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Naveen Jain is in a league of his own when one talks about technologies engaged in collecting, interpreting, and delivering information online to customers and businesses. His brainchild is Intelius, Inc., an electronic information commerce industry that operates to provide information and services to customers to keep them informed and to help them make sound decisions about assets, people, and businesses. Naveen Jain was born on September 6, 1959 in India. He obtained a degree in engineering from the University of Roorkee and got his MBA from St. Xavier’s School of Management. In 1979, he left for the United States through a business-exchange program that sought to look into the emerging high-technology market in the United States. Naveen Jain first joined Burroughs Corporation (now Unisys) in New Jersey and then served as a senior executive for Microsoft in Redmonton, Washington in 1989. During his 7-year stint at Microsoft, Naveen Jain helped establish the MSN Network, initially introduced as a competitor to America Online and then later on developed to compete with Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. In 1996, Naveen Jain went on to form InfoSpace, a metasearch and private label Internet search company, and he served as the company’s CEO. InfoSpace aims to provide telephone directories and other relevant information to several Internet service enterprises such as the MSN Network and AOL. Naveen Jain stepped down as CEO in 2002 but he stayed to serve on the firm’s board of directors until June 2005. In 2003, Naveen Jain created Intellius, a company that catered directly to consumers. Intelius is unlike InfoSpace, which is a company that handles Internet businesses upon which the consumers rely on. Intelius features a wide portfolio of products and services including background checks and Intelius’ IDWatch, an identity theft prevention and detection service. Today, the company has an increasing customer base, with 200,000 new users coming in every month.