Hero MotoCorp, manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters has announced the appointment of Dr. Arun Jaura as Chief Technology Officer. He will report directly to Dr. Pawan Munjal, Chairman, and CEO, Hero MotoCorp.
According to the company statement, Dr. Arun Jaura, an accomplished engineering and technology expert with considerable experience of over four decades in global markets across multiple continents, has been appointed as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the extensive Research & Development (R&D) ecosystem of the company.
Before joining Hero MotoCorp, Dr. Jaura was the Managing Director of Michelin India Technology Center since 2017, where he managed the R&D and the sustainability functions, and also represented the Michelin Pune site of more than 1100 engineers and technologists.
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He started his career with DRDO (Defense Research and Development Organization) in 1982 where he spent a decade developing servo & electrohydraulic weapon systems as well as hydro-pneumatic suspension systems for battle tanks besides working on subsystems of the Combat aircrafts. He moved to Canada in 1992 to pursue a Ph.D. focused on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Smart manufacturing.
In 1996, he joined Ford Motor Co in Dearborn, USA where he managed several Hybrid technology pilot programs. He also led and developed the world’s first ever Hydrogen-Hybrid vehicle working in partnership with the Department of Energy in the US.
In 2005, Dr. Jaura returned to India to join Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) as Senior Vice President – Product Development for Automotive Sector and subsequently as the CTO.
In his next assignment as Head of the Engineering Center for Eaton Corporation in Pune, he grew the capability and competency of the technical center while managing activities, and relationships with Eaton’s Industrial global business locations and eventually became Vice President (Technology).
He has also had an entrepreneurial stint as well where he established TRAKTION, a mobility-focused consulting company in 2013.
Dr. Jaura is an M Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1989-1991) and a Ph.D. from Concordia University (1992-1996), Montreal.
