Sumit Mazumder elected as new President of CII for year 2015-16
Sumit Mazumder was elected as the President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for the year 2015-16. He is Chairman & Managing Director (MD) of TIL Limited. He will succeed Ajay Shriram, Chairman of DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd. Moreover, Shobana Kamineni was elected as Vice-President of CII for the year 2015-16. Presently, she is Executive Vice-Chairperson of Apollo Hospitals Enterprises Limited (AHEL). Dr Naushad Forbes is the President-designate of CII for the year 2015-16. He is Director of Forbes Marshall.
About Sumit Mazumder Mazumder is a graduate of St Xavier’s College, Calcutta and holds MBA from Sam Houston State University, US. He also has undertaken the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA. At present he is also the Executive Chairman of TIPL (Tractors India Pvt. Ltd.), distributor Company for Caterpillar. In the past years, Mazumder was an active member of CII and had chaired its various Committees and Councils. He also had served as President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Director on the Board of West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC).
