With over 30 years of automotive business expertise, Tarun Garg brings the best experience to guide HMIL’s second part of development in India, the corporate stated. |Picture courtesy: Particular Association
Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) on Thursday (January 1, 2026) introduced that Tarun Garg has been appointed as Managing Director and Chief Government Officer (MD and CEO).
This makes him the primary Indian to carry this management position inside HMIL because the firm’s inception 29 years in the past.
Garg has over 30 years of automotive expertise and brings the best experience to guide HMIL’s second part of development in India, the corporate stated.
“The Indian automotive business is at an thrilling inflection level, pushed by innovation, sustainability and evolving buyer aspirations. It’s a nice honor to guide Hyundai Motor India at this defining second in our 30-year lengthy journey,” Garg stated in an announcement.
“My imaginative and prescient is to construct on a powerful basis whereas accelerating HMIL’s transformation in the direction of sustainable development, technological management and unparalleled buyer satisfaction. We’ll proceed to strengthen our dedication to ‘Make in India’ and place HMIL as a world export hub,” he stated.
“According to Hyundai’s international imaginative and prescient of ‘Human Progress,’ we’ll strengthen Hyundai’s heritage to create significant mobility options that not solely empower folks, but additionally join communities and enrich lives. The long run is ours to construct, and I’m dedicated to main HMIL with agility, perception and goal,” he added.
Garg’s management will concentrate on 4 key pillars, together with future-ready methods; Give attention to folks and markets: Empowering workers and strengthening the HMIL seller and provider community. Buyer-centric strategy: Deepening belief and offering a seamless expertise throughout all HMIL touchpoints, Make in India, Made for the World Driving drive: Strengthening indigenization throughout HMIL factories and positioning HMIL as an export hub for rising markets.
“Mr. Garg’s tenure at HMIL, first underneath his stewardship as Head of Gross sales, Providers and Advertising and marketing after which as Entire-Time Director and Chief Working Officer, has formed his significant contribution to steadily advance the corporate’s development and course,” the corporate stated.
HMIL has delivered three consecutive years of document gross sales, achieved document profitability and EBITDA margins, and efficiently executed the biggest IPO within the historical past of the Indian inventory market in 2024, whereas driving management within the SUV section by specializing in profitability, buyer expertise and digitalization, it added.
“Past enterprise metrics, Mr. Garg embodies people-first management and group impression. His inclusive imaginative and prescient led to the launch of Samarth by Hyundai, which promotes incapacity consciousness and accessibility in India. Identified for his humility and purpose-driven management, he’s carefully aligned with Hyundai Motor Group’s international imaginative and prescient of human progress.”
Previous to becoming a member of HMIL, Mr. Garg labored at Maruti Suzuki India the place he held senior positions and was promoted to Government Director, Advertising and marketing, Logistics, Elements and Equipment.
Academically, he’s a mechanical engineer from Delhi Institute of Know-how (previously often known as Delhi Institute of Know-how) and holds an MBA from IIM Lucknow.
