Prabeesh Chambeth

Entrepreneur and business consultant, Kerala

Bring me the problem that’s stuck.

A licence that won’t come through. An office that has to open in a city you don’t know. A supplier who stopped answering. After twenty years of starting businesses and setting them up for others, I either know how to clear it or I know the person who does.

Tell me what’s happening See what I’ve built

Prabeesh Chambeth in a grey suit, listening in a meeting

What I help with

Setting up in Kerala

I convinced an Irish firm to open its back office in Kerala, led its company formation and moved its knowledge from Ireland to India. I later helped Morgan McKinley set up its office here. I can do the same for your company.

Talk to me about opening in Kerala

Compliance and approvals

Registrations, licences and the paperwork between you and opening for business. I work out what’s needed, who decides, and the order to do it in, and I bring in the right professional where one is required.

Operational problems

Processes that have stalled, teams that need structure, targets that keep slipping. I’ve run operations from the airport desk up to the managing director’s chair, and I start by finding where the work actually gets stuck.

Sourcing and suppliers

Finding, vetting and negotiating with suppliers, at home and abroad. I’ve sourced components in China for a networking-products company and managed suppliers across tourism and hospitality.

Sales and new markets

Launching a business, entering a market, or getting a sales team to hit its numbers. I launched an audio-visual company and grew hotel market share through focused marketing.

The right introduction

Sometimes the fastest fix is a person. Two decades across India and the Gulf have left me with a wide network of operators, professionals and specialists, and I make the introduction when it will save you months.

Ventures and work

Twenty years across hotels, software, tourism, audio-visual and herbal products. These are the businesses that show what I do.

  1. 2007

    Open Software Solutions, Thalassery

    Founded with my brother Pratheesh. It became Oryx System Solutions and was acquired by Contracting Plus of Ireland, the first company I persuaded to open a back office in Kerala. As project manager I led the company formation and the knowledge transfer from Ireland. In 2013 the Times of India covered that work of bringing international business to the region.

  2. 2007

    Destination Oryx

    Co-founded a tour company in Tellicherry with my friend and classmate Pradeep Raj, and ran it as CEO for sixteen years: inbound tours, houseboats, hotel bookings and itineraries across Kerala and the Malabar coast. destinationoryx.com

  3. 2012

    Morgan McKinley

    Management consultant, helping the firm set up its office in Kerala.

  4. 2016

    Rio Audio Visual

    Director of marketing. Launched a new audio-visual company in the UAE and led its marketing for seven years.

  5. 2021

    IP Technics and Aparche

    Sales and marketing consultant to IP Technics in the UAE, and from 2022 managing director of Aparche in Dubai.

  6. Now

    Ashtavidha Herbals

    My own venture in herbal and Ayurvedic products.

Earlier: hotel sales in Bangalore from 2003, then regional marketing manager at Holiday Inn; founding Networtrix in 2009, sourcing its hardware in China; and events and audio-visual sales in Dubai from 2013.

How we’d work

  1. You tell me the problem

    An email or a WhatsApp message. Say what’s stuck and what it’s costing you; no brief or deck needed.

  2. We agree what fixed looks like

    I come back with what I think is going on, what it will take, and whether I’m the right person for it.

  3. I see it through

    I do the work myself or bring in the people who should, and stay on it until it’s resolved.

Get in touch

A few lines are enough to start. I read every message myself.