Craig Fernandes

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Craig Fernandes is a former student at the University of Iowa in the United States who founded the Lock&Stock app along with his father, Ian Fernandes, as co-founder and COO, in 2017 and it is headquartered in Dubai, UAE. 
It is a mobile application in the educational sector intended to help students by discouraging the use of mobile phones during classes. They aim to reduce the use of cell phones by students and encourage their digital well-being by providing rewards and points when they stay off their phones.
Fernandes helps connect students with guaranteed fee waivers and partial scholarships at universities through his edtech platform SecureMyScholarship which had disbursed $6.3 million in scholarships as of July 2023. It works with almost all private universities in the U.A.E., such as the University of Wollongong in Dubai, Heriot-Watt University Dubai, University of Birmingham Dubai, and American University in Dubai, as well as 300 universities across the U.S. and the U.K. (Collected from public domain)