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Naveen Jain is a Forbes-ranking businessman who founded InfoSpace and Intellius, Inc. Since its founding in January 2003, Naveen Jain has led Intelius as chief executive officer. The company leverages publicly available background information for making important everyday decisions. Intelius’ services include background checks, pre-employment screening and criminal checks. Above all, Intelius supplies an award-winning service in identity theft protection. Before Intelius, there was InfoSpace. With limited financing, he launched InfoSpace in March 1996. It offered websites, like Lycos and AOL, a suite of content solutions which included horoscopes and stock quotes. Naveen Jain took the company public in 1998 and drove over 20 acquisitions afterwards. Naveen Jain had been a Microsoft Corporation employee prior to the inception of InfoSpace. From 1989 to 1996, he occupied a senior-level position at Bill Gates’ company. He immigrated to the US from India in 1982. Back in his native India, he studied at prestigious schools like the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee and the Xavier Labour Relations Institute in Jamshedpur. In the United States, his star burned brighter. As a businessman, Naveen Jain received nominations for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and the medal for the Albert Einstein Technology Award. Red Herring and Information Week recognized him with awards like Top Entrepreneur and Person Who Will Change the Net, respectively. Currently residing in Bellevue, Washington, Naveen Jain and his wife are active in philanthropic activities. When not rearing their three children, the couple funnels some of their funds at one point worth $8 billion to various nonprofit motives for education, children, and hunger alleviation. To wit, they have funded Child Rights and You India, United Way – King County, Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington, Overlake Service League, Indian American Education Foundation, Bellevue Boys and Girls Club, Hopelink, TreeHouse, University Preparatory Academy, and the Vedic Cultural Center.

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