{"id":1018551,"date":"2026-07-03T07:47:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018551"},"modified":"2026-07-03T07:53:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:23:54","slug":"mait-elects-hpe-indias-bhawna-agarwal-as-president-ibms-sandip-patel-as-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/03\/mait-elects-hpe-indias-bhawna-agarwal-as-president-ibms-sandip-patel-as-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"MAIT elects HPE India&#8217;s Bhawna Agarwal as President, IBM&#8217;s Sandip Patel as VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Manufacturers&#8217; Association for Information Technology (MAIT) has elected Bhawna Agarwal, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) India, as its new President for the 2026-28 term. <\/p>\n<p>Agarwal succeeds outgoing President Amrit Jiwan, MAIT said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The apex industry body for IT and electronics manufacturing also announced the election of Sandip Patel, Managing Director of IBM India and South Asia, as Vice President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Manufacturers&#8217; Association for Information Technology (MAIT) has elected Bhawna Agarwal, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) India, as its new President for the 2026-28 term. Agarwal succeeds outgoing President Amrit Jiwan, MAIT said in a statement. The apex industry body for IT and electronics manufacturing also announced the election of Sandip Patel, Managing Director of IBM India and South Asia, as Vice President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018572,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018551\/revisions\/1018572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}