About Us
Shah Hemp Inno-Ventures is a social enterprise based in Nepal, is transforming wild-grown hemp into a catalyst for fair employment, economic growth, climate change mitigation, eco-friendly construction and sustainable hemp-based products.
Dhiraj K. Shah and Nivedita Bansal founded Shah Hemp Inno Ventures in 2015. Dhiraj is a wireless communications engineer and Nivedita is a psychologist & life coach.
Before co-founding SHIV, Dhiraj has worked as a researcher in Engineering labs in Germany and Portugal. Alongside he has also been researching on cannabis/hemp and its industrial uses since 2004. His belief in sustainable living and technical acumen is the vision behind SHIV. He oversees all product development and machine needs at SHIV and imbues every aspect of the company with innovation.
Nivedita has worked for NGOs and INGOs in India and Portugal before SHIV, along with her keen professional interest in human resource development, she has a personal mission of “helping people have better quality of life”. Co-founding SHIV with her husband gave her a way to reach out to more people every day. She manages administration and human resources, and imbues every aspect of the company with social consciousness.
Together, they work with local stakeholders to create meaningful employment, hemp-based housing, and unique hemp craft products that support the development of their community.
Our Mission
Shah Hemp Inno-Ventures is on a mission to utilise the hemp plant as a catalyst for economic, environmental and social benefits across the local communities in Nepal that are influenced by our work. We seek to create a model of community investment through product development that can inspire positive global change.