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Naveen Jain, Chief Executive Officer of Intelius, Inc.

Naveen Jain founded Intelius, Inc. in January of 2003, as an information commerce company. He serves as the organization’s chief executive officer and leads the company with a vision of integrating and delivering intelligent, predictive information online, empowering consumers and businesses with the information they need to make decisions about the people, businesses and assets in their world.. Services provided by Intelius include background checks, people search, reverse phone lookup, a comprehensive pre-employment screening suite, and IDWatch, an identity theft detection, prevention and insurance service. Mr. Jain’s perspective on the Internet includes the belief that the Internet and technology will continue to play increasingly critical roles in the delivery of valuable information to people and businesses across the world. This will drive a change in the decision-making processes and risk-mitigation procedures for consumers as well as businesses in the future.

Throughout the course of his career thus far, Jain has garnered recognition for his vision, leadership and business acumen. He has twice been recognized by the Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year awards program, was counted among Red Herring’s Top 20 Entrepreneurs and Information Week’s “6 People Who Will Change the Net”. He was also awarded the Albert Einstein Technology Medal.

Nonprofit and community organizations benefit from Naveen Jain’s dedication to philanthropy. Mr. Jain is highly-involved in causes with specific focuses on the basic needs of children, childhood education, and safety through organizations such as United Way, Children’s Hospital, and CRY India. Mr. Jain also firmly believes in giving back to his community, which can be seen, for example, in his development of a scholarship program at the University of Washington as well as his regular involvement in local and regional organizations dedicated to basic family needs, technology and education.

In March 1996, before launching Intelius, Naveen Jain started InfoSpace. InfoSpace went publicwith a listing on Nasdaq, and during his time there, Mr. Jain drove 24 acquisitions. Jain also served as a senior executive at Microsoft Corporation from June 1989 to March 1996. He holds several patents for technological innovations surrounding operating systems.


Etag.net is a Naveen Jain web site. Naveen Jain co-founded Intelius with others from Microsoft and InfoSpace. Naveen Jain leads Intelius as its CEO. Other information about Naveen Jain includes his professional accomplishments. Naveen Jain works to integrate information and technology, providing intelligent information for everyday decisions. Naveen Jain is part of the 1979 graduating class of the Indian Institute of Technology.