Jai is a successful serial entrepreneur with over 18 years of industry experience. His first startup Obongo was the pioneer in single sign-on and online wallet technologies. It was adopted by several leading banks and created a reach of over 40m users. Obongo was acquired by AOL where Jai served as the director of product marketing working on several key initiatives with a reach of over 35m users.

He was also a founder of AirTight Networks, executive/consulting VP at TheFind, Trackle, myTriggers, Permuto and several other companies.

Jai was recognized as one of the top 10 South Asian business and technology leaders along with Vinod Khosla, Narayana Murthy and others.

Jai holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur and an MS in Computer Science from Iowa State University. He holds 11 patents.

He is actively involved in mentoring and nurturing young entrepreneurs and spends a lot of time with TiE (http://www.tie.org) and IIT Alumni Association. He is a charter member of TiE Silicon Valley, Co-chair of TiE Internet SIG, VP marketing for IIT Alumni Association, content chair for TiEcon and IIT Kanpur Golden Jubilee conference.