Independent advisory · GCC & India

Go-to-market & expansion advisory
for EdTech and SaaS founders.

12+ years building, selling, and scaling across UAE, Saudi, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and India — at BYJU'S and as founder of GoScore Learning. GTM, office setup from zero, partnerships, and local guidance for founders entering the region.

By the numbers

  • 12+ yrs

    Operating across GCC & India

  • 6 mkts

    UAE · KSA · Kuwait · Qatar · Oman · Bahrain

  • #1 GCC

    Revenue rank at BYJU'S, 6 months running

01 — Services

How I help founders win in the region.

GCC Expansion & Market Entry

A clear-eyed read on all six GCC markets plus India: which country to enter first, regulatory posture, buying cycles, and a 90-day landing plan you can execute.

  • Country prioritization across UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain & India
  • Regulatory map (KHDA, ADEK, MoE, SDAIA, CBSE)
  • Entity, hiring, and banking setup playbook

Office Setup From Zero

Stand up a fully operational regional office without burning a year on it. Entity formation, licensing, banking, hiring the first five, office space, payroll and PRO — done in parallel.

  • Mainland vs Freezone entity design
  • Licensing, visas, banking and PRO orchestration
  • First-five hiring, payroll, and ops stack

SaaS Product GTM

Position, package, and price your SaaS product for GCC and Indian buyers. From PLG motion to enterprise land-and-expand, built around the workflows local teams actually run.

  • Pricing & packaging for AED / SAR / INR markets
  • Self-serve, sales-led, or hybrid motion design
  • Onboarding, activation, and retention playbooks

ICP & Positioning

Tighten who you sell to and how you say it. We rebuild your ICP for each market's buyer realities — schools, parents, ministries, enterprises — and rewrite positioning to match.

  • Buyer interviews across GCC & India
  • Pricing & packaging by market
  • Messaging that lands in Arabic-first and Indian contexts

Channel & Partnerships

Distribution is the moat. I open doors to retail, telco, super-app, school-group, and SI partnerships that compress your CAC and shortcut years of relationship building.

  • Retail, telco, and super-app bundle structuring
  • School-group, ministry, and SI partnership design
  • Channel economics and commission models

Local Guidance & Fractional Leadership

On-the-ground advisory for founders who don't yet have a regional leader. Cultural context, government and partner introductions, and a sounding board through every weekly decision.

  • Weekly working sessions with the founder/CRO
  • Warm intros to school groups, retailers, telcos, ministries
  • Optional fractional Country Head engagements

Revenue Playbooks

Repeatable B2B and B2C motion built around your product — counselor scripts, demo flows, CRM cadence, KPI dashboards. The same systems behind #1 GCC revenue at BYJU'S.

  • B2C admissions & counseling playbook
  • B2B enterprise and school sales motion
  • Operating cadence & KPI dashboards

India ↔ GCC Bridge

For Indian founders heading to the Gulf, or GCC operators tapping into Indian talent and tech. I sit on both sides of the corridor and run the playbook end-to-end.

  • India → GCC launch sprints
  • GCC → India offshore team & vendor setup
  • Cross-border pricing, billing, and compliance

02 — Approach

Diagnose. Design. Deploy.

Strategy notebook, pen, espresso and business strategy diagram on a marble desk
A written diagnosis before a single decision

01

Diagnose

Two weeks of buyer interviews, pipeline review, and competitive teardown. You get a written diagnosis of where revenue is actually leaking — and where the next AED 5M comes from.

02

Design

We co-build the GTM plan: ICP, pricing, channel mix, hiring sequence, 90-day milestones. Nothing generic — every artifact is shaped to your product and your runway.

03

Deploy

I work inside your team — sales standups, partner pitches, hiring panels — until the motion is live and your team owns it. Engagements run 8–16 weeks, fixed scope, fixed fee.

03 — Track record

Numbers from the work.

AED 5M+

Revenue generated in one quarter via a single retail partnership (BYJU'S × Lulu)

15,000+

Qualified leads produced through one channel program across the GCC

#1

GCC revenue rank held for 6 consecutive months at BYJU'S

AED 600K

MRR built launching BYJU'S Abu Dhabi from zero with a team of four

150%

YoY enrollment growth founding GoScore Learning in Kuwait

40+

Person operation built from a blank page with proprietary LMS + ERP

04 — About

Why work with me.

Amaldas Geetha Haridas — Founder, Amal Haridas Advisory

Amaldas Geetha Haridas

Ex CEO & Founder · GoScore Learning

I'm Amaldas Geetha Haridas — an independent consultant helping international companies set up offices and operations across the GCC and new markets, and a specialist advisor for EdTech go-to-market. Over 12+ years on the ground in the region, I've handled the unglamorous parts of market entry: entity setup, licensing, hiring the first local team, finding the right channel partners, and building a revenue engine that actually holds.

On the market entry side, I help founders and leadership teams land cleanly in the UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain — choosing the right jurisdiction and structure, sequencing the first 90 days, recruiting locally credible talent, and translating the global playbook into something that works with regional buyers, regulators, and culture.

On the EdTech GTM side, I bring the experience of two complementary chapters. Six years at BYJU'S GCC, rising from BDE to Senior Manager leading Kuwait and Abu Dhabi — #1 GCC revenue rank for six consecutive months, Abu Dhabi launched from zero to AED 600K MRR, and the BYJU'S × Lulu retail channel that delivered 15,000+ leads and AED 5M+ revenue in a single quarter. Then founding and running GoScore Learning as CEO in Kuwait — a 40+ person operation with a proprietary multitenant LMS + ERP platform, full P&L ownership, 150% YoY enrollment growth, and multimillion-dirham revenue built from a blank page.

That combination — having lived the zero-to-one founder journey and scaled inside a global unicorn — is what I bring to every engagement. I've sat on both sides of the table: building from scratch and scaling inside a global company, in a region where execution beats theory.

I take on a small number of advisory engagements at a time — because the only way this work compounds is to stay close to the details and the founders.

Based in

Kuwait · open to relocate or remote

Practice

GCC & new-market entry · EdTech GTM advisory

Engagements

2 active clients at a time

Sectors

EdTech, K12, test prep, vocational, B2B SaaS, LMS/ERP

Geographies

UAE · KSA · Kuwait · Qatar · Oman · Bahrain · India

Languages

English, Hindi, Malayalam, Arabic (working)

Experience

Nov 2022 — Apr 2026

Founder & CEO

GoScore Learning, Kuwait

Built a 40+ person EdTech operation from a blank page. Architected a proprietary multitenant LMS + ERP. Full P&L ownership, 150% YoY enrollment growth, multimillion-dirham revenue.

Apr 2020 — Nov 2022

Senior Manager, GCC

BYJU'S, Kuwait & Abu Dhabi

Owned regional revenue across UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain. Spearheaded the BYJU'S × Lulu partnership — 15,000+ leads and AED 5M+ revenue in one quarter. #1 GCC revenue rank for 6 consecutive months.

Feb 2019 — Apr 2020

Senior Team Lead, GCC

BYJU'S, Kuwait

Managed conversion across schools, coaching centers, and online channels. Ran sales training and coaching tracks for counselors and BDEs.

Feb 2018 — Feb 2019

Senior Team Lead — Abu Dhabi Launch

BYJU'S, Abu Dhabi

Handpicked to launch Abu Dhabi from zero. Scaled to AED 600K MRR within months with a team of four. Authored the GCC sales & counseling playbook used by later launch teams.

Oct 2016 — Feb 2018

BDE → Team Lead, GCC

BYJU'S, Dubai

Top revenue generator across the GCC for 6 consecutive months. Built institutional partnerships with schools, universities, and certification providers.

Jun 2015 — Jul 2016

Cofounder & Center Head

Mastermind Education, Doha

Cofounded a CBSE & IGCSE coaching center for Classes 6–12. Owned admissions, curriculum, hiring, and operations end-to-end.

Education & Credentials

Dec 2025 — Dec 2026

Professional Certificate in Strategic Management

IIM Kozhikode (Pursuing)

Competitive & Corporate Strategy, Digital Transformation, AI & GenAI Strategy, Strategy Execution.

2012 — 2014

M.Tech, VLSI Design

University of Calicut

2008 — 2012

B.E., Electronics & Communication

PSNA College of Engineering & Technology

Who do you work with?

EdTech founders and revenue leaders with a working product and at least one paying market — planning a GCC launch, or stuck on the way from $1M to $10M in the region.

What does an engagement cost?

Discovery sprints are fixed-fee (2 weeks). Full GTM engagements run 8–16 weeks on a fixed monthly retainer. Equity-for-advisory considered for pre-Series A teams.

Do you take operating roles?

Selectively — as a fractional Country Head or CRO for one company at a time, after a discovery engagement. Otherwise I stay advisory.

Which countries do you cover?

Primary: UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar. Secondary: Oman, Bahrain. I've personally sold or built operations in all six.

04 — Projects

Selected projects.

GoScore Learning LMS analytics dashboard

EdTech Platform

GoScore Learning LMS + ERP

Designed and shipped a multitenant LMS and ERP platform with role-based access, audit trails, KPI dashboards, and API surfaces for institutional integration.

View case study
Family shopping in a Lulu hypermarket aisle

Partner Channel

BYJU'S × Lulu Program

Architected a strategic retail partnership across the GCC that produced 15,000+ qualified leads and AED 5M+ in revenue within a single quarter.

Read the story
Dubai and Abu Dhabi skyline representing GCC market expansion

Market Launch

BYJU'S Dubai, Abu Dhabi & Kuwait — Zero to Scale

Pioneered BYJU'S market entry across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Kuwait — building local teams, establishing center operations, and architecting the GCC sales and counseling playbook from zero. Scaled each market to sustained revenue with lean, high-performing teams.

See the playbook
Three modern GoScore learning centers in Kuwait at golden hour

Center Expansion · Kuwait

Zero to 3 Centers

Built GoScore Middle East from a single site into a three-center operation across Kuwait — rebuilding the BDE team, demo funnel, and pricing engine to compound revenue and closure year on year (FY2023 → FY2025).

Enrollments · 2024 YoY
+131%
Enrollments · 2025 YoY
+40%
Realized revenue · 2024 YoY
+199%
Realized revenue · 2025 YoY
+66%
Closure rate · 2024 YoY
+25.6 pp
Closure rate · 2025 YoY
+11.9 pp
Demo conduction · 2024 YoY
+1.2 pp
Demo conduction · 2025 YoY
+25.7 pp
ASV · 2024 YoY
+30%
ASV · 2025 YoY
+16%
CAC · 2024 YoY
−59%
CAC · 2025 YoY
−31%
See the numbers

05 — In the press

News.

The Times Kuwait — GoScore Kuwait to Offer Best Quality Education to Children

The Times Kuwait · 26 Mar – 01 Apr 2023

GoScore Kuwait to Offer Best Quality Education to Children

Coverage of the GoScore Learning launch event in Kuwait, where I shared the company's mission to make high-quality, affordable education accessible to every student — built on social responsibility, a value-led team, and a purpose-driven approach to EdTech in the region.

"We believe in investing in social causes as opposed to influencer marketing. We aim to create a positive influence in society, through initiatives like the book exchange event." — Amal G Haridas

06 — Get in touch

Let's see if there's a fit.

Book a 30-minute discovery call. Tell me about your product and where you want to be in the GCC in 12 months. If we're a fit, I'll send a one-page engagement proposal within 48 hours.

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