Mana Group is a financial technology business group working across executive search, venture building, investment, and research. Its activities focus on the people, businesses, and technologies shaping financial services, including blockchain, decentralized systems, and artificial intelligence.
Background
The group brings together Mana Search, Mana Venture Partners, and Mana Lab, alongside the Searching for Mana podcast. Its founder and CEO Lloyd Wahed has led Mana Group since 2017. Mana Search, which lists London as its headquarters, also dates its founding to 2017.
The group's structure combines talent acquisition with venture investment and exploration of how technology changes work. Its connection to the crypto sector spans recruitment for blockchain businesses, investment interests in decentralized systems, and discussions with digital asset industry participants.
Executive Search and Talent Advisory
Mana Search is the group's executive search and talent advisory business. It specializes in financial technology and blockchain, working with companies backed by venture capital and growth equity investors.
Its recruitment activities include C-suite searches and building teams across engineering, data analytics, product, and commercial functions.
Venture Building and Investment
Mana Venture Partners is the group's venture building and investment division. It works with entrepreneurs and venture capital firms on businesses focused on the future of finance.
Research and the Future of Work
Mana Lab is the group's exploratory arm, focused on collaboration, technology, and the future of work. It examines how people and technology can work together to support creativity and efficiency. The group also identifies artificial intelligence and blockchain-based decentralized systems among its areas of interest.
Searching for Mana Podcast
Searching for Mana is hosted by Lloyd Wahed and features conversations with founders, investors, and policymakers. Its subjects include artificial intelligence, digital assets, global finance, government, and the changing role of institutions.
The podcast extends the group's activity into interviews and industry discussion, exploring how businesses and technologies are built, scaled, and implemented.
