Srihari Mulgund Appointed Chief Strategy Officer at Hero MotoCorp
Hero MotoCorp has appointed Srihari Mulgund as Chief Strategy Officer, effective 17 August 2026. He joins the company's Leadership Team and is designated Senior Management under the SEBI Listing Regulations.
- New role: Chief Strategy Officer, Hero MotoCorp, from 17 August 2026
- Joins the Leadership Team, classified Senior Management under SEBI Listing Regulations
- Previous role: Partner, EY-Parthenon
- Earlier: President, Ricardo Strategic Consulting India; roles at Aisin AW and FEV Inc.
- Over 24 years across engineering, product development and strategy planning in the global automotive sector, with work in the USA, Japan, China and India
Srihari Mulgund, The Engineer Who Became A Strategist
The shape of Mulgund's career is worth reading closely. Aisin AW and FEV are engineering companies, one a Japanese transmission maker and the other a powertrain development house. Ricardo Strategic Consulting and EY-Parthenon are advisory firms. He has moved from building the mechanical parts of vehicles to advising on which vehicles get built at all.
At EY-Parthenon he led engagements across electric vehicles, batteries, internal combustion engines, the supply value chain and new mobility. That is the exact set of decisions a two-wheeler maker is making right now, and the reason a chief strategy officer with a powertrain background is a different hire from one with a pure finance or consulting background.
Four Markets, Which Is The Real Credential
He has worked across the USA, Japan, China and India. For an Indian two-wheeler manufacturer this is not a decorative line on a CV. China's electric two-wheeler transition happened years ahead of India's and ran through a completely different set of constraints, subsidies and battery supply arrangements. Japan is where the manufacturing discipline that Hero's category runs on was written.
The SEBI Designation
The disclosure that Mulgund is designated Senior Management under the SEBI Listing Regulations is a formality worth noticing rather than skipping. It means the appointment is a matter of public record and disclosure rather than an internal reshuffle, and that the strategy seat is being treated as material to shareholders.
For a listed manufacturer in the middle of a powertrain transition, that is a reasonable signal of how much weight the role is meant to carry.
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