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Jewan "Jack" Tiwari  ·  Founder · Author · Festival Founder

Nepali Roots. American Business.

Built from both. Grown in new soil.

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Origin Story

From the
Himalayas
to the
boardroom.

"I help things grow
in new soil."
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Business Verticals

15+

Years in Business

400+

Franchise Brands

I was born in Nepal — a country defined by altitude, endurance, and the belief that the summit is always reachable if you respect the climb. I carried that worldview across an ocean and built a life in Northern Virginia, where I became something the textbooks don't have a category for: a Nepali-American entrepreneur who bridges cultures, capital, and business ownership.

I've been a 7-Eleven franchisee. I've launched restaurant concepts. I've failed, pivoted, and rebuilt — publicly, without apology. I call myself a "Pioneer of Business Failures" because every closed chapter taught me something no MBA could. That founder scar tissue is now the core product I offer: hard-won clarity about what it actually takes to buy, build, and exit a business in America.

Today, I lead Oval Business Group — a multi-vertical advisory holding company spanning M&A, franchising, commercial lending, and real estate. I advise executives leaving corporate America on how to make the most consequential ownership decision of their lives. I author books on franchise economics and business exit strategy. And I bring my community together every autumn in Haymarket, Virginia, for the Global Kinship Festival — a celebration rooted in Nepal's Kukur Tihar tradition and the universal language of connection.

This domain — NepaliMan.com — has been mine for over 15 years. It always felt like it was waiting for the right moment. That moment is now.

The Oval Ecosystem

Four Verticals.
One Vision.

Oval Business Group is not a single business — it is a coordinated architecture of advisory divisions, each one purpose-built to serve entrepreneurs at a different stage of the ownership journey.

M&A · Brokerage
BizQuisition

Business brokerage and M&A advisory for founders ready to exit and buyers ready to acquire. Powered by the Summit Score™, Sherpa Process™, and the 18-Play Framework™. Affiliated with ProNova Partners.

bizquisition.com →
Franchise Consulting
FranMerica

America's franchise consulting platform built on the FRANOMICS® methodology — six proprietary tools and seven principles that guide executives from W-2 employment into the right franchise ownership opportunity.

franmerica.com →
SBA Lending · Capital
LoansBloom

SBA 7(a) and 504 lending advisory managing a private lender panel for acquisition financing, franchise funding, and business capital. Positioned as OBG's Capital Markets division — where deals get funded.

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Commercial · Residential
Oval Realty

Commercial and residential real estate advisory serving business owners who need to acquire or optimize real property alongside their business transactions. Affiliated with Samson Properties.

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Ready to buy, build, or exit?

The Oval Ownership Pathway™ was built for your next chapter.

Visit OvalBusinessGroup.com
Published Works

Ideas that
outlast the deal.

FRANOMICS Trilogy · Vol. I
The
Buyer
Jewan Tiwari

Franchise Buying · Decision Framework

The Buyer

The first volume in the FRANOMICS Trilogy — a definitive guide to the psychology, economics, and strategy of buying a franchise the right way.

FRANOMICS Trilogy · Vol. II
The
Builder
Jewan Tiwari

Franchise Growth · Operations

The Builder

Volume II follows the journey of a franchise owner who transforms a single unit into a multi-location enterprise — the strategy, systems, and mindset required.

FRANOMICS Trilogy · Vol. III
The
Baron
Jewan Tiwari

Exit Strategy · Wealth Building

The Baron

The trilogy concludes with the exit — how franchise owners extract maximum value from what they built and transition wealth to the next chapter of life.

Publishing through FRANOMICS.com
— Q3 2026 · Also: the Exitonomics series

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KINSHIP
Kinship Global

Rooted in
Nepal.
Celebrated
by the World.

The Global Kinship Festival was born from Nepal's most beautiful tradition — Kukur Tihar, the annual celebration of the bond between humans and dogs. What began as a cultural tribute became something larger: an annual gathering in Haymarket, Virginia that honors kinship in all its forms — across species, generations, and cultures.

Under the Kinship Global umbrella, the festival now operates in two seasons — each with its own character, its own audience, and its own way of saying the same thing: we are more alike than we are apart.

🍂
Tihar Kinship Festival

Autumn · Haymarket, Virginia
The original celebration — animal welfare, Nepali culture, community gathering.

🌸
Human Tihar · The Analog 24

Spring · Haymarket, Virginia
A celebration of human connection in the digital age — 24 hours of presence.

2025
Global Kinship
Festival
📍 Haymarket, Virginia

"Inspired by Nepal's Kukur Tihar — the day the world stops to honor the dog. We took one tradition and asked: what if it became a door that the whole world could walk through?"

— Jewan Tiwari, Founder

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From the Trail

The mountain
always teaches
something.

I've crossed the Himalayas and the Rockies on foot. Not because I'm an athlete — I'm not. But because there's a kind of clarity that only altitude can deliver. These are the dispatches from the trail: honest accounts of what the mountain asked of me, and what I brought back for business and life.

5,364m
Everest Base Camp
Khumbu Region · Nepal

The pilgrimage every Nepali carries in their heart. Walking to the foot of the world's tallest mountain is not a physical challenge — it is a reckoning with what ambition actually looks like up close.

Completed
4,130m
Annapurna Base Camp
Annapurna Sanctuary · Nepal

The Annapurna Circuit is Nepal's gift to those who want a different kind of summit — not height, but breadth. Rhododendron forests, suspension bridges, and the reminder that the path is the point.

Completed
14,440 ft
Mount Elbert
Rocky Mountains · Colorado, USA

The second-highest peak in the contiguous United States. A Nepali-American businessman with no athletic history. A 5am start. And the most instructive 4,500 feet of elevation I've ever climbed.

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Journal Entry · Vol. 01
14,440 Feet Above Sea Level
  • Mountain Mount Elbert
  • Location Leadville, Colorado
  • Summit Start 5:00 AM
  • Summit Reached 11:00 AM
  • Total Elevation Gain 4,500 ft
  • Times I Nearly Quit ~200
  • Rank (US) 2nd Highest Peak

The Mountain That
Didn't Know I Was
Not an Athlete.

📍 Leadville, Colorado · 10,152 ft 🏔 Mount Elbert · Colorado Rockies

I arrived in Leadville, Colorado — the highest incorporated city in the United States at 10,152 feet — already struggling to breathe normally. The Rocky Mountain range stretches 3,000 miles across Canada and several U.S. states, forged 70–80 million years ago. Mount Elbert rises from it like a quiet declaration. It doesn't look like a challenge from the ground. That's the first deception.

I am not a natural athlete. I want to be clear about that. I set out at 5 AM not from confidence but from the calculation that I would need every available hour. The first three miles below the tree line were almost pleasant — a forest walk in the dark, cool air, the kind of beginning that tricks you into thinking you've prepared well.

"Every business acquisition I've ever advised on has a false summit. The due diligence clears, the LOI is signed, the lawyers are circling — and you think you're almost there. You are not almost there."

Above the tree line, the mountain showed its real character. The trail steepened. Thin air at altitude does something to your body that no amount of reading prepares you for — it slows your thinking before it slows your legs. Altitude sickness arrived somewhere around 12,500 feet. Every step upward at 1,000 feet per hour felt like a negotiation between the body that wanted to stop and the mind that had made a public commitment to the summit.

At around 12,500 feet I considered turning back. The weather had shifted — freezing temperatures, rain moving in, fog thickening across the upper trail. The crowd from the early morning had thinned dramatically — the people who started with confidence were the first ones to retreat. I noticed that. The mountain is an excellent filter.

Then came the false summit. I don't think anything has ever tested my resolve quite like reaching what every instinct tells you is the peak — only to see the real summit waiting silently another several hundred feet above. In business, I call this the "LOI Illusion." You think the deal is done. The mountain disagrees.

I reached the true summit at 11 AM. Six hours. The view — which should have been extraordinary, a panoramic sweep of the Rockies — was buried in cloud and fog. I stood at the top of the second-highest point in the contiguous United States and could see perhaps thirty feet in any direction. And it was still one of the most complete moments of my life. Because the summit was never really about the view.

Lessons from 14,440 Feet

  • —Determination is the only equipment that never gets lighter.
  • —The false summit is not failure. It is the final exam.
  • —Success is hardest to believe in the exact moment it arrives.
  • —The people who turn back first are usually the ones who started most confident.
  • —Every peak moment is temporary. The descent is how you earn the right to climb again.
  • —The mountain does not know your résumé. Neither does the market.

EBC & ABC journal entries — coming soon.
Nepal always has more to say.

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Speaking & Media

Ideas worth
the stage.

Jewan speaks to corporate audiences, entrepreneur communities, franchise associations, and cultural organizations on the intersection of immigrant identity, business ownership, and the American opportunity landscape.

  • 01The Immigrant Entrepreneur's Edge
  • 02FRANOMICS — The Economics of Franchise Ownership
  • 03The Oval Ownership Pathway™ for Corporate Executives
  • 04M&A Fundamentals for Main Street Business Owners
  • 05Exit Strategy: Building to Sell from Day One
  • 06Kinship Economics — Culture as Competitive Advantage

"Jewan doesn't just talk about business ownership — he speaks from the scar tissue of someone who has built, lost, and rebuilt with total clarity about why it was worth it."

— Corporate Event Attendee, Northern Virginia

"His Nepali-American perspective brings a dimension to entrepreneurship conversations that corporate rooms rarely get — and desperately need."

— Franchise Industry Event, Washington D.C. Metro

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