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.