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GMSA Member Profile

KSM INVESTMENTS INC…

revolutionising the concrete products sector in Guyana
Mahadeo Panchu, Entrepreneur & Builder (Executive Chairman)

attention to every detail, he soon mastered the skills and
precision needed to succeed in the long run in the Rice
Exportation and Shipping businesses. Mahadeo had
successfully transitioned from a careerfocused academic
to a full-edged and successful entrepreneur.

Looking to make a lasting contribution to his country and
recognising the troubling deciencies in the Construction
sector in particular, the Panchu family embarked on an
investment path to radically transform the physical
landscape of Guyana and lay down a solid foundation
for future generations.

In 2015, the Panchu family opened Guyana and the
Caribbean’s rst of its kind, state-of-the-art Concrete
Products Plant at Good Hope, ECD, producing the nest
quality and high compressive strength concrete pavers,
hollow blocks, vent blocks and curbstone that were ever
produced in Guyana.

The Plant and Factory were ofcially opened in April
2017 by the Hon. Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin.

ahadeo Panchu is a born and bred Guyanese What is particularly noteworthy is that Mahadeo was the
who grew up in the rural East Coast Demerara sole supervising builder of the entire grand factory
Mfarming community of Broek-en-Waterland, De building that currently houses KSM Investments, Inc. and
Hoop, Mahaica, to parents who were typical their imposing Concrete Products Plant and the largest
hardworking rice farmers. In his early career, Mahadeo Outdoor Display for concrete products anywhere.
worked at the Guyana Cooperative Agricultural & Mahadeo personally oversees all construction efforts
Industrial Development Bank, more commonly known as and also built several buildings including his beautiful
the “Agri Bank” in the Research and Development dept. home which he shares with his lovely wife Shanta, who is
also a managing partner in their investment in KSM
A few years prior to the dissolution of the Agri Bank, Investments, Inc, and their only child, Arvind.
Mahadeo used his considerable analytical and reporting
skills pursuing a career in journalism, after which he Mahadeo and Shanta Panchu have successfully led KSM
commenced writing in the Stabroek News, but it was only within two short years of the company’s startup in
a matter of time before he would combine all the November 2015 into receiving two notable accolades:
knowledge and experience gained from his rice farm (1) Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) Gold
upbringing, his “Agri Bank” training and his journalistic Standard Award for Quality (in the medium business
endeavours and enter the burgeoning Rice Export category), and (2) the Caribbean Association of Export
market in 1994. Promotion Agencies (CAIPA) / Caribbean Export
Development Agency (CEDA) Regional Investor of the
Success in the rice export business was not easily Year Award (2016/2017).
achieved but with a mind that was trained to pay

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