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Ejaj Ahmad

Name: Ejaj Ahmad, Age: 28, Country: Bangladesh, Company: Non-profit, Focus: Youth Dev

The challenges confronting Bangladesh today are immense, complex and disparate. Bangladesh is threatened by climate change and ecological devastation, terrorism, chronic poverty and widening socio-political and economic inequities. There is a pressing need for courageous...

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Casey Wilson

Name: Casey Wilson, Age: 25, Country: China, Company: Social Venture, Focus: Finance

Despite China's economic boom over the past decades, over 200 million rural Chinese still live on less than $1.25 USD a day. Inequalities have developed and are growing larger by the day, and the "have-nots" in rural areas continue to have limited access to basic financial services...

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Nimesh Ghimire

Name: Nimesh Ghimire, Age: 19, Country: Nepal, Company: Non-profit, Focus: Education

The age-old curriculum in Nepal promotes a system where being educated simply means memorizing information without caring much for the level of understanding and skill development in students. To add to its woes, even the classroom environment is not up to the scratch. ...

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Welcome

The Paragon program annually selects 100 young entrepreneurs and social changemakers of up to 30 years of age from Asia Pacific who are an inspiration to other young people.

On this site you can find their inspiring stories, stories from young people in Asia Pacific, who had the desire and guts to make a change and to stride out and start their own venture. Your can read about their background and their ventures, and if you also desire to get started you can find resources such as entrepreneurship courses and current business plan competition.

Get inspired by the stories of the Paragon fellows and take actions to one day become a Paragon yourself.

 

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Our Fellows in the News

  • TenCube got acquired by McAfee

    2010-07-30

    Kudos!! McAfee, the security juggernaut, has signed a “definitive agreement” to acquire Paragon Fellows Rishi Kumar's Singapore-headquartered mobile security firm, tenCube, with the acquisition expected to close within the month.

     
  • Shamila wins Mbillion award

    2010-07-27

    Kudos to Shamila Keyani, Paragon fellow '09 from Pakistan, who won the mBillion award in the category Health with her venture Jaroka Tele-Healthcare.

     
  • Watch Faisal pitch his ventures!

    2010-07-23

    Watch Faisal (Paragon fellow '09) and his classmates from the 2010 Global Social Business Incubator (GSBI) pitch their ventures! Aug 26 Santa Clara University/ USA.