Kanwaljeet Jawa, CEO & Managing Director of Daikin Air-conditioning India Pvt. Ltd. (DAIPL) has been appointed to the board of Daikin Industries Limited, Japan. He is the first Indian on this board and will be part of the ten member board council that underscores the vision and mission at Daikin. Confirming the board seat, Toshio Nakano, Chairman DIT and DAIPL said, “Mr. Jawa has been the Change Agent for Daikin India’s turnaround since 2010, and we are happy to promote him and bestow additional
responsibilities that mirror Daikin’s vision and goals going forward.”

Kanwaljeet Jawa joined Daikin India in 2010 as the COO and later emerged as the MD & CEO who transformed an engineering company to a full scale HVAC organisation powered by a local R&D facility, Japan Institute of Manufacturing Excellence (JIM) and a 40 acre HVAC manufacturing facility in Rajasthan.