Debjani Ghosh takes charge as new MAIT President

Information technology hardware industry body, MAIT (the Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology) has appointed Debjani Ghosh, vice-president sales and marketing group and managing director of Intel Corporation, South Asia, as the new President. She is the first woman President of MAIT in its 32 years of history. She succeeds Amar Babu, chief operation officer at Lenovo, Asia Pacific and chairman, Lenovo India.

The appoinment was made during the 32nd Annual General Meeting. Ghosh, who has been working with Intel for more than 19 years, was ranked among the 25 Most Powerful Women by Fortune India in 2013.

Ghosh played a key role in setting up Intel’s education programme for the Asia Pacific region. Apart from MAIT, she also chairs the IT Committee at the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

“Digital India is not the government’s job alone and the industry must contribute toward sits successful realisation. MAIT is in a unique position to drive collaboration in the areas of electronic manufacturing, home-grown R&D as well as Design in India in order to fulfill the Make in India dream and realise the Digital India vision. I look forward to driving key agendas for MAIT that will strengthen its unique position as the apex IT hardware body in India,” said Ghosh.