Ashok Rupshi Shah has vast experience across different sectors.
1987 ARS started his career in the IT business. In those days no one was knew computer, that’s when ARS saw the computer for the first time and his vision was ‘Computer is The Future’; than he also diversified into several other businesses:
- Abacus Computer Systems Limited: which dealt in the sale of computer hardware, software development (developed a payroll software for the local market known as Paymaster) and after sale service, repair and maintenance of all computer equipment and technologies. Later, it became an internet service provider which was known as Futurenet.
- Dhara Wholesalers Limited: In the business of supplying of hardware and building materials.
- Abacus Pharma Africa Limited: A company that manufactures and imports pharmaceutical products and is currently well known in the entire East African region. It operates in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.
- Abacus Industries Limited: A company that manufactured electrical cables.
In the year 2002 when President Kibaki came in power ARS’s Vision changed and he diversified into Real Estate.
ARS then introduced several other companies in the same field of Real Estate & Development:
- Abacus Property Consultants Limited: A property management and consultancy company.
- Greenspan Developers Limited: A development company that constructed a total of 350,000 Sq. Ft. of warehouses on 12 Acre plots in 2 phases in Babadogo, Ruaraka. The site is now known as Abacus Complex.
- Summermount Holdings Limited: This Company was formed to hold a property asset (7 acres in Lavington posh area of Nairobi) with an intent to build a luxury housing estate. Current market value of this property is Ksh. 1.75 Billion
- Sky Mall Limited: An 85,000 Sq. Ft., 5 storey Shopping Mall with 60 car parks located in Parklands, Nairobi. This shopping mall is located in a crowded residential area, which increases the income generating capacity of the project.
ARS has spent almost two decades in industrial development where he developed and sold a number of industrial properties.
Recently ARS developed Abacus Complex. A development company that constructed a total of 350,000 Sq. Ft. of warehouses on 12 Acre plots in 2 phases in Babadogo, Ruaraka. The site is now known as Abacus Complex.
