Mr. George Manyere co-founded Brainworks Capital, a leading Zimbabwean Private Equity company with holdings in Hospitality, Real Estate, Logistics and Financial Services. He is also a Non-Executive Director of MyBucks S.A a German Stock Exchange listed Fintech company. He has been involved in all phases of Brainworks’ development since its founding in 2009 after he had left the International Finance Corporation (IFC), headquartered in Washington DC.

He has recently stepped down as an executive member of the Brainworks team and is now concentrating on developing interests in the financial technology space through MyBucks S.A a leading Financial Technology Company that is based in Luxembourg and listed in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange where he is a founding director.

George has been involved in all phases of Brainworks development since its founding in 2009 in particular he led acquisition of GetCash (previously Netcash) a mobile money platform, and he brought Africa’s only online lender GetBucks to Zimbabwe. Within the first five years of its formation, George has led Brainworks in developing and executing its strategy which has seen it become one of Zimbabwe’s leading investment holding companies and a market leader in the provision of corporate advisory services. Under his leadership, Brainworks has successfully concluded approximately US$120 million in proprietary investments (80% equity transactions and 20% debt), and approximately US$500 million in third party corporate advisory transactions comprising both debt and equity transactions. Through Brainworks, George has successfully lead investments in various sectors in Zimbabwe namely financial services (banking, insurance and asset management), energy logistics, hospitality and real estate. Prior to founding Brainworks, Mr. Manyere was an investment professional with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), headquartered in Washington DC. While at IFC, he was responsible for investing in excess of USD 600 million in sub-Saharan Africa, and managing a portfolio of investments in excess of USD 400 million and represented IFC on several investee company boards.