The award-winning entrepreneur is a tech enthusiast and civic activist. He is committed to education and financial inclusion, notably in rural areas that are usually hard to reach.

Charles Muhindo (photo) is a Ugandan computer scientist and the co-founder/CEO of fintech startup MamboPay.

His startup, founded in 2016, helps businesses and individuals make payments through state-of-the-art NFC cards designed to provide a Tap-andPay experience to recipients and enable real-time fund transfers to or from mobile money wallets. The startup addresses three major challenges in the everyday use of digital financial transactions. They are notably transparency, accountability and personal finance management.

In 2013, Charles Muhindo also co-founded BrainShare Ltd, an edtech startup that gives learners access to top-notch education content online and offline. It creates an inclusive learning environment by supporting the creation of content by local teachers for African learners. He served the edtech startup as CEO up to 2021.

Charles Muhindo's professional career began in 2011 at IntelWorld where he was a senior application developer. As such, he was "responsible for mobile applications with core emphasis on USSD, SMS, mobile and web applications."  He developed a range of enterprise, e-commerce, and sports betting applications.

In 2012, he joined Orange Uganda where he worked on developing new applications to ensure better service delivery to customers.

In 2012, he won the bronze medal during the Orange Community Innovation Awards. The following year, he was among the top 40 African entrepreneurs selected by the US State Department's Global Innovation for Science and Technology (GIST). The same year, BrainShare was featured on CNN's list of the top 10 African startups.

He has been invited to speak at events organized by international institutions including the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

Melchior Koba