Manu founded Arnifi in April 2024 after co-founding Fincobox, a fintech SME-financing company. In under two years, Arnifi has grown into the UAE's #2 corporate services provider by transaction volume — operating across 12 markets, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and the Cayman Islands, with over 1,200 companies incorporated and a 100+ person team.
Education: Masters of Business, Finance, IIM Ahmedabad (2008–2010) · Exchange student, Texas McCombs School of Business (2009–2010)
Recognition: IFZA Business Growth Recognition Award, for contribution to business growth and long-term partnerships
Manu built Arnifi specifically to solve a problem he'd lived personally — after building and exiting a fintech company across borders, he saw firsthand how fragmented and opaque cross-border entity setup actually is. Arnifi's answer was a genuine technology platform, not just a service wrapper: ArniOS, described as the first full-stack operating system built for global corporate services providers to manage customer workflows, compliance deadlines, and payments at scale, and Arni Organogram, an AI tool that maps entity structures across jurisdictions and surfaces tax considerations automatically.
Before Arnifi, Manu's operating background runs directly through GCC market entry itself — three and a half years setting up and scaling OYO across four GCC countries, category and marketplace leadership at Souq.com in Dubai, and strategic planning experience scaling an e-commerce platform across Asia and the Middle East at Infibeam.
For TGC, Manu is the direct human proof behind the Land pillar — someone who has both built the market-entry infrastructure businesses actually use, and personally run market entry and scaling operations across the GCC before that.
Manu's work at Arnifi is directly integrated into how TGC handles market entry and entity formation.
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