Serial entrepreneur Naveen Jain is the man behind Intelius.com, a highly visited website that provides intelligence services using public records and documents.
He founded the company in January 2003, shortly after leaving another, which is the highly publicized content provider named InfoSpace, another corporate entity that he founded. Before he established both companies, Naveen Jain had worked in different companies from New Jersey to Washington, one of which was the Microsoft Corporation.
At Microsoft, Naveen Jain was engrossed with several operating systems like MS-DOS and Windows 95 as well as the company’s first online service, The Microsoft Network. He worked here from June 1989 until March 1996.
The successful entrepreneur now leads Intelius as its CEO. In recognition of his work with the company, Ernst & Young named him one of its finalists in its search for the 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year.
While not as massively profitable as InfoSpace, Intelius has made great gains as a privately traded firm, lauded by several publications for its fast revenue growth. True enough, Intellius is one of the fastest-growing private firms in the US, being part of Inc. Magazine’s yearly 500 list. It is even among North America’s most venerable firms, as part of Deloitte’s list of the 500 fastest-growing technological companies.
Married to Anu Jain, who is also of Indian heritage, Naveen Jain has three children. He recommended Anu to be the vice-president of Intelius’ philanthropic affairs.
The couple has made considerable contributions to many charitable groups in Washington, where they met in the 1980s. Naveen and Anu Jain, along with Intelius, has given to the Bellevue Boys and Girls Club, Indian American Education Foundation, Child Rights and You, Olive Crest, University of Washington, United Way, Hopelink, and the Seattle Children’s Hospital.
Naveen Jain holds office at Intelius’ global headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. In the 1990s, Information Week once called him one of the “Six People Who Would Change the Internet.”
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