Kathmandu Shapers

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 and manages share services for over 600,000 clients. Shivanth is also the co-founder and current chairman of MNepal a social venture initiated to facilitate banks and microfinance companies extend outreach of financial products to the unbanked poor, both urban and rural. He helped to co found ICRA Nepal, the first credit rating company in Nepal. Shivanth's family is a controlling stake holder in Nepal Investment Bank, the largest private bank by capital base. Shivanth has served as a youth advisor to the United Nations Nepal mission for 3 years helping review youth and gender participation in the country programs. He is also a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization, Nepalese Young Entreprenuers Foundation, SYEF and a Global Shaper Alumni

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 founder and Chairman of Aakash Capital Ltd (ACL), a public company and certified Merchant Bank by SEBON (Securities Exchange Board of Nepal). ACL provides Portfolio Management, PE placements, underwriting, listing (IPO/FPO) in NEPSE (Nepal Stock Market). Ankur is also leading Aakash Foods, a packaged foods manufacturing, distribution and fast-food restaurant chain in Nepal. Ankur graduated from Bentley University in Boston, where he pursued his BSc. in Finance (2010), and Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at the McCallum Graduate School of Business. As an undergraduate student, Ankur initiated a fundraiser campaign (Project H2O) in 2009 with the objective to provide safe drinking water in Nepal. To raise funds for Project H2O, he collaborated with Microsoft and Liberty Mutual with a series of fundraiser activities in Boston. In partnership with UN HABITAT, Ankur used the funds raised through Project H2O to build pipelines and access to safe drinking water for over 250 families in a village in Lalitpur. With the success of the Project H2O campaign; Ankur formed a student body in Bentley University with the purpose of sustainable future fundraising activities for various causes. Project Haiti was the first campaign initiated by this student group to help the victims of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Ankur moved to Nepal after the earthquake of 2015.

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 IFIs, BFIs, Bilateral & Multi-lateral agencies, along with non-profits and government. As the MD of Rana Global, she currently provides business development strategy support to international firms who are looking to establish and expand their businesses in Nepal. She is the sole manager to oversee production, design and manufacturing of pashmina and knitwear through her company Rana Collections. The company is also involved in real-estate development, renewable energy and banking sector. Aashmi was the only participant from Nepal in the International Women Leadership-Mentoring Program that was jointly organized by the US State Government and Fortune 500 Most Powerful Women in May 2007 in USA. Bringing back her experience from the program, she successfully conducted a similar Mentorship Walk jointly with US Embassy in Nepal. She has been working on various mentorship programs for women empowerment through We for Women. Aashmi was a part of the Advisory Council for the Ministry of Industry in 2017, strategically guiding the leadership. Further, she serves on the Board for Shahid Gangalal Hospital, the best cardiac center in the country. She was also a national council member of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries and lead the women’s group in CNI. In addition, she’s on the Executive Committee for the Nepal Britain Chamber of Commerce. She is currently an Advisory Council member of the British College. She's the global chair for G100 wing overseeing Partnerships & Collaborations, and VP of the Management Association of Nepal. She completed her MBA from the University of Southampton in the UK, and has worked in diverse fields from banking, industry, women’s empowerment and youth development. In 2008, the World Economic Forum, recognized Aashmi as the first Young Global Leader, and till date she is the only female YGL in Nepal. She has invested her network and resources in post-disaster relief and reconstruction in Nepal through both the Young Global Leaders community and the Global Shapers Community Kathmandu, of which she is the Founding Curator.

Founding Curator

Aashmi Rajya Lakshmi Rana

Alumni

Shivanth Pande

Amod Rajbhandari

Sneh Rajbhandari

Kaushal Silwal

Riken Maharjan

Lokesh Todi

Shiwani Neupane

Surath Giri

Sachet Manandhar

Gaurav Kandel

Arpit Agarwal

Harsh Sanghai

Ankur Agarwal

Avinash Jha

Hitman Gurung

Kessang W Lama

Mridula Saria

Naviya Kafle

Pushpa Basnet

Rajneesh Bhandary

Sadikchya Singh

Sangye Dekyi Sherpa

Shivani Basnet

Shristi Mishra

Utsav Shakya

Vidhan Rana

Anne McGuinness