Mbwana has worked in a variety of roles in Silicon Valley, UK and Africa from startups to corporations. Most recently as a Entrepreneur in Residence EIR at i/o ventures where he founded Savannah Fund. Mbwana has worked as an aerospace systems engineer & software developer at QinetiQ (formerly the UK’s Defense Evaluation Research Agency) in flight testing with clients such as Airbus and UK Ministry of Defense. He has also served a Product Manager in the Microsoft Office and Business Intelligence Group responsible for Excel and Access product line. He has since worked and advised at 2 US startups in social networking & gaming (AppPrizes and PixPulse) and worked as a founder of the first East Africa online travel portal, Yellowmasai.
Other ventures Mbwana is involved in include Usizame (ferry safety alert system) and Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic and was an advisor of the Dar es Salaam Teknohama Business Incubator via the Tanzania’s President’s Office. He was accepted to the Kauffman Foundation Global Partners program in 2012 and actively speaks about promoting entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world. He blogs extensively about Africa technology and entrepreneurship.