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PURPLE’s Core Management Team

The Management Team comprises of 50+ professionals from diverse domains and are well qualified and experienced to handle the day to day operations.

The explosive growth warranted induction of professionals with proven track records to carry forward, consolidate and charter the new horizons of growth in the following years.

Prasanna Patwardhan (Chairman & Managing Director)

Shri Prasanna Patwardhan the current Chairman & Managing Director, has been instrumental in not only consolidating the group activities, but also taking the group to its next growth orbit.

Such exponential growth has been accomplished through his Visionary Business acumen and the respect that he commands within the business fraternity. Mr. Patwardhan is a science graduate with professional management education.

In sports he was the captain of Maharashtra team and was member of national Basket ball team.

Mrs. Monica Patwardhan (Director)

Mrs. Monica Patwardhan heads our holiday vertical. She had toured all the places in India and abroad and her rich experience helps to design smart itinerary and tour plans.She loves to discover new destination & new attraction in old destination which gives us an upper edge for “Smart Itinerary”.

Mr. Parag Khandekar

Mr. Parag Khandekar is the Chief Financial Officer at Purple. He is a Chartered Accountant, ACMA (UK), CGMA (UK), IFRS Certified (UK) and CPA (Australia). He has held General Manager - Finance, controller, planning, compliance, audit and other strategic decision making positions in companies in automobile, real estate, public accounting, market research industries & has expertise in strategic decision making, financial planning, fund management, restructuring, private equity, Venture Capital financing & risk management. He has a successful track record of precociously achieving business objectives in highly competitive environments.

Mr. Rohit Pardeshi

Mr. Rohit Pardeshi is working as a COO of Intercity vertical. He has a very rich experience in this domain with in-depth knowledge on fleet machinery, route planning, maintenance etc. He is associated with this group for past 15 years and is integral part of growth and development of the organization.

Mr. Ravindra More

Mr. Ravindra More is working as GM of Intercity. His association with this organization is for the past 25 years.He handles day to day operation & management of this vertical. When he joined the organization, the company had 2 buses and today it has increased to 50 buses for Intercity vertical.

Col Nikhil Vaidya (Retd)

Col Nikhil Vaidya is working as GM  of City Bus Operations. He has over two decades of experience from the Indian Army in designing and implementing strategic and operational plans at multi locational, regional and Greenfield Project levels, in addition to managing  large scale human resources and  vehicle fleets. He has business qualification from IIM Bangalore as also professional qualifications on Defence Financial Planning, Senior Defence Management and Transport Management. He handles pan India operations of City Bus vertical.

Col. Randhir Deshmukh (Retd)

Col. Randhir Deshmukh is working as GM HR & Admin. He has 22 years of rich
experience in the field of Human Resources, Training, Security & Disaster management.
He deeply believes in the fact  that a rich human resource creates a vibrant and responsive organization.

He is a  graduate from National Defense Academy of Khadakwasla (Pune) & has done his Post Graduation from Defense Services  Staff College also has a post graduate diploma in HR from Symbiosis, Pune.

Mr. Mazhar Shaikh

Mr. Mazhar Shaikh is working as GM Holiday Vertical. He is a Commerce Graduate with a MBA in Marketing & Diploma in Travel & Tourism, from University of Mumbai. In his past experience of 15 years, he has handled & lead teams in all departments of the Tours business.

Additionally the senior management includes professionals heading each domain vertical like Procurement, Engineering, IT as well as General Managers at all business units across each region.

Purple Offerings
City Bus

We undertake Public Transport projects under PPP initiative taken by Central Government

Inter City Bus

City to City Super Luxury air-conditioned coach services, strong presence in Maharashtra & ne...

Bus Tours

We operate tours by luxury coach. It includes tours to beaches, hill stations, forts and pilgrima...

Holidays

We offer great holiday packages to individual, families and groups in India & abroad

MICE

Corporate tours where we customized solutions for various MICE

HOHO

India's first Hop on Hop off sightseeing tour service which we have launched in association with ...

Rentals

Car and Bus hire service for individual / corporate. We are committed to provide timely and effic...

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