Naveen Jain's Intelius finalist in both the Best New Company and Best New Product

In 2006, The American Business Awards named Intelius, Inc.a finalist in both the Best New Company and Best New Product or Service categories. The American Business Awards, or the “Oscars of the business world,” is the only national, all-encompassing awards program recognizing outstanding performance in the business world.

The Awards received the nickname “Stevie” from the Greek word meaning crowned. The winners receive their crowns at the annual gala at New York City’s Marquis Hotel. The event will be broadcast on the radio, videocast on the internet, and include an additional 800 executives in attendance.

Over 1,500 companies from a variety of industries received a nomination for a Stevie Award. Intelius was considered in the Best New Product or Service category for its IDWatch product, which received recognition for its part in preventing and recognizing identity theft. The Best New Company category recognized Intelius as an emerging leader in its field and initial success in acquiring customers, driving revenue, and carving out and establishing a new market.

Founded in 2003, Intelius became a leading provider of information commerce services by providing businesses and consumers with predictive intelligence to enable better decision-making processes day to day. Due to the popularity of services from background checks to identity theft prevention, Intelius rapidly acquired more than 3 million unique customers and generating more than $40 million in revenue in its first three years of business..

“In only three years since launch, Intelius has helped millions of customers make more intelligent decisions about people, businesses and assets. In fact we are adding 200,000 new users month over month,” said CEO of Intelius, Naveen Jain. “Being named a Stevie Award finalist in two categories is a great source of pride for Intelius. It highlights the growth of our company and the value of our offerings, inspiring us to make intelligent decisions. We thank the American Business Awards for this recognition.”

Finalists for the awards received nominations from business professionals across the United States in earlier preliminary judging. The actual recipients of the awards will be decided by Members of the Awards’ Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors, and their staff.

Founder and President of the Stevie Awards, Michael Gallagher states that “Being named a Finalist in the American Business Awards is an important achievement.” He also stated, “It means that independent business executives have agreed that the nominee is worthy of national recognition. We congratulate all of the finalists on their achievement and wish them well in the competition.”

A group of visionaries and businessmen from InfoSpace and Microsoft founded Intelius with the mission to provide innovative, instant, and affordable intelligence for identity safety. Intelius customers can feel more comfortable and confident about the people they hire and associate with, as a result of criminal checks and accurate background information. Intelius also enables its customers to reunite with relatives and long-lost friends. Additionally, the services allow businesses to verify employment history and confirm credit records.

The Stevie Awards consist of three programs: The International Business Awards, The American Business Awards, and the Stevie Awards for Women Entrepreneurs. The “business world’s Oscars,” coined by the New York Post, honors all types and sizes of businesses. The goal of the award is to recognize the outstanding efforts made by men and women in the workplace on a worldwide scale.

Naveen Jain and Intelius in the News

Intelius, co-founded by Naveen Jain, often appears in the news. The following represent a sample of the news coverage of Intelius. Naveen Jain leads Intelius as its CEO.

In HRO Today, Where Business Leaders Make HR Decisions , published a special feature article about the five best practices for employment screening from Intelius. The practices include: (a) keep it simple; (b) one size never fits all; (c) there's no silver bullet; (d) comparison shop; and (e) ask questions. Intelius, co-founded by Naveen Jain , offers background check and employment screening services to provide the integration of intelligent information into everyday decisions. Ed Petersen, SVP at Intelius, provides the practices to follow.

Washingtonpost.com, the online version of a newspaper for the nation's capitol, published an article about online dating: "Dinner, Movie - and a Background Check - for Online Daters." The article includes a discussion of the growth of the dating security industry, because "Thirty-one percent of American adults say they know someone who has used a dating Web site, and nearly 60 percent of Internet users said they think a lot of online daters lie about their marital status," stated a Pew Internet & American Life Project study in 2006. Intelius, founded by Naveen Jain , finds customers interested in researching their online dates.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's John Cook, a reporter who covers Ventures and Regional Technology News, reported that Intelius acquired a Bothell company. Cook includes a comment from Intelius' Chief Executive Naveen Jain about the acquisition strengthening Intelius' employment screening category: "IntelliSense supplements our existing capabilities nicely by expanding a diverse set of services that our enterprise customers have asked for. Employment screening is a critical, rapidly growing part of our business and we will continue to make the necessary investments to ensure we are offering out customers an industry-leading portfolio of services."

More Naveen Jain News

The Washington Post reports that Google will expand its newspaper ad program after its pilot program exceeded its expectations. Intelius, a web company in Bellevue, Washington, is placing ads through Google's newspaper ad program. Ed Peterson, executive vice president of sales and marketing for Intelius, stated that the company has been pleased with the results. Intelius' business grew through the use of online advertising with Google, and the company sees newspapers as a way to continue expansion. Naveen Jain co-founded Intelius with other visionaries from Microsoft and InfoSpace.

NBC5.com, the site for WMAQ TV Chicago, aired a weekend web segment about "High-Tech Protection." The "Web Guys" spoke with Dr. Natalie L. Petouhoff who specializes in protecting consumers who use high tech gagets. Dr. Petouhoff earned her degree in High Energy Particle Physics from UCLA, but the conversation centered on consumer protection from dumpster divers, online scammers, and identity theft hackers. Dr. Petouhoff showed the web guys how to use www.intelius.com to do a background check on a nanny. Naveen Jain founded Intelius to provide the integration of intelligent information for personal safety.

In New York, Paul Harris wrote an article entitled "The latest must-have accessory for New York's daters - a private eye" for The Observer. In addition to discussing private investigators, the article also explores information services companies such as Intelius. According to Harris, Intelius specifically targets daters, with 38% of its customers running background checks on dates or romantic partners. Intelius, co-founded by Naveen Jain , specializes in providing intelligent information for everyday decisions.

Naveen Jain Information:

Time, Inc.net and Business 2.0 published a feature about Naveen Jain entitled, Naveen Jain Is the Greatest High-Tech Entrepreneur of All Human History (And if you don't believe it, just ask him.)

Washington Post's Leslie Walker provides an article about identity theft and Naveen Jain, founder of Intelius, and his efforts to help people protect themselves from becoming victims of information thievery.

BusinessWeek provides a profile of Naveen Jain as part of its BW E.BIZ: Movers & Shakers series. The article discusses Jain's company taking the content it already provides and making it available wirelessly.

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.