Nepal, Aug. 24 -- Pukar Hamal looks out onto the Bay from large windows of his company's headquarters on the 37th floor of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, and considers how far he has come from his small village in distant Darchula district in Nepal.

At just 35, Hamal is the founder and CEO of SecurityPal, a $105 million company specialising in cybersecurity and security assurance for multinationals in the United States and around the world.

Hamal's grandfather Ram Chandra was an activist in Darchula for voting rights during the absolute monarchy era. His father Harish Hamal came to Kathmandu, where Pukar was born in 1991. His mother, Sunita, took him back to Darchula where he grew up. Their rural village in Nepal's most remote ...