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Pawan Munjal

India 71 years old

Overview

Source of Wealth
Motorcycles
Industry
Automotive
Residence
Delhi
Marital Status
Married
Children
3

Assets

  • Hero MotoCorp
    24,047,000 shares @ -
    -
    500182-IN

Biography

Pawan Munjal is the chairman and managing director of Hero MotoCorp,the world's largest producer of two-wheelers by volume having sold more than 120 million units to date.

He inherited a stake in the Hero group after his father Brijmohan Lall Munjal, who cofounded the enterprise with his brothers, died in 2015 at age 92.

A former partner of Honda, Hero MotoCorp parted ways with the Japanese company in 2011. Since then Pawan has led a global expansion with factories in Colombia and Bangladesh.

The group's renewable energy arm, Hero Future Energies, along with U.S. private equity firm KKR, is investing $450 million in expanding capacity.

About

In 2022, Hero launched Vida, its first electric scooter.

In 2023, the Delhi High Court stayed a federal investigation into allegations that he took money out of the country illegally. He's denied any wrongdoing.