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Naveen Jain has been in the business world for almost three decades now. From India, he braved the United States to try his hand on the emerging US information technology market. Equipped with his bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations, he first worked at the Burroughs Corporation in New Jersey.

His first big break came when he was hired as project manager for Microsoft Corporation, based in Seattle, Washington. There, Naveen Jain was able to showcase his brilliant ideas and innovative thinking by working in projects such as the Windows ‘95, Windows NT, MAC-OS and the Microsoft Network. For the MSN project, Jain served as the group manager.

Emulating the path that his former boss William Gates took, the man from India tried his hand at entrepreneurship. With seven years worth of experience under his belt, Naveen Jain, with some of his Microsoft colleagues, founded InfoSpace, a company that provides back-end technology for private directory services like AOL and MSN. He stayed as the company’s CEO until 2002 and founded his next entrepreneurial venture called Intelius.

Intelius is a company that provides information, specifically about people. Their service helps companies in doing their hiring, parents in securing their children by knowing sex offenders around their area, and even regular adults by providing background checks on their possible date partners. The company also helps friends, families, and relatives reconnect with old friends or relatives whom they have not gotten in touch with for years. Both companies that Naveen Jain founded have had their fair share of success. The current one, Intelius, has earned the respect and admiration of various award-giving bodies.

Naveen Jain’s trail has been one of success whenever he went. And with his innovative thinking and his hard working personality, he and his company are proving they are here to stay.