Naveen Jain is one of the most influential leaders in the IT industry today, garnering recognitions and awards such as Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Albert Einstein Technology Medal, to name a few. These prestigious awards demonstrate the business community’s high regard for his innovative style of leadership, business skills, and technical expertise. His name has become synonymous with change and innovation. A workaholic who works 16 hours a day Naveen Jain has been described as a “fireball of energy.”

Naveen Jain is now the CEO of founder of Intelius, an Internet company based in Bellevue, WA, which makes publicly available information online so people can use them to make intelligent decisions every day.

Indeed, the entrepreneur has come a long way from his native India. Before he came to the US, he obtained an Engineering undergraduate degree at the University of Roorkee. He furthered his studies and obtained an MBA at St. Xavier’s School of Management. In the late 80s, Microsoft hired him to become a project manager for the Microsoft Network where he became instrumental in its foundation.

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eeking to create a medium through which the Internet can be more consumer-relevant, he left Microsoft to form InfoSpace, a provider for Internet services. Under his helm, it later grew to become the primary telephone and address content provider for AOL, MSN, and other Web properties. Always in the pursuit of new ideas, he left InfoSpace to form a new company, Intelius, which offers individuals and businesses real-time access to data about people that can be utilized for background checks, identity verification, and similar purposes. By doing so, he has revolutionized the way people research personal information.

The many successes of his firm are proof of Naveen Jain’s hard work and determination. Intelius now stands as one of the top 100 commerce sites on the Internet. In 2006, Intelius was named one of the Top Private Companies by Washington CEO Magazine.