Sumit Mazumder, Chairman and Managing Director, Tractors India Pvt. Ltd (TIL), has been elected as the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2015-16. He is also the Executive Chairman of TIPL. He succeeds Mr Ajay Shriram as the new President.
TIL is the manufacturer of India's largest range of material handling equipment in technical collaboration with world leaders, such as Manitowoc Crane Group, Hyster, Astec Industries, and Paceco Corp in USA and Mitsui Miike Machinery Co in Japan.
A graduate of St Xavier's College, Calcutta, Mazumder earned a Master's in Business Administration from Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA and undertook the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA.
Dr Naushad Forbes, Director, Forbes Marshall, has become the President-designate of CII for the year 2015-16. Forbes Marshall is India's leading Steam Engineering and Control Instrumentation firm.
Forbes has been a Lecturer and Consulting Professor at Stanford University in the Program in Science, Technology and Society from 1987 to 2004. He developed courses in Technology and Policy as well the Management of Technology in Firms in Newly Industrialized Countries. He has written widely on innovation in developing countries and higher education in India and co-authored the book, ‘From Followers to Leaders', with David Wield. He has received his Bachelors, Masters and PhD Degrees from Stanford University.
Dr Forbes is on the Advisory Council of IIT Bombay; Board of Directors of Godrej Industries, Kirloskar Oil Engines and Jump Associates, California; Governing Council of National Institute of Design and India Design Council; Trustee of Ruby Hall Clinic.
He has held several positions within the CII. He has remained the Chairman of the CII National Committee on Higher Education for the past two years, Chairman of the National Innovation Council 2012-13 and 2011-12, Chairman of the CII Western Region (2009-10), and Chairman of the CII Maharashtra State Council and CII Pune Zonal Council.
Shobana Kamineni, Executive Vice-Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Limited (AHEL) has been elected Vice-President of CII for the year 2015-16.
Championing Special Initiatives for over 7 years, Ms Kamineni had directed the company's diversification into several new domains, all of which have been largely responsible for Apollo's emergence as Asia's foremost integrated healthcare organization.
She holds a B.A. in Economics from Stella Maris College, Chennai and an accelerated Diploma in Hospital Administration from Columbia University, New York.
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