Tarun Mehta

Tarun Mehta graduated from IIT Madras in 2012 with a dual degree in engineering design, where he and Swapnil Jain worked on research projects together and became interested in why electric two-wheeler battery packs degraded so quickly. He joined Ashok Leyland after graduating and left in 2013 to work on packs full time.

Mehta co-founded Ather Energy in 2013 and has been chief executive throughout. He insisted on designing the battery pack, motor controller, chassis and vehicle software in house rather than assembling imported components, which delayed Ather's first commercial revenue to FY2019 but gave it a platform it could update over the air. He launched the Ather 450 alongside the company's own fast-charging network in 2018, widened the range with the Rizta in 2024 and the Konarc in 2026, and took Ather public on the NSE and BSE in May 2025. Tarun Mehta was born in 1989/1990.