Born and raised in India, Naveen Jain migrated to the United States in 1982. Jain had been working in New Jersey for seven years before he headed west to work for Bill Gates’ Microsoft Corporation, where he was busy working on operating systems and other applications. In the long run, he was able to acquire patent rights for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Right after he finished working with the MS-DOS team, he took part in launching the Microsoft Network (MSN).

After his career at Microsoft Corporation, Jain went through two business ventures. The latest is Intelius, an information commerce company based in Bellevue, Washington. The company offers background reports, people search reports, criminal checks, neighborhood reviews, and identity theft protection services to both commercial and individual consumers in and out of the state. Naveen Jain founded the company in January 2003.

Prior to Intelius, Jain launched InfoSpace in March 1996. Generally, the company’s startup consisted of web content developers who catered to clients such as Lycos, AOL and MSN. Before leaving InfoSpace, Jain managed to accumulate a number of recognitions in the company’s behalf. In the later part of the 1990s, Jain was included as one of Information Week’s “Six People Who Would Change the Net”. Together with Jeff Bezos and Sir Rupert Murdoch, Jain was declared as one of 1997’s Best Entrepreneurs by Red Herring magazine. Eventually, he was included in Forbes Magazine’s list of the 400 Richest Americans in 2000. As for his outstanding leadership in Intelius, Naveen Jain earned a nomination in the Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year for 2006.

Naveen Jain finished his postgraduate degree at the Xavier Labour Relations Institute in Jamshedpur, an industrial city in Jharkhand, India. His engineering degree came from the Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee.