Leadership Team | Our Team | Management and Board (2025)

Mr Manoj Gupta, Chairman of MKU Limited is credited with turning his family owned multi-business organization into a world class conglomerate. Today he heads the ‘GKG Group’ a diverse and versatile group of companies with units including Defence and Aerospace, Infrastructure and Construction. A thorough family man, great orator, practical and worldly-wise, he enjoys golf, swimming and squash.

As Chairman of MKU Limited, Mr Manoj Gupta is credited with turning his family owned multi-business organization into a world class conglomerate. Today, MKU business portfolio covers Personal Protection, Platform Protection and Electro Optics with a strong workforce of over 500 employees working across three manufacturing plants in India, one each in UAE and Germany, the company exports to more than 100+ countries.

Today he heads the ‘GKG Group’ a diverse and versatile group of companies with a vision to become large and global players. The group comprises of 8 manufacturing units which service sectors including Defence and Aerospace, Infrastructure and Construction

Mr Monoj Gupta is also the person responsible for all the success of the group company AR Thermosets Pvt Ltd, a road technology and services company which has remained at the forefront of the Indian road construction industry. Under Mr. Gupta’s mentorship ART became one of the pioneers in the adoption and aggregation of the advanced and eco-friendly cold mix technology for sustainable road maintenance and construction in India

Mr Gupta is Chairman of Aerospace & Defence Committee of CII NR and was the Vice Chairman of Roads & Highway Committee of ASSOCHAM. A true son of the soil, he remains committed to the state and to bring in the best manufacturing practices and establish world class manufacturing facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India.

A thorough family man, great orator, practical and worldly-wise, he enjoys golf, swimming and squash. A firm believer in giving back to the society, he has been inst0rumental in creating a vision and direction for CSR activities within the group particularly in the field of education, healthcare and environment

A people’s person, a keen observer, and a great networker Mr Neeraj Gupta is constantly exploring newer ideas and horizons for growing the business. His constant quest for expansion and innovation has seen the company diversify into aerospace components and state of art electro-optics division. He was instrumental in MKU’s foray into the armour business which he has successfully taken to over 100 countries. When he is not leading MKU into the future, he likes to travel, explore next gen technologies and read.

Mr Neeraj Gupta is a passionate entrepreneur with a hands-on approach to developing and scaling the business Internationally. A people’s person, a keen observer, and a great networker he is constantly exploring newer ideas and horizons for growing the business.

He was instrumental in MKU’s foray into the armour business which he has successfully taken to over 100 countries. He personally supervised the successful acquisition and merger of a German armour company to diversify into armouring of land, air and naval platforms. MKU is today, one of the leading names in personal and platform armouring globally.

His constant quest for expansion and innovation has seen the company diversify into aerospace components and state of art electro-optics, where the technology for the latter was completely developed in-house from grounds-up. It today competes successfully with the leading names globally.

He strongly believes in and is committed to his vision of transforming MKU into a global defence manufacturing brand from India.

When he is not leading MKU into the future, he likes to travel, explore next gen technologies and read.

Mr Sumit Khandelwal, Director Operations MKU Ltd is heading the Armour Business Operations. His rich experience of 3 decades in managing technical operations and manufacturing value-added specialty armour products helped MKU become the leader in the Armour industry within a short span of time. Mr Khandelwal is also leading EIS Electronics Business Unit, as ‘Managing Director’; one of the other prominent GKG group company.

Sumit Khandelwal’s 3 decades of rich experience and expertise in managing technical operations and manufacturing value-added specialty armour products were instrumental in establishing MKU operations, inculcating a culture of excellence, with high standards of governance. During his initial stage of career, he joined AR Polymers (group company of MKU) footwear unit and achieved grabbing a big order of footwear from defense and delivered in short span of time.

After achieving the first big order he set the other products of defense production and entire Supply Chain Management of MKU armour business.

He handled different portfolios in MKU and now Sumit Khandelwal as Director Operations heading the MKUs Armour Business Operations and advising other functions for smooth working in the organization with additional responsibility of ‘Managing Director’ of EIS Electronics Business Unit.

Donning multiple hats, shuttling between roles and responsibilities as a Business leader, Innovator and Tech Lead within the organization Mr Manish Khandelwal is the man behind introducing most of ground-breaking products from house of MKU. He is proficiently leading the MKU in-house research wing for last 25 years.

Manish’s 25 years of Armour product research experience with MKU he is involved in Innovating, experimenting and evolving cutting-edge new products in and around soldiers' protection has seen him through some groundbreaking products which were far ahead of their time. INSTAVEST being one such example, which with its unique and patented quick release system makes it stand out among other contemporary products.

Donning multiple hats, shuttling between roles and responsibilities as a Business Manager, Innovator and Tech Lead within the organization he has developed excellent skill sets vis-a-vis Techno-Commercial domain.

He has developed a vest which is the most advanced Quick Release vest for which patent has already been granted from US and Germany.

As a Business Manager, Application Developer, and Project Manager in a wide variety of business applications he has done many challenging projects. Particularly interested in designing using newer materials. Always interested in accepting challenges, as well as close interaction with the technical people.

An angel investor, a technology enthusiast Prachi, is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Electro Optics Business Division. Prachi Gupta a BE (Systems Engineering) from University of Warwick, UK is passionately managing the division of electro-optics and is resolute to deliver niche & cutting-edge solutions for the global defence sector with indigenous technology.

Prachi is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Electro Optics Business Division. She has the versatile experience working with Ernst & Young & EIS Electronics where she implemented systems & procedures to executing marketing strategies and now managing the division of electro-optics who provides niche & cutting-edge technology to the defence sector with a goal is to have the complete range of high-end electro optic products for soldier systems.

She is also an angel investor and a technology enthusiast. She loves to research on the new technology & applications on Defence Products.

Prachi is BE (Systems Engineering) from University of Warwick, UK

Karan is steering the corporate strategy and new business development for MKU ltd. An Electrical Engineer from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, Mr Karan Gupta is seizing MKU to the next level by being instrumental in creating a culture of operational excellence throughout the organization with a core focus on customer centricity. He is leading the internal Process Improvement, Automation, Sales & Marketing for MKU.

Karan is the Vice President - Strategy and New Business Development in MKU Group. After completing his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts, United States he worked as intern in Northeastern University and then Electrical Engineering Coop in SharkNinja, Boston, MA.

After returning to India he started working in MKU and worked in different assignment on R&D, Sales & Marketing, ERP, Process Improvement, Automation with focused on moving organization to a technology & process driven organization to meet & sustain in competitive and cutting-edge technology environment.

Mr karan Gupta is instrumental in creating a culture of operational excellence throughout the organization with a core focus on customer centricity. He is additionally heading the groups investments in next gen technology, capability upgradation, and corporate collaborations.