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Intelius CEO and President Naveen Jain is a visionary entrepreneur who co-founded one of the most exciting IT companies in the Seattle area. An engineer by profession, he is backed by impressive credentials from Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA from Xavier School of Management. After being seasoned with technical expertise from a 7-year employment with Microsoft as senior executive, he ventured into relatively unknown territory in the world of information commerce.

In 1996, Naveen Jain founded InfoSpace, a company that delivers real world content for groups and Internet properties such as Lycos and AOL. He steered InfoSpace ahead of the competition, leading it to file an IPO in 1998 and acquire 24 companies in two years.

The IT industry took immediate notice of his brilliance and innovative excellence. At the height of his success at InfoSpace, he received honors as the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year, along with becoming one of the Top 20 Entrepreneurs of the digital world by Red Herring, and receiving the Albert Einstein Technology Medal. In 2000, he soared into Forbes Magazine’s list of America’s most affluent businessmen.

Seven years after InfoSpace, he dared again to tap another unexplored market. Seeing that in a globalized, high-tech world, one can never be too careful, security services are an immediate concern especially when confronted with daily decisions that concern people we work with or hire. Driven by his vision of transforming the Internet as a platform for providing real-time information security, Naveen Jain built Intelius in 2003, a company that supplies security-focused services such as background checks for consumers looking to hire tenants or childcare providers, and ensuring that they have no criminal records.

Today, the Bellevue-based Intellius is one of the leading companies in the online security category, ranked in the Top 50 by INC. Magazine and patronized by over eight million unique customers all over America.