Aashmi Rajya Lakshmi Rana
Aashmi Rana is currently a Senior Advisor for KPMG in India for the Nepal Corridor Program. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Rana Global Pvt. Ltd, a public relations management consultancy firm that helps clients solve issues, create value, maximize growth and improve business performance. The profile of clients she works with include […]
Amod Rajbhandari
Amod is currently the Chief Investment Officer of the Mercantile Group of Companies. After having studied and travelled extensively all over the world, Amod has developed a multinational perspective on economics, politics, entrepreneurship, and relationship development. He is currently overseeing Mercantile’s investments in areas crucial to Nepal’s economic advancement, namely, Financial Services, Energy and Infrastructure, […]
Ankur Agarwal
Ankur Agrawal is the managing director of Aakash Group, Nepal. Among the group’s verticals, Food and Beverages (F&B), Information Technology (IT) and Merchant Banking (MB) are under his direct leadership. Ankur is the founder and CEO of Aakash Labs, a data mining & digital marketing services company based out of Kathmandu, Nepal. He is the […]
Anne McGuinness
Director at The WE United Project.
Arpit Agarwal
Arpit Agrawal is the Executive Director of Vishal Group, one of the biggest South Asian conglomerates, dedicated to building better lives across Nepal. Arpit drives the FMCG vertical for VG, which reaches every household in Nepal and sells 1.3 million SKUs per day. He also spearheads the VG Foundation, the group’s private operating charity that […]
Avinash Jha
Avinash leads a parallel career as an educator and an engineer. As an Education Director of non-profit United World Schools, he leads education development across 52 community-based schools in rural Nepal. The organization is providing quality education to over 8000 children. An alumnus of the U.S. Department of States International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), he […]
Ayush Man Tamrakar
Ayush is a determined individual working in the telecommunications industry of Nepal. He has served as the President of the KCM Student Council. He was a Microsoft Student Partner. He is also an avid Toastmasters. He loves art, technology and adventure.
Gaurav Kandel
One of the Founding members of Kathmandu Hub Gaurav Kandel has been currently engaged in his family businesses in Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare and Hospitality. Been actively engaged as a Program Project Consultant for several national & international organizations is well known for his youth activism since his teenage. Having contributed to the UN Youth & Student […]
Lokesh Todi
Lokesh Todi manages the operation of Yeti Polychem and Yeti Carpet at Reliance Group Nepal. He is also the founding Chairman of Nepal’s largest Private Equity company Avasar Equity. Prior to working at Reliance Group, Lokesh was a Senior Analyst at Analysis Group in Boston where he provided his economic expertise in litigation related cases […]
Harsh Sanghai
Harsh currently serves as a Director for Triveni Group, a well diversified business conglomerate in Nepal. He is primarily involved in the construction of two hydro power projects with a combined capacity of 134MW located in the eastern part of the Country. His main responsibities include managing the Social Impact of the projects, and has […]
Hitman Gurung
Hit Man Gurung is an artist based in Kathmandu. Gurung’s works are concerned with some of the most pressing socio-political issues of Nepal, including internal and international mass migration, the legacy of the decade-long Maoist insurgency in the country, as well as the recent pervasive effects of global capitalism in Nepal. Deeply concerned with the […]
Kaushal Silwal
Mridula Saria
Educationist Parenting Coach Co-founder of Grooming Tales. I spend most of my time studying and researching on child behavior and development. I aim to practice and preach the best methods for children to learn and thrive. My purpose is to help bring out the best in children, while ensuring that they love the process of […]
Kessang W Lama
Operational Information Management & Performance Reporting Officer at UN World Food Programme.
Naviya Kafle
Naviya Kafle is a researcher in the field of Environment and Public Health. After graduating with from college in 2017, she worked at a leading cancer hospital and research institute in New York City co-ordinating clinical trials in thoracic cancers for 3 years. She moved back to Nepal in 2020, soon after which she conducted […]
Rajneesh Bhandary
Global Multimedia Journalist | Filmmaker | Investigations Editor | Fulbright Humphrey Fellow
Riken Maharjan
Riken Maharjan is the CEO of RB Diamond Jewellers and a director at RB Group. He is a graduate Gemologist working as an advisor to the Department of Mines and Geology of Nepal. He holds a Guinness world record for the “Highest Altitude Fashion show on land”. Riken is passionate about youth in sports and […]
Sachet Manandhar
An active learner, Sachet is an engineer turned educator working towards introducing a hands on approach to education. Currently, serving as the Chief Operating Officer his organization, Karkhana, he works with middle school students to prepare them for the imminent Fourth Industrial Revolution. Before co-founding Karkhana with his colleagues, Sachet was involved in the group […]
Sadikchya Singh
Sadikchya Singh is currently working as the Coordinator of Himalayan Circular Economy Forum at Nepal Economic Forum. She previously coordinated Himalayan Consensus Summit, a multi stakeholder event convening leaders across the Himalayan region to forge solutions to the contemporary development issues. She has also worked in increasing the media literacy and capacity of Nepal with […]
Sangye Dekyi Sherpa
“Sangye Dekyi Sherpa is a director Hotel Mulberry Pvt. Ltd., a luxury hotel at the heart of Kathmandu with 67 rooms and one of the first full service lifestyle hotels in Nepal. She is the director of finance at the hotel and involved in the strategic planning of the hotel. She has an under graduate […]
Shivani Basnet
Under Secretary at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nepal
Shivanth Pande
Shivanth is currently the founding CEO of NIBL Ace Capital, one of the first fully fledged investment banks in Nepal, He was the youngest CEO in the financial sector in Nepal. NIBL Ace Capital provides corporate finance, bond and equity finance, and advisory. NIBL Ace Capital also provides Mutual funds management and Portfolio management services […]
Shiwani Neupane
Shiwani Neupane is an entrepreneur and writer. Shiwani founded and worked in a financial-technology company called Lenden for several years before it was acquired in November 2021. She has eight years of business experience, working most of the time in her family owned business group – Ambe Group. At the moment she is working on […]
Shristi Mishra
Ms. Shristi Mishra is the Education and Governance Officer at IIDS with seven years’ experience in education development, including five years in research, monitoring and evaluation of education projects. Prior to joining IIDS, she worked as a Management Analyst at the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), D.C.’s state-level education agency, where she […]
Sneh Rajbhandari
Sneh Rajbhandari is the Communications Director at Curves n’ Colors, a private company working in the nexus of art, design and technology to optimize online presence for organizations in diverse sectors. She became the Curator for the Hub in 2015, where she co-led the largest project of the hub to date. She is currently a […]
Surath Giri
Utsav Shakya
Utsav heads the communications team at the British embassy in Kathmandu. He is interested in startups, social media culture and digital tech. In his downtime, he can be found enjoying a good Nepali coffee, reading his favorite newspapers and magazines and planning his next trip outside of Kathmandu.
Vidhan Rana
Vidhan Rana is an Entrepreneur and Researcher with experience in launching multiple enterprises and social initiatives. He started his professional career working as a research analyst at Whittaker Associates, an economic development consulting firm based in the United States. At Whittaker, he provided guidance and support to economic development agencies at state and local level […]
