Sohinder Gill
CEO- Global Business, HERO ECO Director – Corporate Affairs, SMEV (Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles),
Sohinder Gill
Sohinder Gill is the Chief Executive Officer – Global Business for HERO ECO, a diversified conglomeratewith global business interests in Electric Vehicles, Exports, Bicycles, Healthcare, and Real Estate.Additionally, he is the Director – Corporate Affairs of the Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles(SMEV), the only global representative body of the Indian Electric Vehicles Industry.An alumnus of Delhi College of Engineering with a Mechanical Engineering degree and a Businessmangement qualifiaction , he started his career with Larsen & Toubro in the Aerospace division and waspart of the team development the Statellite Lauching Vehicle for Indian Space Research Organisation. Asa Strategic thinker with keen interest in Business Process Re-engineering , New Product Development hehas worked in all major functions of leading organization like HERO HONDA , ESCORTS, YAMAHA, L&Tand JK Group. With an overall professional experience of 35 years out of which more than 25 years havebeen in the Automotive Industry, he sensed the opportunity in the field of Electric Vehicles and JoinedHERO ECO in 2008HERO ECO Group has scaled new heights to become the market leader in the Electric Two WheelerIndustry in India. He took up the challenge of becoming amongst the first one to carve a niche in thisinnovative segment.As a strategic thinker, he spearheaded the global acquisition of the popular Electric Two Wheeler brandsof Ultra Motors worldwide A2B by HERO ECO Group. With this acquisition, the Group now has one ofthe largest range of Electric Two Wheelers globally.He took the initiative to form the SOCIETY of MANUFACTURERS of ELECTRIC VEHICLES (SMEV) in NewDelhi, in order to provide a common platform for promotion, development and advancement of theinterest of EV Manufacturers and other key stakeholders contributing to the category in India andabroad. He has worked closely with the Govt for the formulation of NEMMP 2020 that has a target of 5million EVs on Indian roads by 2020.