| Birthdate | 1980 |
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Naveen Jain is a philanthropist, entrepreneur and a technology pioneer.
Naveen Jain is founder of Moon Express, Intelius and InfoSpace. He is Co-Chairman at X Prize Foundation for “Education and Global Developmentâ€. Naveen serves on the board of Singularity University, Coastal Aviation Software and Flow Mobile. He is a member of Pacific Council on International Policy.
Naveen Jain has been awarded many honors for his entrepreneurial successes and leadership skills including “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Yearâ€, “Albert Einstein Technology Medal†for pioneers in technology, “Top 20 Entrepreneurs†by Red Herring, “Six People Who Will Change the Internet†by Information Week.
His success with Intelius has earned such accolades as “Best New Company†by the American Business Awards, Puget Sound Business Journal’s “One of Washington’s Top Three Best Workplacesâ€, “Rising Star†in Deloitte & Touche’s Technology Fast 500 Program, “America’s Top 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies†by Inc. Magazine and has been listed amongst the top 15 Corporate Philanthropists in the community.
Naveen Jain is currently focused on finding ways to use advances in science to solve some of the problems that on the surface look like infrastructural problems. Naveen is in the process of setting up an incentive prize challenge to develop “Digital Doctor†(AI based expert system) to improve access to primary care physician around the world (a little more information attached). He is also exploring ways to develop a Neurometric system to create better learners (slightly more information attached) and to develop Neuroscience based multi-sensory video games that are effective and additive to teach students skills like math, science and history. Naveen continues to believe that we should be able to create bio-factories to reduce shortage of food and use Synthetic biology to create Microbes that can help with clean water and to generate energy from plentiful resources like ocean water.
