With the idea of “intelligently integrating information online,” Naveen Jain gives his clients critical information for them to make sound decisions, decrease risks, and acquire protection in their lives and ventures, and locates people, through his highly-acclaimed online information service provider, Intelius.
The company retrieves information from available public records piled in their updated vast database. This data allows the company to search and verify people’s backgrounds. Other services available are a complete employment screening and identity theft protection. Houseowners are alerted of deceitful contractors, families are aware who they cannot entrust their family members with, and people are reunited with long lost relatives and friends.
Born in Uttar Pradesh, India, Naveen Jain migrated to the US via a business exchange program. He worked for Microsoft Corporation in 1989, launched MSN under Bill Gates, and later created InfoSpace in 1996, a company offering a range of Internet software and application services to client Websites like MSN, Go Network, AOL, Netscape, CNET’s Snap, Lycos, and NBC. He co-founded Intelius in January 2003 with some IT experts and he serves as its CEO.
Information technology leader Naveen Jain frequently contributes to organizations protecting and empowering the community and its members. As a philanthropist, he supports charities benefiting children and young people like the Seattle Children’s Hospital, Bellevue Boys and Girls Club, Youthcare, University Preparatory Academy, Kindering Center, and Child Rights and You. He endowed scholarships to business, engineering and computer science students of the University of Washington. To give back to his native land India, he grants financial assistance to the Indian American Education Foundation, CRY India, and the Vedic Cultural Center. His other beneficiaries include United Way, Tree House, Rotary Club, Hopelink, and Eastside Domestic Violence Center.
Puget Sound Business Journal cites Intelius as one of the 15 most generous corporate philanthropists for 2008 alone as it gave almost $210,000 to charities.