Alpa is a developmental professional with more than 2 decades of work experience. She holds a Masters in Social Work from Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai University and an Executive MBA from IIM Kozhikode. She started her career as a Programme Coordinator with World Vision of India, was the National Programme Head with Concern India Foundation and prior to joining Magic Bus, was with Sonrisas de Bombay, a Spanish organization as the Executive Director.

Alpa's skills are in Programme Design and Implementation, Donor Management and Servicing, NGO Due Diligence and Empanelment and Grants Partnership Management.

Alpa is a nature and wildlife lover, extremely passionate about travel especially road trips and is a foodie, addicted to regional cuisines.

Anuj has 16 years of diverse experience in high-growth sectors like Aviation, Supply Chain & Logistics Management, and Vocational Education & Training (VET). He is well networked with the Central and State level Government, Ministries & International Agencies, as well as professionals and bodies like MoRD, MSDE, MHRD, MoMA, MHA, NSDC, SSCs, State Skill Missions, World Bank, ADB, CII, FICCI, NABCONS, NIRD, etc. 

He has worked with Don Bosco Tech Society as Chief Strategy Officer and also worked as Chief Operating Officer with Safeducate Learning Pvt. Ltd. (a Training, Skilling & Consulting arm of Safexpress Group)

Arun has more than 38 years of experience. He has worked in corporates for 30 years at senior management positions, in India. Arun’s last assignment was in Accor as Country Manager, India where he scaled up the organization into a large player in the loyalty space.

Arun shifted to Magic Bus 5 years ago with a sense of giving back to the society and used his strong understanding of building and managing partnerships to build robust and large-scale collaborations between Magic Bus and Industries. Arun is a resident of Mumbai, India and regular in the speaker circuit in the Social Sector. Arun has attended Harvard Business School Spin program.

Monika has over 22 years of experience in the entire gamut of Human Resources, of which 6 years has been in the leadership role. She has experience in working with ITES, IT, Language, Technical Writing, Fintech and Engineering industry.

A hands on professional with experience in Employee Life Cycle Management, talent acquisition, on-boarding, talent management, manpower planning, HR budgeting, payroll and compensation, performance management, Organization design, competency framework, succession planning, learning and development, process design, system development, health and welfare benefits, employee relation & retention and strategic HR.

Monika's last employment was with Ingenico Group as Director - Human Resources and prior to Ingenico, she has worked with US multinational Lionbridge Technologies, Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro and Onida Finance.

Nikhil has over 15 years of consulting experience in driving business strategy and leading transformation programs for 40+ corporate clients across Automotive, Engineering, Industrial products, Consumer products and Healthcare sectors. Prior to joining Magic Bus, Nikhil worked with EY, KPMG, PwC and ECS Limited across a variety of competencies such as Operations Excellence, Lean Supply Chain, Strategic cost reduction and Working Capital Efficiency.

Nikhil is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from VJTI - Mumbai University and holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Ahmedabad.

Nikhil is an avid fitness enthusiast and enjoys yoga, cycling and running. He is also a black belt in martial arts.

Sharmila is a communications professional specialising in brand building in the development sector. She has twenty-six years of experience and has managed a gamut of brands in the FMCG sector like Pantene, Whisper, Borosil during her stint in Advertising at Grey Worldwide, Enterprise, Speer. In the last 10 years, prior to Magic Bus, she has worked at the K C Mahindra Education Trust on Project Nanhi Kali, Mission For Vision and Child Rights and You (CRY).

She is a graduate in Economics and Political Science from Mumbai University, with a Diploma in Advertising and Marketing from Xavier’s Institute of Communication, Mumbai. With her first love being for her huge and extended family, her next few loves are travel and food.

Aniket has completed his graduation in Chemistry from Mumbai University. He has 16 years of work experience in the field of Operations Management, Strategic Planning & Business Development, Client Relationship Management, Customer Service, Training and Recruitment. Aniket’s most recent employment was with Quality Application Solutions Pvt Ltd (APPCO) as General Manager, he was associate with them for over 7 years. Prior to Quality Application Solutions, he has worked with organizations like Stream Global Services (Hewlett Packard) and Wipro BPO. At Magic Bus, Aniket will head the Retail Team and will help define the roadmap for our Individual Fundraising vertical.

Sandhya’s areas of expertise are in HIV AIDS, education, health, livelihood training and research, communications, establishing strategic partnerships with Government and non-Government bodies. 
She is a Graduate in Economics from Kolkata. Prior to Magic Bus, she was associated with International HIV/AIDS Alliance as the Director – AD & KM.

Dhanashri is a postgraduate from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She has more than 24 years of rich experience in gender and rights based programming as well as in the areas of health, micro-finance and adolescent empowerment, at the grassroots, in the government and with the UN alike.

Dhanashri’s recent employment was with United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), as National Programme Specialist, Gender. She was responsible for leading overall programme coordination with specific focus on gender and rights portfolio management that also included government and partner management. Prior to UNFPA, she has worked with the World Bank and IFAD assisted Swa-Shakti Project in association with the Ministry of Women & Child Development, Govt. of India. As an individual consultant she has worked with clients such as South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude and Seva Mandir, Udaipur. The latter also being her first exposure to grassroots development, helping to build a keen sense of programming with an eye to ground realities.