Hong Kong
Lieutenant-Colonel Nigel Collett
Managing Director

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.

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, Fellow of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors. He is a founding member and adviser of the Hong Kong 6th Gurkha Rifles Association, a Church Councillor at Christ Church, Kowloon Tong and a member of the committee for the Hong Kong Apostleship of the Seas. He is Chairman of the Hong Kong Bodyguard Association. He is a published author of three books:

A Grammar, Phrase Book and Vocabulary of Baluchi, self-published for the Omani forces in 1984, with a second edition in 1986
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
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
 
Praveen Thapa
Manager, Operations, Gurkha International Manpower Services Ltd


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.
 
Hem Chandra Thapa
Manager, Marketing and Sales, Gurkha International (Hong Kong) Ltd


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.
 
Lok Limbu
Assistant Manager, Administration and Accounts, Gurkha International (Hong Kong) Ltd


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.
 
Captain Kishor Kumar Gurung
Assistant Manager, Operations, Gurkha International (Hong Kong) Ltd


He joined the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) in 1993 as an officer cadet. He passed out of training as a 2nd Lieutenant and graduated in Military Science. He served in the RNA for 12 years until January 2005 and left with the rank of Captain Platoon Commander. He joined Gurkha International (Hong Kong) Ltd in March 2005 as Patrol Officer and was promoted to Assistant Manager, Operations in 2007.
 
Mahesh Thapa Magar
Executive, Training and Recruitment, Gurkha International (Hong Kong) Ltd


The eldest son of Hon Lt (GCO) Mohan Bahadur Thapa QG Signals, born in Hong Kong’s British Military Hospital in 1974. He completed high school at the Gurkha High School, Hong Kong 1990. He further completed further education in a college in Tamil Nadu, India.

He joined Gurkha International (Hong Kong) Ltd as a Reliever Security in 2006 and also attended the Basic Bodyguard course run by the Bodyguard Association Hong Kong. He became the Night Controller in 2006 and Patrol Officer in 2007, and was promoted to Executive, Training and Recruitment in the same year.

 
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