Alankit Limited announced that at the Annual General Meeting held on 29th September, 2022, approved the change in designation of Dr. Mathew Thomas from Additional Independent Director to Independent Director. Appointed for a period of 1 year with effect from 10 August, 2022. Dr. Mathew Thomas, aged 64 years, holds Bachelors in Science from Kakatiya University and LLB and LLM from Andhra University.

He is PHD in Intellectual Property Rights. He has done Advanced Certification in CPD(WIPO), ACPS(WIPO), Ethics of AI (University of Helsinki). Dr. Mathew Thomas was former law faculty in Damodaran Sanjivaya National Law University, Vishakhapatnam.

He has also served Indian Army from 1981 to 2003. He is a consultant in WIPO (Green Roster). Part of two member Study team on `Restructuring Meghalaya Legislative assembly', 2010.

He has taught-IPR to students of BA, LLB(Hons) law course at DSNLU and also Law and Business Communication to the students of Indian Institute of Management, Shillong. He was also Chief Administrative Officer, Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, with additional responsibility to teach Law and Business Communication. He is Multi-lingual proficiency in Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, English and French.

He has also represented the state of Andhra Pradesh in National level Athletics.