggs is the Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer for Phoenix-based Honeywell Aerospace, a global leader in advanced aviation and defense technologies and systems. In this role, he leads strategy, mergers and acquisitions, venture investments, and all commercial functions including sales excellence, marketing, pricing and innovation.
Throughout his 20-year career with Honeywell, Ben has been recognized for transformational growth leadership, launching new technologies and forging strategic partnerships across the aviation, energy, logistics and smart infrastructure sectors. He has served in executive roles spanning four continents, including president and CEO of Honeywell’s High Growth Regions and president of the company’s Connected Aircraft and Aerospace Americas businesses.
Prior to joining Honeywell, Ben was an associate principal at global management and consulting giant McKinsey & Company. There, he advised global industrial clients on strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and operational transformation.
Ben earned a bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Arizona in 1996 and a master’s degree from Oxford University, where he was a Swanson Scholar. While at UofA, Ben served as student body president and was awarded the Nugent Medal, the university’s top undergraduate honor. In 2014, he received the university’s Spirit of Inquiry Award.
Deeply committed to education and community impact, Ben supports scholarships for first-generation college students and former foster youth. In 2025, he and his wife established the Ben and Andrea Driggs Honors Travel Quest Endowment to provide expanded travel research opportunities for W.A. Franke Honors College students.
Additionally, Ben has served as a mentor in various career advancement programs with Honeywell, the Flinn Foundation, and the Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ben is also on the Board of the Partnership for Economic Innovation (PEI), a group promoting innovation in Arizona.
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Wesley Warshawer
W.A. Franke Honors College Young Alumni of the Year, 2025-26
Wesley Warshawer is a supply chain and operations professional at Lam Research—a semiconductor equipment and technology company—in San Jose, California. He has experience working at the intersection of Operations, Analytics, and Project Management to solve big problems by diagnosing root causes through an international perspective. Wesley is dedicated to process optimization through collaboration. He works with data visualization and analytics tools to present the right data to the right person at the right time.
Before moving to Silicon Valley, he was a U.S. Fulbright Recipient in South Korea for two years, where he received a Master’s in Global Economy and Strategy from Yonsei University in Seoul. He has spent significant time overseas, including two years in South Korea, 3+ months in India, 5+ months in China, 3+ months in East Africa, one year in South America, and 6 weeks working at a semiconductor facility in the Philippines.
Before his Master’s program, he worked as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Implementation Consultant and Project Manager. He traveled to engineering and manufacturing companies around the US to effectively streamline their supply chain and implement long-lasting IT solutions. He collaborated with the CEO, CFO, CIO, and other department heads to discuss their ERP system requirements based on their unique business needs. His job did not confine him to a particular department but rather allowed him to follow all corporate processes.
Wesley graduated Summa Cum Laude with Honors from the University of Arizona Eller School of Business with degrees in Management Information Systems (MIS), Operations Management, and Entrepreneurship. While at the U of A, Wesley won the McCord Scholarship to study for a semester in India and the Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS) to study in South Korea for a summer.
Wesley is APICS CPIM certified, a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, PMP Certified, and Scrum Alliance CSM certified. He also volunteers on the Young Professional Committee of the Association of Supply Chain Management (ASCM) and has volunteered as a Mentor for the University of Arizona Honors College. He also served as a Board Member for the Big Data Program at California State University, East Bay.