15 years of experience ranging across the cross-section of industries and sectors in Nepal as a corporate business consultant and resource person for corporate trainings and capacity development initiatives. 17 years of experience as a graduate level educator of subjects like Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Business Planning, Strategic Marketing and Business Crisis & Continuity Management (also Managerial Finance, Financial Management, Investment Decisions, Project Management, Strategic Finance, Strategic Brand Management in the past). Majority of the consulting projects I led in the corporate world involved the modules like strategic audit, strategic planning, business planning, due diligence of organizational systems and processes, value/ activity chain analysis, business process re-engineering, baseline study, impact study, market research, feasibility study, IT integration, business and financial modeling to name a few. Notable clients I have served as a consultant are: Rastriya Banijya Bank Ltd., Town Development Fund (TDF), National Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET), Norvic International Hospital, Swiss Contact, UNCDF, Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network (ADRRN), Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR), Employment Fund Secretariat EFS/Helvetas, High-Value Agriculture Project (HVAP), SME Link Project, Planet Finance, Nepal – Bureau, Swiss Contact (Sahaj, CASA). My experience, among others, includes contribution to the development of understanding and capacities related to entrepreneurship and startup management among youths in roles of mentor, coach, trainer, evaluator, and consultant through entrepreneurial boot camps, start-up accelerator programs, and related projects of development/social organizations focused on development of vocational skills, employment generation, micro-enterprise development and entrepreneurship development. (UNNATI, HVAP, One-to-Watch, Ture North Associates, Antarprerana etc.)I have been involved as a resource person in research supervision, business planning and evaluation team of various organizations, including academic institutions. As a passionate hobbyist, I am an artist and have four painting exhibitions under my sleeve - all executed for social cause. I love cooking and have found a new passion recently - Gardening. I love the process of creation, transfering knowlege/ expereinces, analysis, synthesizing concepts from various disciplines and solving problems - using approaches which would perfectly balance between the techincal correctness and emotional well-being.