168:, California to begin his time at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is part of the Africa Business club and has been working on a financial technology project to launch in Tanzania. In January 2016, he was selected by TRUE Africa as one of the "Top 16 Africans leading change in 2016.". Shortly after, FastJet airlines featured his work in Tanzania in their online airline magazine. He was listed as a "Voice of Hope for Tanzania." In March 2016, he was selected to attend the MBA World Summit in Miami, Florida, and, at the conference, he was awarded as the best speaker for the event. He was presented with the MBA World Summit Award for 2016.
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other school in the world. His decision to return home was covered all over the press in
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At the age of 24, Fernandes founded NALA, where he currently serves as founder and CEO. NALA is, an international financial technology company that enables people and businesses to make cross-border payments between the USA, UK and Europe to Africa. Nala was the first East
African fintech company to
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University of Northwestern. After Northwestern, he returned to Tanzania and volunteered as a community
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Tanzania, with over 22,000 people in cumulative attendance. Government officials show up in support of Fernandes' youth initiatives around the country and Fernandes started to focus on women empowerment by engaging
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Tanzania, Since 2015, Fernandes and his sister have hosted over 1000 graduate students from the United States. Every year, he hosts a trek with graduate students from Stanford and Harvard in Tanzania, hiking up
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in the UK. In 2022, NALA became one of the first
African tech companies to sign contracts with Apple Pay and Google Pay. In 2023, NALA announced their recent partnership with Mpesa. This enables 21 countries around the world to send money directly to Mpesa wallets.
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