Naveen Jain: Unleashing Information Power
Naveen Jain is the dynamic and charismatic leader of the Bellevue, Washington-based firm Intelius, Inc., a leading information commerce company that provides online intelligence services such as background checks, screening, verification, and people search tools. With his intelligence, innovative approach, and personal charisma, Naveen Jain never fails to commands attention, whether among his employees or peers. When he speaks, everyone listens to what he has to say.
Before leading Intelius, Naveen Jain shot to national prominence as the daring founder of InfoSpace, which he formed in 1996 following his split with Microsoft and acknowledged role model, Bill Gates. Building on Microsoft’s OEM model, Naveen Jain capitalized on providing infrastructure services to large Web properties such as Lycos, AOL, Microsoft, Disney/InfoSeek’s GO Network, NBC’s Snap, Go2Net Inc., DoubleClick, Dow Jones and ABC LocalNet, among others.
For his significant technological contributions, particularly for revolutionizing the distribution of information, Naveen Jain keynoted the Andrew Seybold’s Summit 4Mobility 2000, with an address entitled “The Wireless Internet Economy-Developing the Platform for Commerce On Wireless Devices.” Addressing highly prominent members of the technology world who attended the convention, Naveen Jain described the future of so-called portal sites as information sources especially in connection with the world’s increasing mobility. Naveen Jain’s InfoSpace transformed the way information became accessible to the ordinary user by supplying what web pages lack — relevant and useful real-world content. InfoSpace.com provided for this lack by producing content from horoscopes to weather or stock forecasts for established websites.
India-born Naveen Jain is considered a wizard of the information industry because of his capacity to concoct simple ideas and turn them into multimillion dollar ventures. Following the success of InfoSpace, he built another information company called Intelius in 2003, which supplies online intelligence information to millions of American users. People turn to the firm’s comprehensive suite which includes background checks, people search, screening, verification, and identity protection.
