PKPartha Khare
Boarding passPK 2026 · Priority
Portrait of Partha KharePassenger

Passenger name

Partha Khare

I can't walk into a place without wondering how it makes money.

From

DSN

Design

To

BIZ

Business

Gate
Masters' Union
Seat
1A, window
Bound for
Strategy | Founder's Office | Product Management

Departures

Four projects, now boarding

  1. The orange facade of Felice All Day Dining at dusk, with its owl sign lit

    PK 001

    Hospitality · Pune

    A backyard café redesigned around the guests who actually pay, then scaled to four storeys.

    2.5x capacity

    Boarding

  2. Exam questions drawn as coloured blocks, sorted into five types with one approach each

    PK 002

    Education · Pune

    Ten years of exam papers turned into a new way to teach design-entrance aptitude.

    +43% qualification

    Boarding

  3. Dashboard and phone screens from the Wizz pediatric health system

    PK 003

    Health tech · UX

    A kid's health band, a doctor's dashboard and a parent's app, built for faster consultations.

    30% faster consultations (projected)

    Boarding

  4. A wall of phone screens from the Leafish plant gifting app

    PK 004

    Consumer · UX

    Two people, two plants, one shared journal: a plant becomes a gift worth showing off.

    Plant gifting, made social

    Boarding

About me

I am Partha, an MBA student at Masters' Union with a background in design from NMIMS. My training taught me to study how people actually behave. My work taught me to turn that into decisions a business can act on.

What I do well

  1. Finding the real problem.

    I go to where the work happens, watch, and check what I see against data. At one client, this showed that the customers driving most of the revenue were not the ones the founders were targeting.

  2. Redesigning how things run.

    I build the process, the roles, the SOPs and the training, not just the recommendation. I led the operations design for a new outlet that scaled capacity 2.5x.

  3. Getting results people can measure.

    34% higher average order value. 43% higher exam qualification rate. ₹2.17 Lakhs revenue from a business I started and ran myself.

  4. Working across people.

    Founders, kitchen staff, students, sales leadership. I have had to convince all of them, sometimes against what they first believed.

Guess the aircraft

A plane goes over the house. I guess the type, then check the app. Your turn.

Four engines and two full decks of windows.

Round 1 of 5

In-flight menu

What I'm made of

To start

Food, and the people who serve it

A lifelong foodie who reads a café the way others read a menu, down to the bag hook under the table.

Main course

Fixing how things work

The part of the job I would happily do every day: walking into something that is not working, figuring out why, and leaving behind a system that runs without me.

On the side

Tennis

About 14 years on court. Still my favourite sport to play and to watch.

Chef's special

Tabla

Seven-plus years of training, and a First-Class Distinction.

Dessert

Marathi theatre, music and film

And a little piano, when nobody is listening.

2.5x

capacity scale-up I designed for

34%

increase in average order value

43%

lift in exam qualification rate

200+

students mentored

I am looking for roles where I sit close to the decision makers and own problems end to end.

Past flights

Pune to Mumbai to Dubai and back, and now Gurugram.

PuneHome baseMumbaiDesign schoolDubaiInternshipGurugramBusiness school

  1. 2026 to present

    PGP in Technology & Business Management

    Masters' Union

    Details
    • Young Leaders Cohort. Awarded the Manoj Kohli Merit-based Scholarship.
    • Elected Vice-President of the Hospitality & Food Career Club, in a batch of 450+ students.
    • Finalist, Pepperfry Consumer Behaviour One-Day Challenge (2026).

    Gurugram

  2. Jul to Aug 2026

    Dropshipping business

    Aavo

    Details
    • Generated ₹2.17 Lakhs revenue in 2.5 months selling home decor products across online and offline channels.
    • Secured a 90+ unit B2B corporate gifting order through cold outreach and referral-based lead generation.
    • Built a partner network of 8 suppliers to maintain product variety and order fulfillment.

  3. Jul to Dec 2025

    Service Design Consultant

    Felice All Day Dining

    Details
    • Led the end-to-end operational redesign of the new outlet and trained staff on the new service model.

    See the Felice project

    Pune

  4. Apr 2025 to Apr 2026

    Design Education Consultant & Mentor

    Gurumantra Academics

    Details
    • Rebuilt the Part A curriculum and exam strategy for 200+ design-entrance students.

    See the Gurumantra project

    Pune

  5. Nov 2024 to Mar 2025

    Business Development Executive

    Universal Marketing and Consultancy (UMC)

    Details
    • Narrowed market entry focus to 2 potential product categories by mapping 59 buyer brands in the South African market.
    • Shaped market entry strategy by presenting benchmarked recommendations to leadership.
    • Standardised 24 products across 4 categories into 5 client-ready decks.

    Dubai

  6. May to Oct 2024

    Service Design Consultant

    Felice Pasticceria

    Details
    • Shadowed 180 customer interactions and redesigned the menu and key customer touchpoints.

    See the Felice project

    Pune

  7. Jun 2023

    Design Researcher & UX Designer

    Jnana Prabodhini Harali

    Details
    • Redesigned the NGO's Wix website, with an information architecture to improve donor credibility and accessibility.
    • Trained school administrators to manage the website content on their own.

    Social impact

  8. 2021 to 2025

    Bachelor in Design, Humanizing Technology

    NMIMS School of Design

    Details
    • CGPA 3.34/4.
    • Class Representative (2021).

    Mumbai

  9. 2021

    UCEED, top 10% nationwide

    Design entrance exam for IIT

    Details
    • Qualified UCEED, ranking among the top 10% of candidates nationwide.

  10. 2018 to 2021

    School

    Dr. Shamarao Kalmadi and Millennium National School

    Details
    • HSC Class XII, 86.5%. CBSE Class X, 91.8%.
    • Class Representative at Millennium National School across two consecutive years.
    • Tennis: Schoolympics Boys' Doubles quarter-finalist and ZP District level (2018).
    • Tabla: First-Class Distinction in Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya examinations, through 7+ years of training.

    Pune