Naveen Jain is an Albert Einstein Technology Award-winning entrepreneur from India who is now living in Washington, USA. He founded the companies InfoSpace.com and Intelius, Inc. He is also a philanthropist, donating largely to nonprofit groups based around the Puget Sound area, where he has homes around Bellevue.

He is the present chief executive officer and president of Intelius, a firm that utilizes a database of publicly available records (telephone numbers, marriage certificates, etc.) to render intelligence services, employment screenings, and identity theft protection solutions. Intellius is an American Business Award winner no less for Best New Company, and nominee for Most Innovative Company. For his part, Naveen Jain gained a nomination to Ernst & Young’s prestigious award for 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year.

Naveen Jain reached a peak in popularity in the 1990s, for launching and leading the company InfoSpace. Many, including top websites, were drawn to the company’s unique offering of yellow pages, stock quotes, weather forecasts, horoscopes, and other web content. In 1997, Directory World announced Naveen Jain was among that year’s “most influential in yellow pages” and Red Herring put him in the league of Rupert Murdoch and Jeff Bezos as that year’s “Top Entrepreneurs.” Naveen Jain was so popular, he was called by the latter as “smarter than Bill Gates.”

InfoSpace started operations in the later years of the decade, which was characterized by a surge of dot-com companies in Wall Street. Naveen Jain grew richer with the rising tide of InfoSpace’s stock prices. By millennium’s beginning, he came to rank highly on the Forbes 400, with a personal worth at over $2 billion.

Just before embarking on InfoSpace, he managed the launch of The Microsoft Network in 1995. As a lower-ranking employee at Microsoft, he tackled operating systems such as Windows 95 and Windows NT.