Amrit Jiwan elected as new MAIT president
Amrit Jiwan, general counsel and senior director, Canon India as its president.
The industry association representing top IT hardware brands have also appointed Sanjay Lodha and Bhawna Agarwal as vice presidents.
Lodha is the chairman and managing director, Netweb Technologies. Agarwal heads strategy and growth, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
With this move, MAIT’s past President (2022-24) Rajkumar Rishi, VP & MD — CSB, India, Dell International Services India Pvt Ltd, the immediate past President, will continue as President Emeritus.
Nitin Kunkolienker, the former President Emeritus, will continue to support MAIT's initiatives as the Mentor, the association said in a statement.
«As an Industry association, our priority would be to encourage domestic manufacturing of IT hardware components and finished products through policy advocacy and collaboration with GoI. Besides, MAIT will align itself with the New National Policy on Electronics (NPE-2024) which is currently in the making and MAIT has already given its suggestions. EoDB & Certainty/Stability in Tax Structuring stands high in our list of priorities,» Jiwan said.
Jiwan brings on board a rich experience of 30 years. He has managed corporate functions such as legal, secretarial, tax, compliance, QEHS, product regulatory, and government affairs.
As General Counsel & Senior Director at Canon India Private Ltd., he oversees legal, tax, product regulatory, and quality functions. His expertise includes contract management, legal risk mitigation, litigation,
