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Lieutenant-Colonel
Nigel Collett
Managing Director
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Born in England and educated
at St Peter's College Oxford where he took a Bachelor
of Arts in Modern History in 1973. After working
in the Ministry of Defence as an Administrative
Trainee in the Home Civil Service, he joined the
British Army's Devonshire and Dorset Regiment,
attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
in 1974. After various postings, he served as
Adjutant of the Prince of Wales's Division Depot
at Crickhowell in Wales, then, in 1981, was seconded
to the Sultan of Oman's Land Forces as a Company
Commander with the Western Frontier Regiment in
Thumrait, Dhofar.
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In 1984, he transferred to the 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles as a Major and was posted to Hong Kong where he served from 1985 to 1992. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and commanded 6th Gurkha Rifles in Hong Kong and in Brunei, where he served as Garrison Commander of British Forces from 1992-93. In 1994, he retired to found the Gurkha International Group, of which he has been Managing Director up to the present.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, Companion of the Nautical Institute and Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors. He is a founding member and adviser of the Hong Kong 6th Gurkha Rifles Association. He is Chairman of the Hong Kong Bodyguard Association. He is a published author of three books:
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A Grammar, Phrase
Book and Vocabulary of Baluchi, self-published
for the Omani forces in 1984, with a second
edition in 1986
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A Nepali-English-Nepali
Dictionary, self-published in 1994
for the British Army, the Gurkha Contingent
of the Singapore Police and the Gurkha Reserve
Unit, Brunei
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The Butcher of Amritsar,
published by Hambledon & London in London,
April 2005, a biography of Brigadier Dyer,
perpetrator of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
at Amritsar in the Punjab in 1919
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Praveen
Thapa
Manager, Operations, Gurkha International Manpower
Services Ltd
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After graduating with a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Geography and English from Dayanand
Anglo Vedic University in 1995, he worked as an
Assistant Clerk with British Gurkha Overseas (Private)
Ltd in Nepal. He was later promoted to Chief Clerk
and served in that capacity from 1998 to 1999.
He joined Gurkha International Manpower Services
Ltd in Hong Kong in 1999 as the Executive, Operations
dealing with operational, administrative and accounting
issues and was promoted to Assistant Manager,
Operations, in 2005. He was promoted to Manager,
Operations in 2007.
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Hem
Chandra Thapa
Manager, Marketing and Sales, Gurkha International
(Hong Kong) Ltd
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After graduating with a Bachelor
of Commerce degree from University of Pune in
1992, he joined Gurkha International (Hong Kong)
Ltd in 1997. He was promoted to Executive, Marketing
and Sales in 2004 and again to Assistant Manager,
Marketing and Sales in 2005. An active sports
enthusiast, he holds a green belt in Tae Kwon
Do. He was promoted to Manager, Marketing and
Sales in 2007.
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Lok
Limbu
Assistant Manager, Administration and Accounts,
Gurkha International (Hong Kong) Ltd
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After graduating with a Bachelor
of Science degree from Tribhuwan University, Nepal,
he taught briefly in a secondary school and subsequently
worked as a supervisor in Gorakhkali Rubber Udyog,
a rubber manufacturing company in Nepal. He arrived
in Hong Kong in 1994 and worked in the Hard Rock
Cafe. Thereafter he joined Gurkha International
(Hong Kong) Ltd as a Guard then Night Controller,
and was appointed to the position of Executive,
Administration and Accounts in 2006. He was appointed
to Assistant Manager, Administration and Accounts
in 2007. He is the Chairman of Hukpa Chongbang
Welfare Committee and is also an active member
of the Limbu community in Hong Kong.
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Talim Bahadur Gurung
Operations Manager, Gurkha International (Hong Kong) Ltd
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Talim was a British Army Gurkha soldier from 1968 to 1991, retiring in the rank of Honorary Lieutenant (QGO). He then worked as a Security Supervisor in Luanda, Angola, for the Odebreght Diamond Mining Project in 1992. He returned to Hong Kong in 1993 and joined Jardine Securicor Gurkha Services as a Security Supervisor. He was then recruited as a Ship Security Guard by Royal Caribbean International Cruises in 2001 and spent many years at sea providing security for passengers and crew onboard major cruise ships. In 2008, he joined Gurkha International as its Assistant Operations Manager.
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Udaya Veer Pun
Executive Training & Recruiting, Gurkha International (Hong Kong) Ltd.
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Udaya was an Assistant Teacher in the Dipendra Police Boarding School in Nepal from 1990 to 1994 and whilst there graduated with an Intermediate Certificate in Arts from Bhanu Bhakta Campus, Tanahu, in 1992. He was appointed as an Assistant Sub Inspector in the Nepal Police Force, 1994.
He arrived in Hong Kong in 1999 and has since worked with various property management and security companies. He joined Gurkha International in 2008 as a Gurkha Supervisor and then as the Company's Training and Recruiting Executive.
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