Kathmandu Shapers

Endowment fund

Global Shapers Kathmandu Hub Endowment Fund was launched to empower Nepali youth to successfully scale up projects that deliver change in our community. The grant based fund is utilized based on Hub Charter Financial procedures and we maintain full transparency by providing funding partners with quarterly and annual action reports.

Fund Contributors:

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Saloni Sethia

Harsh Sanghai

Riken Maharjan

Sneh Rajbhandari

Lokesh Todi

Shivanth Pande

Saloni Sethia

Saloni is the Curator of the Kathmandu Hub. She is the Executive Director at M.A.W. Music, which operates the largest musical instruments and audio equipment store of the country and makes high-quality and difficult-to-find audio equipment available in Nepal. Her company also specialises in designing & installations for audio visual systems & is also the only company in Nepal to do this. She hosts a podcast Unheard with Saloni where she interviews successful women in Nepal. She is passionate about fitness, travelling & hiking.

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 member of the World Economic Forum, Regional Stewardship Board for South Asia where she is part of the working group focused on Accelerating Digital Transformation for Education & SMEs; a Board Member of the Duke of Edinburgh International Award Nepal, and an Advisory Member of the Nepal Economic Forum. She initiated her professional career in the development sector, as the Programs Manager and Co-Founder of INCLUDED, a non-profit working to provide education and social services to internal migrant families living in slums and squatter settlements. She has experience working at the grassroot level on issues related to urban poverty, and working on issues related to Public Affairs & Communications for an MNC and a non-profit education foundation. She is interested in issues related to strategic communications, sustainability, public-private partnership, increasing participation of women in the workforce and leveraging technology for positive impact in the community and business. She is a graduate from the London School of Economics with an MSc focused in Development Management.

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 to various government organizations and Fortune 500 firms such as Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Bank of America, JP Morgan, Toyota, British Petroleum, and the Israeli Finance Ministry. Lokesh received his MBA degree from Yale University where he was an Emerging Entrepreneurship Fellow. He received his BA degree from Colby College where he was awarded the prestigious Baker Scholarship and graduated the school with magna cum laude honors with a distinction in Economics and Political Science in 2009. He was part of the Global Shapers Kathamandu Hub from 2014-2019 and served as the curator in 2018. Lokesh represented Kathmandu Hub in Davos in Jan 2016 and in the India Economic Summit in 2017.

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