Edwin Bruno is a Tanzanian entrepreneur and transformational leader passionate about Technology, Creative Marketing & Investment. He is the CVO & CEO of Smart Africa Group (SAG). Smart Africa Group is a conglomerate of interconnected platforms that solve African challenges through hybrid marketing, technology, product development, innovation & content creation to enable our clients and partners to make a mark in their industries.
He is the Founder and CEO Smart Codes, a digital transformation company with a mission to solve African challenges through technology and make a mark in everything we do across Africa.
He is an advisory committee member of the Tanzania Private Sector Foundation, established in order to promote private sector-led social and economic development in Tanzania.
He is also a Member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Tanzania as well as the CEO Roundtable of Tanzania.
Edwin pursued Private Equity and Venture Capital at Harvard Business School, which propelled him to think as an investor and build partnerships skewed to future investment readiness.
CEOs SHAPING TANZANIA: Peter Situmbeko Nalitolela, Chief Executive Officer, Dar es Salaam Stock ExchangeHe holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering at St. Joseph College of Engineering having majored in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics for his Advanced level Secondary school education.
While in his second year of software engineering studies, Edwin is said to have started his entrepreneurship journey, inspired by Salesforce’s mission to drive a cloud computing journey, moving from a hardware/software culture; which was super expensive, inefficient, and not scalable. He believed in Salesforce’s mission at that time, and he knew that was the future of tech.
