Manu Smadja is Co-founder and CEO of MPOWER Financing, a FinTech company empowering bright minds around the world to achieve their full educational potential. A former international student himself, Manu experienced first-hand the financial challenges of getting a foreign degree.

Prior to co-founding MPOWER, Manu spent nearly four years at McKinsey & Company as a consultant and subsequently an engagement manager serving financial services companies, development banks and central banks across Europe, the U.S. and Africa. He has worked with top financial institutions in the U.S., Europe and Africa. Prior to McKinsey he worked in marketing strategy and operations at CapitalOne and Vistaprint. Manu holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD, as well as an M.S. in Systems & Information Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.