Why I'm Building Chalise House
The Partner I Built Because I Needed It Myself
Over the last 18 years I’ve worn every hat in technology and business: product leader, consultant, advisor, operator, investor, and founder.
I spent more than a decade leading product teams at Fidelity and Charles Schwab, shipping solutions that millions still use today. Then I moved into consulting, working directly with enterprise leaders at Dell, LyondellBasell, Eli Lilly, Weatherford, WEC Energy Group, DTE, and Worley; designing data and AI capabilities and driving high-impact digital transformation.
While doing all of that, I was advising startup founders on the side and running my own ventures in parallel. I created Coffee Sac, a single-serve specialty coffee pouches that let you brew barista-quality coffee anywhere (no machine, no mess). I also opened Cafemandu, a Nepali-inspired restaurant right here in Dallas, Texas. I built both from the ground up: sourced beans, designed menus, managed inventory, hired teams, balanced the books, and eventually exited profitably. Those two businesses taught me more about real-world execution, margins, and people than any corporate role ever could.
For the past ten years I’ve also quietly managed my personal investment portfolio consistently beating every major market index, year after year.
Every chapter from Fortune 500, enterprise consulting, my own consumer product and restaurant, my own money kept hitting me with the exact same three bottlenecks:
You need ruthless strategic clarity (not 200-slide decks).
You need world-class people you can trust, right now, without killing margin.
You need partners willing to put real skin in the game with time, network, and capital.
No one in the market solved all three at once.
So I built the partner I wish I’d had the whole time.
Enter, Chalise House.
We bring you the same caliber of product, data, and AI strategy I delivered at Fidelity, Schwab, Dell, and Eli Lilly - just fractional, focused, and founder friendly.
We build and run offshore teams that actually feel like your own, because we obsess over vetting, transparency, and delivery.
And when we see a founder and idea we truly believe in, we invest our own money, time, and execution muscle right alongside you.
One partner for the full journey: Think clearly. Build smartly. Grow profitably.
If you want someone who’s shipped at Fidelity and Schwab, transformed enterprises at Dell and Eli Lilly, launched startups from zero to exit, beaten the market for a decade, and still answers his own email…
Let’s talk
I’ve done the hard parts the hard way so you don’t have to.
Pesh Chalise
pesh@chalisehouse.com
Founder & CEO, Chalise House