The Group Chairman

Mr Brij Mohan Lall Munjal is the Chairman of the US$ 2.2 billion Hero Group. Born in 1923, in what is now Pakistan, Mr Lall is a first generation business entrepreneur of the 1950s'. After partition, the Munjal brothers started a small business of manufacturing bicycle components in Ludhiana in North India in the face of the bottlenecks of industrial infrastructure and investments.

Mr. Lall has enriched the Hero Group with his vision of sound business governance and value driven management practices.His foresight has made the Hero Group a leader in its business. The Group companies have been honored with the best industrial governance and safety awards.

Mr Lall is actively involved in the promotion of the Indian Industry. He is the past president of CII, SIAM and a member of the Regional Board of the Reserve Bank of India. He is Honorary Fellow of the Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering. He was adjudged as Businessman of the year in 1994 by a leading business magazine - Business India. XLRI, a premier institution has conferred on him the honor of Sir Jehangir Ghandy Medal for Industrial Peace in 2000.

Mr. Sunil Kant Munjal, the second generation entrepreneur of the Munjal family is a senior member of the Hero Group. Mr Sunil Kant Munjal, is the Managing Director & CEO of Hero Cycles Ltd. (C.R.Division) and Hero Corporate Service Limited, the services business arm of the Hero Group. In addition he also holds the responsibility as a Director of a number of companies in the US$ 2.2 Billion Hero Group which consists of Hero Cycles Ltd., Hero Honda Motors Ltd., Munjal Showa Ltd., Sunbeam Auto Ltd., Majestic Auto Ltd., Munjal Auto Industries Ltd., Hero Management Service Limited, Easy Bill Ltd., etc. Apart from Hero Group companies, he is also on the Board of DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd., PNB Gilts Limited and Member of Coca Cola India – Advisory Board. He has also been a Director of Bank of India (one of the largest banks in the country). Mr. Munjal is the President of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), which is India’s premier business association. Mr Munjal is a visiting faculty for lectures in business studies and holistic management practices at a number of companies and business schools. He is also on the Board of Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Mr. Munjal has also made significant contributions to some of the National level Economic and Labour reforms in India by either chairing some of the reforms committees or as a member. 

He was:

1.	Member of the second Narsimham Committee on Banking and Financial sector reforms in India as also the Member of a Committee formed under the Chairmanship of Governor-Reserve Bank of India on “Role of Board of Directors of Banks and Financial Institutions”
2.	Member of Task Force on Indirect Taxes (Vijay Kelkar Committee) for Tax Reforms.
3.	Chairman of the Study Group on Skill Development, Training and Workers’ Education constituted under the Second National Commission on Labour Reforms.
4.	Member of the Northern Regional Advisory Committee of the Industrial Development Bank of India.
5.	Past Chairman, CII, Northern Region
6.	Chairman, CII, Economic Affairs Committee

The management strives for the upliftment of the communities and villages around the factories. The Munjals have set up various medical, educational and infrastructure facilities and actively lead national business associations.