Exhibit 24.1

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of the undersigned, being a director of Genworth Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), hereby severally constitutes and appoints Thomas J. McInerney, Daniel J. Sheehan IV and Ward E. Bobitz and each of them individually, his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, 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 the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 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 and any amendments thereto, and all post-effective amendments and supplements to such Registration Statement, for the registration of 49,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, $0.001 par value per shares, under the 2021 Genworth Financial, Inc. Omnibus Incentive Plan, 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.

 

/s/ G. Kent Conrad   

May 20, 2021

G. Kent Conrad

Director

/s/ Karen E. Dyson   

May 20, 2021

Karen E. Dyson

Director

/s/ Jill R. Goodman   

May 20, 2021

Jill R. Goodman

Director

/s/ Melina E. Higgins   

May 20, 2021

Melina E. Higgins

Director

/s/ Howard D. Mills, III   

May 20, 2021

Howard D. Mills, III

Director

/s/ Debra J. Perry   

May 20, 2021

Debra J. Perry

Director

/s/ Robert P. Restrepo Jr.   

May 20, 2021

Robert P. Restrepo Jr.

Director

/s/ Ramsey D. Smith   

May 20, 2021

Ramsey D. Smith

Director