Our story

We were the students on the other side of the wall.

Green Chillis did not start as a business plan. It started as a problem nobody was solving well.

Your institution and your team on the ground, standing on the same earth with hands joined.
  1. The beginning

    A market full of intermediaries, empty of accountability

    Across India and Southeast Asia, families were making one of the largest financial decisions of their lives on the advice of agents paid per enrolment. Universities abroad had no way to see what was being said in their name. Good institutions lost to whoever paid the highest commission, and students paid for the mismatch with years of their lives.

  2. The insight

    Distance was the real adversary

    The problem was never the market. It was distance. An institution ten thousand kilometres away cannot correct a misrepresentation it never hears, cannot attend a fair it does not know about, and cannot build trust through a third party whose incentives point elsewhere. Presence was the missing variable.

  3. The decision

    Build the team, not the agency

    We could have built another agency. Instead we built the thing institutions actually needed: a team that works for one university at a time, under that university's name, answerable to that university alone. A legal structure, a physical office and local staff — without the partner carrying the burden of a foreign entity.

  4. Today

    From Paris to Bangkok

    Green Chillis now represents institutions across Europe and Asia from a Bengaluru directorate, covering South and Southeast Asia. The model has not changed since the first engagement: one accountable contract, one dedicated team, one institution's interests.

What we believe

  • Education should flow freely across bordersEvery capable student deserves a clear path to the opportunities they seek. Administrative borders should never decide who gets an education.
  • Representation is not intermediationWe do not sit between an institution and its market. We are the institution, in that market. That distinction governs how we hire, contract and report.
  • Success is not just numbersYour name, your reputation and your student experience are the things actually at stake. They must be protected, and numbers alone do not protect them.
Where we operate

Two regions, one directorate

Operations are directed from Bengaluru and run across both of the markets that matter for international recruitment out of Asia.

South Asia

  • India
  • Sri Lanka
  • Nepal
  • Bangladesh

Southeast Asia

  • Thailand
  • Vietnam
  • Indonesia
  • Malaysia
  • the Philippines

A brand built ahead of time, trusted and recognized across South and Southeast Asia.

Because our experience makes your entry seamless.

  • Rahul Reddy

    Chief Executive Officer

    • DirectorateBengaluru
    • e-maildirector@greenchillis.com
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  • Nandini Bhaskar

    Chief Operating Officer

    • DirectorateBengaluru
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  • Jonathan P. Boucard

    Chief Business Officer

    • DirectorateBengaluru
    • e-mailjp.boucard@greenchillis.com
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  • Anisha Subash

    Chief Marketing Officer

    • DirectorateBengaluru

Now let's talk about your institution.

That is the whole point of the story — it stops being ours the moment you engage.

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