Our Team

Industry veterans, Silicon Valley scientists, and Nepali diaspora — united by one mission: to bring biotech home.

Three disciplines.
One mission.

HIBH brings together the industry connections to build, the scientific expertise to validate, and the financial acumen to scale.

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Shambhu Kumar Karki
Founder & CEO

31-year veteran in Nepal's industrial and manufacturing sectors. ESG and sustainable development expert with deep expertise in Himalayan bio-resources, digital inventory systems, and community land relationships in Solukhumbu.

Primary relationship holder with ADB, government ministries, and Solukhumbu farming communities. The visionary behind HIBH's concept and the Everest–Deccan bio-economy model.

31 yrs industry ESG Expert Solukhumbu
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Namrata Dhungana
Co-Founder & Biotech Lead

MS in Cell and Molecular Biology (Cal State East Bay). Currently NGS Research Associate at Signios Biosciences, Bay Area — specializing in nucleic acid extraction, protocol optimization, and analytical QC.

Leads HIBH's scientific strategy — extraction protocol development, quality standardization, pharma market access, and the Open Lab training programme. Returning to Nepal full-time to build and lead the science.

Silicon Valley Molecular Biology Returning Diaspora
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Promod Tandan
Financial Lead

Financial structuring and investment documentation expert. Coordinates technical-financial alignment across HIBH's institutional partnerships — translating scientific extraction models into investor-ready financial projections.

Primary contact for ADB financial documentation, blended finance structuring, and capital raise coordination. Ensures HIBH's financial model is credible, transparent, and investor-ready.

Financial Modelling ADB Liaison Nepal

From Silicon Valley
to Solukhumbu.

Nepal gave me my roots. The USA gave me the tools. HIBH is how I bring them together.

I have spent years working in Silicon Valley's biotech industry — learning extraction science, protocol validation, and the molecular knowledge that turns plants into pharmaceutical ingredients. But that journey was always preparation, not destination.

I want to return to Nepal full-time — to lead the scientific development of HIBH, to train the next generation of Nepali biotech scientists, and to prove that diaspora return builds something Nepal can be proud of.

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Namrata Dhungana
Co-Founder & Biotech Lead, HIBH
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Nepal — Roots
Born and raised. This is home.
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CSU East Bay — MS Cell & Molecular Biology
Neuroscience, molecular genetics, research.
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Signios Biosciences, Bay Area
NGS extraction, protocol optimization, QC.
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Returning → Nepal, Full-Time
Lead HIBH Open Lab. Train the next generation.

Strategic partnerships
in progress.

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Collaborations Coming Soon

SHIBH is building a network of institutional, scientific, and financial partners. Partnership announcements will be made as agreements are formalised.

We are looking for people
who want to build Nepal.

Scientists, investors, policy experts, or community partners — if you believe Nepal's bio-economy can be world-class, we want to hear from you.

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