Kathmandu Shapers

Saurabh Shah

Saurabh is the Vice Curator of Kathmandu Hub. He currently works at the International Labour Organization but he also has an entrepreneurial streak having led ventures from a pasta manufacturing industry to an insect protein company in the past. When not at work you can find Saurabh learning the guitar between cooking and doting on his dog.

Vedika Murarka

Vedika is the cofounder of Educase- a social enterprise that works to help improve the learning conditions for students in marginalised communities of South Asia. It’s an innovation, one-of-a-kind solution to the problem of poor classroom infrastructure: a schoolbag that turns into a desk for a personal study space anywhere. She Aslo heads Business Development at Murarka Group, a business conglomerate involved in the trading, manufacturing, clean energy and financial services sector in Nepal. Prior to this, she’s also had experience working in the Ministry of industry Commerce and Supplies on a research project for the Trade and Transit policies of Nepal.

Aditya Todi

Aditya Todi is a Director at MC Group where he is currently involved with developing a new vertical in the agriculture sector. MC Group is a leading business conglomerate doing business in Nepal for more than a century with diversified interests in manufacturing, trading and capital markets. Previously he has worked as a management consultant in Boston advising Fortune 500 companies on pricing and sales strategy. He also has experience working in the public and non-profit sectors across America, Africa and Asia. He is passionate about bringing societal change in Nepal through working at the intersection of the public and private sector. Aditya holds a BA in International Relations from Stanford University with an Honors in Democracy, Development and Rule of Law, as well as Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and MBA from Harvard Business School.

Sugam Ghimire

Sugam Ghimire is the director at SG Group which is his family business where the group is involved in 10 different verticals. Sugam is leading the automotive, tea manufacturing and petroleum trading division of the group. He is a business graduate from California State University,East bay. Apart from his involvement in the family business, he recently co-founded a start-up, which is Nepal's first commercial energy bar called "Fit Bar". As an avid off-roading enthusiast, he imports and distributes "Motorhead" off-road motorcycles, which is one of the highest selling off-road bikes in Nepal. In addition to that, he is a two wheleer commitee member of Nepal Automobile Dealer Association, an active member of Confideration of Nepalese Industries Young Entrepreneurs Forum(CNIYEF) and Nepal LPG industry Association.

Shekhar Agrawal

Shekhar Agrawal has graduated with a degree in finance at undegrad level, from NMIMS, Mumbai and a masters in marketing from Queen Mary University of London. After completing his studies, he joined his family business which manufactures steel and cement and currently is involved in sales and new business development.

Bhushan Dahal

."With a rich experience in managing and coordinating large teams including government, private and international organizations, Bhushan now works as an Executive Director for Kids of Kathmandu. He oversees and acts as a principal coordinator for projects that build schools with modern infrastructure in severely underdeveloped and remote areas of Nepal, in turn serving over 4,000 students from all across the country. He is also a project director for e-education Japan, developing concepts and contents of teaching materials, especially STEM subjects, to significantly ameliorate the quality of education materials of public schools in Nepal. He is also a lecturer at Shanker Dev Campus, affiliated to Tribhuwan University, Nepal. Bhushan graduated with Masters of philosophy (M.Phil) from Tribhuvan University. He was featured in the United Nations documentary, “Nepal: Rebuilding after the earthquake.” Outside of his work, he is country representative of Global Dignity and founding member of Friends for leadership. "

Gunjan Ghimire

Mechanical Engineer with an interest in biotechnology, Gunjan works with different engineering sectors of Nepal. Also involved with the Brick Sector, Gunjan has experience of doing podcasts and writing blogs. Currently his work takes him to unusual areas of research for product development as one of the lead engineers in his biotech company and with his involvement in the brick manufacturing sector of Nepal.

Harshit Agrawal

Harshit has been working in Nepal for the past 2 years at Hyat Enterprises, an ingredient trading company supplying raw materials to various food and beverage factories. Before that he was working in the US for Tesla as a Project Manager in their Battery division. He has lived all his life in hills and mountains from Mussoorie to Boston to Kathmandu but he still is a beach person. He has a strong passion for the energy industry and wants to make an impact in it in Nepal long-term.

Harshitaa Agrawal

Harshitaa Agrawal is the co-founder of Studio Rêver - a spatial designing studio based out of Kathmandu and Mumbai that creates experience through interior architecture, Set designing and Visual merchandising. She also is looking at the branding and marketing aspect of Shiv Shakti group. She has been involved in various community service initiatives in both India and Nepal.

Mega Maskey

Mega is a Civil Engineering graduate from Kathmandu Engineering College. She is the Network Coordinator at Harin Nepal, a youth led coalition promoting intersectional climate justice in Nepal. She identifies herself as an environmentalist, feminist and democrat and has been involved in grassroot movements and mobilization encompassing since 2018. Her major ventures include co-organizing 'Oxygen is my Birthright', an anti-pollution movement; 'Save Nijgadh' campaign; and Global Climate Strike in Nepal that saw massive youth engagement urging the Government to address climate crisis. Previously she worked at Sustainable Mountain Architecture and Rotaract Club of Mount Everest KEC as the Vice-President.

Mohit Rauniyar

Mohit Rauniyar is the Co-Founder and Director of Canopy Nepal, a social enterprise working to create educational accessibility for underprivileged students and to promote interactive learning in classrooms in Nepal. He has been in the education field for the past 11 years and has worked with over 1900 individuals through his sessions and reached more than 8800 students through Canopy Nepal. Rauniyar is also a part of Global Shaper Kathmandu, a community under the World Economic Forum, and is actively consulting for various educational institutions in Nepal. Rauniyar is also a Guide at The Resolution Project and his involvement as the Country Coordinator of the NCEP team in Nepal, a teacher at Bloom Nepal School, facilitator of various workshops for students, teachers, and parents among many has developed him into a strong advocate of quality education. Rauniyar is a Climate Reality Leader at The Climate Reality Project & Global Changemaker at Youth Forum Switzerland.

Nancy Agrawal

Nancy Agrawal is a skilled brand professional with experience working on projects for brands predominantly in the South Asian market. Her career has led her to work in the areas of television, alcohol, luxury and in social sector. Nancy aims to play a instrumental role in building the startup economy in her home country Nepal, by continuing to work as a freelance brand strategist for startups and SME’s. She holds an MSc in brand leadership from the University of East Anglia, UK. Currently she is handling the brand and marketing department of Royal Stag, a Pernod Ricard’s domestic segment, along with teaching undergrads brand strategy as a lecturer at KCM and working as a freelance strategist.

Pankaj Parajuli

Pankaj Parajuli is a global shaper from Kathmandu hub. After graduating as a civil engineer, I decided to co-found an organization called ISAP which looked to economically empower resource poor people through entrepreneurship and skills. He also co-founded two social enterprises one of whcih worked with dairy farmers to export a traditional form of Nepalese to western market as chew for dogs. He currently work in the area of Technical Vocational Education and Training with Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

Sahayu Goyal

Sahayu is a Director at M.G. Group involved in cement manufacturing, real estate development, hydropower projects. Sahayu is responsible for managing the Group's asset portfolio and expanding existing book of business. He is passionate about electric mobility and renewable energy. Previously, Sahayu worked as an Investment Banker at HSBC in both London and New York offices.

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.

Siddhant Begani

Siddhant Begani is an incoming member of the Begani Group. He received a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Southern California in Business Administration with a minor in Computer Programming. He then worked for one year at Ernst and Young, New York as a technology consultant. Siddhant has now returned back to Nepal and is looking after Ganapati Jewellers. After understanding the Nepal market and Nepali consumer more, Siddhant plans to start a company of his own.

Shapers

Saurabh Shah

Srishti Jessica Vaidya

Vedika Murarka

Saurav Thapa Shrestha

Aditya Todi

Sugam Ghimire

Shekhar Agrawal

Anoushka Pandey

Ayush Man Tamrakar

Bhushan Dahal

Gunjan Ghimire

Harshit Agrawal

Harshitaa Agrawal

Mega Maskey

Mohit Rauniyar

Nancy Agrawal

Nhasala Joshi

Pankaj Parajuli

Pratik Kunwar

Princi Koirala

Rajat Bajaj

Sahayu Goyal

Saloni Sethia

Santosh Pandey

Shubhangi Rana

Siddhant Begani

Sunita Dangol

Tsewang