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Naveen Jain

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Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, visionary and a technology pioneer.

Naveen Jain is fouder of Moon Express and Intelius. Previosuly, Naveen Jain founded InfoSpace. Naveen Jain took InfoSpace public in 1998 on the NASDAQ and served as CEO until he left to start Intelius. Before starting InfoSpace, Naveen Jain was a senior executive at Microsoft Corporation.

Naveen Jain is Co-Chairman of “Education and Global Development” at the X Prize Foundation where he is focused on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address the global challenges in education, poverty, agriculture, health, and clean water. Naveen Jain is a trustee of the board of Singularity University, an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to educate and inspire leaders to address humanity’s grand challenges through innovative technologies.

Naveen Jain also serves as a director on the board of Coastal Aviation Software and Flow Mobile. Flow Mobile is dedicated to bringing innovative mobile broadband service to under-served and un-served rural towns across the country. Naveen Jain is also 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 Year”, “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 Workplaces”, “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. He is also exploring ways to develop a Neurometric system to create better learners 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.

Milestones

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  Naveen Jain added a position as cofounder, Chairman at Moon Express Inc. (1/1/10)
  Posted 4/4/11 at 6:38pm
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  Naveen Jain added a position as Program Manager at Microsoft.
  Posted 5/29/08 at 4:06pm
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  Naveen Jain added a position as Founder and CEO at Infospace.
  Posted 5/29/08 at 3:01pm
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  Naveen Jain added a position as Chief Executive Officer at Intelius.
  Posted 5/29/08 at 2:27pm
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  Naveen Jain — Naveen Jain joined as a trustee of the board of Singularity University, an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to educate and inspire leaders to address humanity’s grand challenges through innovative technologies. (4/14/10)
  Posted 3/28/11 at 5:38am via singularityu.org
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  Naveen Jain — Naveen joined as a Co-Chairman of Educational and Global Development at X Prize Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire and transform the radical breakthroughs in the areas of education, exploration, and sustainability. (3/6/10)
  Posted 3/28/11 at 5:34am via xprize.org

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1. Xprize Foundation (xprize.org) [edit]
2. Singularity University (singularityu.org) [edit]