Faculty MBA evening

Ashish Tiwari

Ashish Tiwari is Principal and Director at Ace Institute of Management. He has over 20 years of experience in the field of education and education management.

He has a deep interest and passion for teaching and training. He has been teaching and training since 1999 and has taught at Bachelors and Masters level. He has taught Marketing Management, Product Management, Consumer Behaviour, Managerial Communication, Services Marketing, Promotion Management, Marketing Research, Organization Behaviour, and Entrepreneurship. He has conducted trainings for several organisations for their middle and senior level managers. He has also supervised several post graduate theses in the area of Marketing.

Ashish has a Bachelor’s Degree in Science and an MBA with specialization in Marketing and Systems. He is currently a Doctoral Scholar at University of Bath, UK. His research interests include higher education management, marketing and branding.

He enjoys reading and music and has deep interest in languages and literature.

Deepesh Paudel

As an avid theatre learner and an MBA graduate, Deepesh Paudel continuously seeks to establish equilibrium between arts and management. His attempt often revolves around the works related with the study and practice of theatre in Nepal. Through Tatsama Arts (www.tatsamaarts.com), he has been working in the field of theatre and storytelling of different sorts. As of now, Paudel is associated with Antenna Foundation Nepal as a playwright. Along with that, he is working as an MBA faculty at Ace Institute of Management and Ace International Business School. Besides, Paudel has a keen interest in observing and writing about the core mechanisms, principles and developmental issues of the pertinent theatre scenario.

His notable works include; Kaya- a perishable layer (writer/director), Sphatik- their parallel escapes (writer/director), Dr. K. Misfit (writer), Aawaz (writer/director) and Oliver Twist(Director), Battle of Phoenix (2016), A song for ourselves (2017).

Dr Pradeep Rajopadhyay

PhD in Finance from Tribhuvan University

Program Director for EMBA Program at Ace Institute of Management

Dr. Rajopadhyay has earned a doctoral degree in Finance. He has more than two decades of teaching experience in subjects relating to finance, accounts and statistics. He has been engaged in auditing with different reputed organization in Nepal and India. Currently, he is working as program director for EMBA Program at Ace Institute of Management.

Gokarna Raj Awasthi

Bureau Chief of Business and Economic News , The Kantipur Daily

Masters in Business Studies, Tribhuwan University, Nepal

Gokarna has sixteen years of increasing responsibility as an economic Journalist. He has reported extensively on fiscal/monetary policies, hydropower, regional trade agreements, WTO, industry, banking, energy and development issues for both television and print media. He is currently associated with the Kantipur Daily, the largest selling daily in the country, as a Bureau Chief of Business and Economic News. He is also the President of Society of Economic Journalists-Nepal (SEJON).

Kashyap Shakya

Co-Founder, Allied Food Industry

Kashyap Shakya was born and brought up in Gangtok, Sikkim. A civil engineer who never pursued it and instead became a passionate Marketing guy with keen interest in Brand Management and Consumer Behavior. He has worked with MNCs like Gorkha Brewery and Dabur, and successful stint with brands like Tuborg, Carlsberg, Real Juice and some flagship brand launches like Gorkha Beer. On the other hand he has a good experience with brand failures like Jolly in the Nepalese market. Presently he is involved in his own venture at Allied Food Industry, trying to establish reasonably priced, healthy local products. Also, he is a consulting brand manager at Nepal Life Insurance. And apart from all of the above, he gets the ultimate satisfaction in teaching.

It helps him remain sane in this cruel world, as he puts it. Also an enthusiast photographer, a collector, a blogger and a wannabe “perfect” father and husband. He strongly believes that a bigger change is a cumulative aftermath of smaller changes and these smaller changes come through personal efforts.

Kiran Thapa

M.B.A. Tribhuvan University

Mr. Thapa has two decades of teaching experience in financial management, financial institutions and markets, financial derivatives and risk management, and investment management. He has numerous research works and publications in financial management, financial institutions and markets, financial derivatives and risk management, and investment management. Mr. Thapa has worked as director of Siddhartha Capital Limited. He has also worked as the convener of investment management and risk committee (IMRC) and Audit Committee at Siddhartha Mutual Fund.

K. B. Manandhar

Former Deputy Governer at Nepal Rastra Bank

Former Chairman at Nabil Bank Limited

MA Economics, Tribhuvan University

Mr. Manandar has had worked with different government organization at a much respected position during his career. He has received trainings and attended seminars relating to Macro Economic Policies, Techniques of Economic Analysis, Reserve Management, Managing Capital flows World Bank Seminars. He has been in teaching for over a decade.

Madan Lal Pradhan

Director at Hydro Solutions Private Limited

Master of Business Administration (Specialized in Human Resource Management), Kathmandu University

Mr. Pradhan has a Masters degree in Management with specialization in Strategic Human Resource Management. His primary interest is in management strategisation and contextual factors in organizational learning. He has both national and international experience managing projects and programmes of varied scope and range. As an Organization Development expert & a Management Practitioner, he has been actively involved in the field of human resource consulting, organizational assessments and reviews, institutional and OD interventions for various organizations (bilateral, multilateral, private and public corporations) primarily focusing on human processual approaches and techno- structural interventions in organizations. His other engagements have been in professional training, executive counseling and facilitating various learning programmes and competency development programmes managers and development practitioners in Nepal and abroad.

Prachanda Man Shrestha

Founder Chairman, National Tourism Foundation, Nepal

Masters Degree in Commerce (M. Com.), Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, 1972

Mr. Prachanda Man Shrestha has worked as Chief executive Officer at Nepal Tourism Board for the tenure of four years. He is working as freelance consultant to international trade and tourism related studies assigned by Government of Nepal and international donor agencies. Likewise, he also works as faculty lecturer for subjects relating to International Business, Emerging concepts in Management, Tourism Management in academic courses of Master of Business Administration and Tourism Management.

Pravat Uprety

Assistant Professor at Central Department of Statistics, TU, Kirtipur, Kathmandu

MSc in Statistics, MA in Population Studies

Pravat has been involved with the Central Department of Statistics, TU for over 13 years where he currently serves as assistant professor. His teaching subjects include Multivariate analysis, Econometrics, Statistical Inference, and Biostatistics. Likewise, he has been involved with several organizations as data analyst and statistician in his careers. He has also worked as resource person for conducting SPSS Training with different organization including Supreme Court, International Foundation for Electoral System, and Nepal Rastra Bank.

Rabindra Silwal

Country Director (Nepal), DAO Aviation A/S, Denmark

Leadership Position held with domestic airlines

M.Phil Scholar (Kathmandu University) – on going

Mr. Rabindra Silwal has been teaching graduate students of management since 2004. He has worked with domestic and international aviation companies throughout his tenure. He has strong management skills, team building capability, applied research skills and good set of communication skills.

Rijan Dhakal

He has been teaching Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Economic Policy Analysis, Managerial Economics and Mathematical Economics at different academic levels and universities. He is an Asistant Professor of Economics, Tribhuvan University. He has completed his Master’s degree in Economics from T.U. in 2003 and has experience of 13 years. He has received Mahendra Ratna Scholarship in Certificate Level. Similarly he was awarded Nepal Rastra Bank Scholarship in Certificate Level, Bachelor’s Level and Master’s Degree for highest marks obtained in Economics. He has visited Japan as a research student under Short-term Exchange Program Scholarship provided by the Japanese Government in 2004. He is associated with various academic institutions and has published articles in various journals, magazines and newspapers.

Published books: Managerial Economics, Economic Policy Analysis, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics and Economics–I and Economics -II in Nepali and English mediums.

Rimesh Bahadur Rajbhandary

General Manager, National Technology Center Pvt. Ltd.

MBA (Project Management), Kathmandu University School of Management

Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Tribhuvan University

Rimesh serves as the General Manager of National Technology Center Pvt. Ltd. He is a visiting faculty at Ace Institute of Management and National College. He has worked as a Managing Director at U-Hosts Pvt. Ltd., Management Consultant at American Business Network Inc. and System Administrator at SPI Nepal in the past.

Zaffar Naik

Ventures Ideas and Models

Educator, Corporate Trainer, Management Consultant

Executive MBA, Symbiosis, Pune

Zaffar has vast experience working in India and Australia where he was involved with Wipro Technologies and Accenture Consulting Services. Since coming to Nepal in early February 2013, he has been involved in corporate training and management consulting. He has been teaching at both Undergraduate and Graduate level in various Business Schools in Kathmandu.

Ashish Gajurel

Ashish Gajurel is a Transport and Traffic Engineer. He completed Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Transportation Systems from Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany. His research and teaching interests include transportation, project management, traffic engineering and operations and Supply Chain Management. He has authored numerous articles for national electronic and news media about traffic management, transportation infrastructure, public transportation, and so forth and a book “Performance Based Contracts for Road Projects”. He has also taught Transport Economics and Public Transportation at the Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University. He is currently working as a Consultant at the Office of the Investment Board Nepal. He teaches Project Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management and Operations Management for MBA course at different colleges in Kathmandu including Ace Institute.

Gurulakshmi Debasish Hait

Human Resource Management, Seminar in HRM, Performance Management System

She is an Adjunct faculty with a good mix of Industry and Teaching. She has a corporate stint for 6 years as HR Generalist and an academic stint of 4 years in India and Nepal which gives her an edge on her teaching pedagogy which emphasizes on experiential learning. She believes in cultivating a learning mindset with proper alignment of theories with Industry Practices. She teaches Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management and related subjects.

Kanishka Shakya

An MBA from Kathmandu University School of Management, Kathmandu and a bachelor’s degree from Symbiosis Society’s College of Arts and Commerce, Pune. Apart from education, he is a facilitator of marketing for several reputed colleges of Nepal. Currently also working in the field of Early Childhood Education.

Ms. Milan Bista

Freelance Trainer (Communication and Personality Development)

Adjunct Faculty (Undergraduate Programs), Ace Institute of Management

Adjunct Faculty, British College

IELTS Instructor, EduQuest Nepal

Ms. Milan Bista conducts freelance training in the areas of Communication and Personality Development at various government and private organizations. She is also associated with a few business colleges inside Kathmandu as Adjunct Faculty Member.

An MBA from Ace Institute of Management, Ms. Bista has also served Ace in the capacity of Program Coordinator for the Undergraduate School.

Pankaj Pradhananga

Director - Four Season Travel & Tours

Faculty member - ACE Institute of Management

President - Tourism Toastmasters Club

Council Member - SUNx program

Pankaj, Director of Four Season Travel & Tours, comes with an experience of more than 2 decades in Tourism industry with the focus on Inbound Tour operations in Himalayan region. He has travelled extensively in Asia, Europe and North America.

He has been working towards Inclusive Tourism initiatives in the Himalaya. He is the Charter President of Tourism Toastmasters Club in Kathmandu. He has spoken in number of tourism conferences advocating Responsible practices.

Sohan Babu Khatri

Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Rural Marketing and Agribusiness

Chief Executive Officer – Three H Management Pvt. Ltd.

Masters of Business Administration (MBA - Finance and Marketing), Bangalore University, India

Mr. Sohan Babu Khatri, CEO of Three H Management is a well-known management consultant with experience ranging across the cross-section of industries and sectors in Nepal as corporate business consultant, resource person for trainings and development, researcher and program designer. His experience, among others includes contribution to the entrepreneurial development of youths in various sectors in either role of mentor, coach, trainer, and evaluator, consultant through entrepreneurial boot camps, start-up accelerator programs, and development/social organizations. He has been visiting faculty in various renowned colleges of Nepal and continues to be adjunct faculty of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Strategic Management, Strategic Marketing, Rural Marketing and Agribusiness, Investment Decisions, and related subjects in some of them.

Hariom Sharma

Principles of Management/ Logistics and Supply Chain Management

MBA, Sikkim Manipal University, India

Masters in Management (MM), Kathmandu University, Nepal

PhD Scholar (currently pursuing), Career Point University, Rajastan, India.

Mr. Hariom Sharma is a restaurant entrepreneur and a freelance academician based in Nepal. He is the owner/business partner in China Town Chinese Restaurant and Sky High Lounge in Kathmandu, also Managing Director in Triple E Educational Services & Consultancy. He is an adjunct faculty member of graduate and undergraduate programmes in various business schools in Nepal. His areas of expertise are Emerging Concepts in Management, Principles of Management, Organizational Behavior & Relations, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Leadership, and Sales & advertising management.

Riswo Gorkhali

Mr. Gorkhali has been involved as the faculty at Ace Institute of Management since 2008 and brings over wide range of working experience. He is currently working as the Operations Director at Nepal Youth Foundation (a U.S based non – profit organization that has been working in Nepal since 1992 and works in the sector of education, youth empowerment, protection-shelter and health (nutrition, HIV/AIDS and psychological counseling. Web: www.nepalyouthfoundation.org).

His prior experience includes working as the Head HR & Operations at Vibor Bikas Bank Ltd (now Lumbini Bikas Bank Ltd.) that included leading departments like HR, Administration, IT, Corporate Communications and special projects. Mr. Gorkhali has worked in various capacities in the area of HR and Operations in the banking, corporate, education, IT and development sector. As trainer and management consultant he has been involved in various projects and programs aimed towards managing organizations effectively, designing performance management system, enhancing operational activities, improving organization communication effectiveness, training and developing human resources at various level, recruitment and selection activities, developing contextual HR policy and financial administration policy, conducting specific area wise to country wide researches.

Highlights of some organizations facilitated as a Consultant & Trainer:
Recent experience in consulting and training has been completed in organizations like Javra Software Pvt Ltd, Ullens Education Foundation, F1 Soft International and Esewa. Other prior experience includes providing services to organizations like Bank of Kathmandu, Nabil Bank, Prime Commercial Bank, Kumari Bank, Global bank,
Jyoti Group, Himalayan Distillery, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, Auto Parts International etc.

He enjoys working with people and especially likes facilitating activities directed towards capacity enhancement.

Ugen Gautam

Management Professional, MBA

Mr. Gautam started his career in banking from NDEP Development Bank, where he worked in the credit department. He was involved in loan processing and marketing. His key responsibilities were to perform risk analysis of prospective credit requests, prepare credit cases for approval, and help facilitate the clients in loan processing. He also worked at Grand Bank Nepal in the deposit marketing department and Office of the Company Secretary.

Later he left banking and started working at Ace Institute of Management in the capacity of Program Manager, Graduate School. He managed the MBA evening program. His key responsibilities were to ensure smooth operation of the program, manage different stakeholders viz. faculties and students, undertake teaching assignments, etc.

Later he served as Manager – Learning Design and Innovation at Ace Education Ventures; where he performed tasks such as researching, brainstorming, ideating on new ways of learning, designing learning methodologies and assessment models, designing integrated course framework, collaborating with industry experts to redesign course curricula, etc.

He also served as a Worker Success Associate at CloudFactory. He was assigned with the responsibility of effectively mobilizing culture budget. He was involved in designing culture budget framework as a guiding philosophy to ideate new programs and events that would ensure impactful work experience among cloud workers.

Currently, he is working at CG Holdings as Business Strategist where he assists the Management Team in creating strategies for existing as well as upcoming businesses.

Niranjan Shrestha

Niranjan Shrestha has over 8 years of experience in the field of marketing and sales. He has hands on experience in core marketing, digital marketing and sales management. Over the years, he has worked in IT, Automotive and Advertisement sectors. He has also served as a freelance content writer for various websites and also heads an automotive company since 2016. He holds bachelor’s degree in Information Systems (BBIS) from LACM (Little Angels College of Management), affiliated to Kathmandu University and an MBA degree from Kathmandu University School of Management (KUSOM) with specialization in marketing. He has academic subject expertise in Integrated Marketing Management, Brand Management, Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, Sales Management, Services Management, Consumer Behavior, E-Business technologies and Digital Marketing.

Anil Chitrakar

Born and schooled in Nepal, Anil Chitrakar trained as an engineer and energy planner at the University of Rajasthan (India) and the University of Pennsylvania (USA). He started his career as an energy engineer for the Academy of Science and Technology when he traveled to remote areas of Nepal to transfer renewable energy technologies. He then launched the Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness (ECCA) which aims to mobilize the youth and school children to be the link between the supply side of solutions and the demand side and enable learning outside the classroom. He has received the Ashoka Fellowship and recognized by the Rolex award for this. He joined the team that implemented the National Conservation Strategy for Nepal and went on to head the IUCN Nepal office.

In 1997, Anil joined the Kathmandu Metropolitan City as a member of the City Planning Commission where he focused his effort on heritage conservation and environmental management. In 1993 he was one of the 100 “Global Leaders for Tomorrow” awardees at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He has also been awarded the Tech Award in Silicon Valley for his work on renewable energy technologies. Currently he works on expanding his work in renewable energy, biodiversity conservation and heritage conservation. Anil was Chairperson of the Himalayan Climate Initiative and helped launch the 1550 km long Great Himalayan Trail in Nepal. He is also part of the team creating the Kailash Sacred Landscape.

Anil is currently President of Siddharthinc, a private initiative dedicated to unlocking markets, responsibly. He has a regular column in the Nepali Times – Half Full.

Sandesh Karmacharya

MBA in HR from Shinawatra International University, Thailand

Program Manager – Student Learning for Graduate School at Ace Institute of Management Mr. Karmacharya has completed his BBA from Kathmandu University and Master’s degree from Shinawatra International University in HR Specialization. He has 3 years’ experience in HR field working in the IT industry as HR Manager. Currently, he is working as Program Manager – Student Learning for Graduate School at Ace Institute of Management and undertaking the course Emerging Concepts in Management.

Subhrajit Dutta

Subhrajit Dutta (Subhro) is a high‐performing communications professional with more than 15 years of experience in Internal and External Communications, Strategic Marketing and Digital & Social Media. He has worked with the leadership and cross-functional teams across continents and cultures.

Subhro had been engaged with top companies like Accenture, Ogilvy, Johnson & Johnson, Haldia Petrochemicals, DuPont and Mahindra & Mahindra. He is a first-rate communications trainer and has conducted workshops for reputed banks and corporate brands. He has also taught Communications and Digital Marketing in Nepal, Bangladesh and India in a number of leading institutions and universities.

Subhro teaches communication for the MBA and MBA evening programs at Ace Institute of Management.

Dr. Mahendra Prasad Shrestha

Professor, Tribhuvan University, Shanker Dev Campus, Ram Shah Path, Kathmandu (2066-2072 B.S.)

Reader, Shanker Dev Campus (2055 B.S.)

Assistant Campus Chief, Shanker Dev Campus (2051-2053 B.S.)

Lecturer, Shanker Dev Campus (2042 B.S.)

A retired professor from Tribhuwan University, Dr. Mahendra Prasad Shrestha has experience of almost three decades in the academia. Dr. Shrestha has been extensively involved in research activities over the years, and has authored two books and many research papers.

Dr. Shrestha has been associated with the Graduate School of Ace Institute of Management as Adjunct Faculty Member, teaching the courses International Business, Business Environment Analysis, since early 2000.

Education

• Ph.D. (Development Studies), Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India
• University of Mysore 2040 B.S.

Ms. Binita Pradhan

Ms. Binita Pradhan has been adjunct faculty in the Ace Institute Of Management since 2013. She received her Master of Science in Marketing from the University of Cincinnati in the USA and an MBA from Kathmandu University in Nepal. Her areas of teaching are services marketing, consumer behavior, and branding.

She started her career from Standard Chartered Bank Nepal, where she worked as Personal Financial Consultant for two years. She has also worked in the marketing research field in international companies like EFG Research, New York, and Nunwood, New York. Currently, she is associated with her family business Agro Group where she heads the Marketing function.

Mr. Ajay Shrestha

Mr. Ajay Shrestha has completed EMBA from Pokhara University in 2006 and has been a visiting faculty member at Ace Institute of Management since 2008. He also teaches at Kathmandu University School of Management (KUSOM) in the same capacity. The courses that has been involved with till date are Business Environment of Nepal, International Business, Strategic Management and Strategic Choices. Further, he also conducts professional training courses related to financial markets at several training institutes viz. Nepal Banking Institute, KFA etc. He has also conducted training at the banks and financial institutions directly.

He carries a professional experience of working with three commercial banks of Nepal i.e. Standard Chartered Bank Nepal, Bank of Kathmandu and NMB Bank Limited. He was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bank of Kathmandu during 2010 to 2017.