Prasanth is a regional business leader with over two decades of combined experience in strategic business consulting and new market development. He works with China Europe International Business School – Africa as a Consultant. He has had stints at Founders Factory Africa as the Commercial Partnerships Director and at MEST Africa as Director of Consultancy, where his focus areas were strategic consulting for Entrepreneurship Initiatives (Conceptualization, Design, and Implementation of Business Incubator, Accelerator, and Capacity Development programs), Software & digital consultancy practice. He has successfully secured and implemented projects from UNICEF, GIZ Ghana ( Make IT & SI Jobs), GFA Consulting, AFDB, IFC, Finance in Motion, and the European Union. He was also successful in securing technology-related work for the consulting practice in Ghana and was able to integrate a few of the MEST Portfolio companies with Corporates for Strategic Partnerships. Prior to MEST, he worked for Dial Technologies in Morocco heading International Business Development. Apart from his stint with Dial Technologies, during his 4 1/2years in Morocco, He has taught at SIST British University( Cardiff Met Affiliate) for MBA & Undergrad programs. He also formerly inhabited C-level positions at Axon and Vectramind Corporation in the Middle East. He is a Business Development Advisor for Bluecrest University & Open Labs in Ghana, Sales Advisor for LeadSquared Inc, and Market Expansion Advisor for Loconav.  He sits on the advisory board for BTL Africa, Chamber for Tourism Ghana.

He is a Mechanical Engineer with a Post-Graduation from the Indian Institute of Management- Kozhikode. He has done Executive Education programs at Harvard Business School (Risk Management for Corporate Leaders) and Harvard Law School (Negotiation & Leadership).

Expertise: Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Sales, New market development, Strategic Management