Exhibit 24.1

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned, being a director or officer of Genworth Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby severally constitutes and appoints Michael D. Fraizer, Victor C. Moses and Leon E. Roday, and each of them individually, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place and stead in any and all capacities, to sign a Registration Statement on Form S-3 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or on such other form as such attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, may deem necessary or desirable, any amendments thereto, and all post-effective amendments and supplements to such Registration Statement, for the registration of the securities of the Company, each in such form as they or any one of them may approve, and to file the same with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them individually, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done to the end that such Registration Statement shall comply with the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the applicable Rules and Regulations adopted or issued pursuant thereto, as fully and to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, as any of them or their substitute or resubstitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has hereunto set his or her hand on the date indicated below.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/    MICHAEL D. FRAIZER        

Michael D. Fraizer

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and

Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

  October 19, 2006

/s/    VICTOR C. MOSES        

Victor C. Moses

  

Senior Vice President, Chief Actuary and

Acting Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial Officer)

  October 19, 2006

/s/    SCOTT R. LINDQUIST        

Scott R. Lindquist

  

Vice President and Controller

(Principal Accounting Officer)

  October 19, 2006

/s/    FRANK J. BORELLI        

Frank J. Borelli

   Director   October 19, 2006

/s/    NANCY J. KARCH        

Nancy J. Karch

   Director   October 19, 2006

/s/    J. ROBERT KERREY        

J. Robert Kerrey

   Director   October 19, 2006


Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/s/    SAIYID T. NAQVI        

Saiyid T. Naqvi

   Director   October 19, 2006

/s/    JAMES A. PARKE        

James A. Parke

   Director   October 24, 2006

/s/    JAMES S. RIEPE        

James S. Riepe

   Director   October 19, 2006

/s/    BARRETT A. TOAN        

Barrett A. Toan

   Director   October 19, 2006

/s/    THOMAS B. WHEELER        

Thomas B. Wheeler

   Director   October 19, 2006