Rachana Thapa is a co-founder and educator at Silver Mountain School of Hotel Management, a premium Hospitality Management College, providing international degree in Nepal. She is also currently working as a Director at Ace International Business School, a reputed business school that has been continually striving to raise the standard of management education in Nepal. Ms. Thapa has been involved in entrepreneurship in various ways throughout her career. In 2012, she founded XpressNepal, with vision to cater top notch cosmetic products in Nepal.

Ananta Saurabh is the Entrepreneur In Residence of NEXT Launchpad. He uses his years of experience to guide the company, while also being committed to guide the startups that will be joining us.

At the age of 22, Mr. Saurabh started WorxPro and has been with the company for the past 12 years, and has seen it cross borders. WorxPro now operates in Finland and UK. In addition, with the recent integration of WorxPro into the M&S brand he has been able to transform it into an innovation lab focusing on research in newly created areas like Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Internet of Things.

Being an entrepreneur and a computer enthusiast has created an exciting journey for him, where he find himself creating new strategies with new researches and innovations to ease up transformation of business into digital era.

Founder at Biz Serve Pvt. Ltd, a company engaged in business advisory services, Mr. Abhaya Poudel has over 8 years of experience in undertaking audits, assurance and consulting services. He is also working as a Partner of R P B & Associates Chartered Accountants, the firm engaged in audits and consultancy assignment of banks, finance, private, public companies, INGO/NGO and social organizations.

Mr. Poudel completed his Bachelors of Business Studies from Tribhuvan University in 2007. He has completed Information System Audit (ISA) and Chartered Accountancy (CA) course from ICAN. He also has a diploma in IFRS (DipIFR) from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants – UK.

Mr. Poudel has been involved in promoting entrepreneurship throughout his career. He is a mentor at M&S NEXT Launchpad, business accelerator program where startups grow their business through mentorship and raising investment.

Mannsi Agrawal is professional Public Speaker and a Charter President of Himalaya Toastmasters Club. She has over 5 years of experience in training students and professionals in various aspects of Public Speaking, Presentation and Soft Skills. She is a visiting faculty member at Ace College Higher Secondary, International Institute of Management Sciences, Lord Buddha Education Foundation and Institute of Banking and Management Studies. She is currently working as Marketing, PR and Events Consultant, at NLIC City Centre Mall, Kamalpokhari.

Swati Lohia is a Managing Partner at Business Brainz for past 3 years, a global professional services firm with strong capabilities in delivering high value business research and customized secondary research services. Looking upon her past, she has worked as a Promotion manager in Coca-Cola for about 2 years and as a Brand and Business Development Manager at Himalayan Snax and Noodles Pvt. Ltd.

Amun Thapa is the co-founder of SastoDeal.com, one of the most popular ecommerce sites in Nepal. He started SastoDeal about 4 years ago and has never looked back since then. In 2014,he co-founded another company, Anthropose, a social-good company that aspires to recognize and identify social problems in the developing world and create a viable, sustainable and scalable entrepreneurial solutions to counter these. He is also the co-owner at Chhahari Production and Sasto Book.

 Amun Thapa holds a Bachelors in Business Administration (Marketing and Customer Psychology) from University of Central Oklahoma. Aspired to be the Next-Gen Entrepreneur? - Look up to Amun Thapa.

Asgar Ali is the founder and CEO of E-Sewa, Nepal’s first online payment system. He lead a fresh team of 8 people to start E-Sewa as a separate company at the end of 2012 to change the online payment trend in Nepal. Within 4 years, they grew their number of customers from 19k to 400k, service merchants from 1000 to 1200, staff from 8 to 128, agent network from 100 to 17k and nevertheless, dramatic growth in revenue. Today, on average, E-Sewa processes 200,000 transactions every day, ranging from P2P transfer, domestic remittance and and merchant payments.

Asgar Ali is also vice president and general manager at F1Soft International Pvt. Ltd. He helped design the CBS(Core Banking System) independent products (Mobile Banking, Internet Banking and Remittance System) which could plug at any of Finacle,T24,iFlex,Pumori etc.

Srijana Sakya Jyoti is a Chief Brand Offier at Syakar Company. She handles the media and promtion compaigns of the company. She also worked in an ad agency and as a event manager before getting involved in advertising and promotion at Syakar Company. Srijana did her Masters Degree (MBA) from Kathmandu University and has over 5 years experience in branding & promotion.

Aakar Anil Ghimire is a HubSpot Certified, Marketing Technologist from Nepal. He looks after the Inbound Marketing at CloudFactory. CloudFactory provides an On-Demand, API driven workforce for scaling your business in the cloud. CloudFactory aims to connect 1 million people in the developing world to basic computer work through crowdsourcing. Before joining CloudFactory, he worked in Simplify360, Bangalore, India as Social Media Analyst.

He has completed his undergraduate (B.E. - Bachelor of Computer Engineering) from Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel Kavre, Nepal in 2011. He (@aakarpost) tweets a lot about Startup, Social Media, Inbound Marketing, Technology and Nepal.

Sandipa Thapa is a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) with specialization in career and leadership coaching. With over 16 years of work experience in USA, Nepal and Switzerland, she has worked as senior career coach at George Washington University School of Business, USA where she provided US acculturation to all international students, career coaching, and advising support to graduate MBA students. She has accompanied over 500 international job seekers in their career transition of USA. Currently, she is the co-founder of Silver Mountain School of Hotel Management (SMSH) and working as Director of Marketing and On Campus Recruitment, SMSH, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sandipa has MBA with specialization in Human resources and has an undergraduate degree in Hospitality Management from Switzerland. She is also Certified Hospitality Educator from Educational Institute of American Hotel & Lodging Association, USA.

Rajeev Amatya is the founder and managing director of Kaymu.com.np, the largest e-commerce platform of Nepal powered by German based Rocket Internet, one of the world's largest e-commerce focused venture capital firms and start-up incubators.

Before Kaymu, Rajeev has previously worked as Business Analyst in companies like Novumed Life Science Consulting & Advisory and Credit Suisse. He hold a Masters Degree in Strategy and International Management from University of St. Gallens, Switzerland.

Prabin Subedi is a practicing corporate focused lawyer having special aptitude in dealing with the cases related to company startups, information technology, contracts, foreign investment, company compliances, legal risk management, family laws and criminal cases. He has assisted and advised many techno based companies, equity ventures capital funds, hydropower companies, outsourcing companies, mining and metal industries etc.

He is also a practicing litigant lawyer representing clientele in cases including but not limited to civil cases, criminal cases, cases related to extraordinary jurisdiction, labor disputes, contract law, corporate law, banking and insurance law etc. Mr. Subedi is also a member of teaching faculty in Kathmandu School of Law teaching Public International Law, Law of Contracts, Banking and Insurance Law and other lectures. Mr. Subedi has served in the capacity of Country Manager in Multinational Mining Company, Company Secretary of Hospital, legal advisor of SME's, NGOs and INGOs in Nepal.

Mr. Subedi has taken an initiative and filed pro bono Public Interest Litigation cases in Supreme Court of Nepal. He has contributed to World Bank Global Report on ICT and Agriculture, co-author in 'Enabling Environment for Civil Society Organization, National Assessment, 2016'. He has number of publications and research in issue related to ICT Law, Cyberlaw, and Cyber Crime.

Mr. Shailendra Raj Giri is the Managing Director of MeroJob.Com, Nepal's number one job site for white collar jobs and rojgari.com, a unique job portal for blue collar jobs. He has amassed more than 10 years of experience as Human Resource Consultant working with a leading Human Resource Consulting firm, Real Solutions.

He obtained his Bachelor degrees in Business Management from Bangalore, India and Masters in Business from Kathmandu, Nepal. He is a founder member of Human Resource Network of Nepal. He is an active participants and moderator of HR Kurakani – HR learning platform. He is a certified NLP Coach certified by NLP Master Coach Jack Makani, Cyprus. He is an active member of Everest Toastmasters Club, a part of Toastmasters International. He was also recognized as ‘Global Entrepreneur 2012’ by Sambriddhi-The Prosperity Foundation.

Moushumi Shrestha has more than 15 years of experience in the field of development and agri-related activities. Ms. Shrestha is a student of Economics and MBA with a specialization in social marketing. She is also working as Senior Advisor: Private Sector Development in Practical Action Consulting, Asia to expand its outreach in the region and to strengthen the working modality with Private Sector. Ms. Shrestha was a Consultancy Manager for Practical Action Consulting Asia based in Kathmandu looking after Nepal, Bhutan, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and wider Hindu Kush region. She also worked in SNV Nepal as Primary Process Advisor introducing triple AAA model to deliver advisory services and as Quality Control Officer. She has also worked as a consultant for various organisation as Institutional Development Organisational Strengthening, Planning and Monitoring, Value Chain advisor.

GauravMan Sherchan is the CEO of Ginger Marketing Services, an authorized corporate insurance agency with Nepal Life Insurance Company, Kamaladi, Kathmandu, Nepal’s leading life insurance company, a first of its kind in Nepal. Ginger MS was established with a vision to promote a happier, wealthier and secure life by assisting customers to create a secure financial future.

A very passionate person, he only believes in doing what is right, what he believes in.

Mr. Narottam Aryal is the Executive Director at King’s College, Kathmandu, Nepal. He has been with this college for the last four years.

Since his graduation in 1999 he has been working with Nepalese higher education especially in the field of business and entrepreneurship. He obtained his Master in Public Administration from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal and M. Phil. in Public Policy from University of Bergen, Norway. Mr. Aryal was awarded the Manager of the Year 2013 by Management Association of Nepal.

An International Visitor Leadership Program Fellow of US Department of State, Mr. Narottam recently attended a week-long executive program on Social Entrepreneurship at INSEAD, Singapore.