Intelius: One of the Top 150 Private Companies in Washington

Washington CEO magazine’s May 2006 Private 150 included the information commerce company Intelius in its rankings. Intelius’ rapid growth and leadership in the previous three years resulted in its recognition by the selection committee.

Customers use Intelius’ products and services to make informed, intelligent decisions about people, businesses, and assets since the company’s inception in 2003. The offerings include background checks and Intelius’ award winning identity theft detection and prevention service, IDWatch. The resources offered by Intelius have approximately 4 million unique, paying users since the launch of the company in 2003. The growth rate of Intelius’ customer base numbers over 200,000 new users month over month and a little less than a third of its daily business comes from returning customers.

Naveen Jain, CEO and co-founder of Intelius, stated: “We founded Intelius with a goal to build an enterprise that provides services that are good for our customers, our community, and our country while doing well for our employees and shareholders.” Jain continued, “We provide our users a wealth of critical information, enabling better decisions about protecting their loved ones, identity, and assets. Inclusion in Washington CEO’s Private 150 underscores that we are well on our way to achieving our goal through customer loyalty, rapid growth, and leadership.”

Intelius provides instant, innovative, and affordable research services and background information for personal safety purposes. Started by a group of visionaries, Intelius facilitates informed decisions about the people clients interact with through background and criminal checks. Other applications of Intelius’ services include locating long-lost relatives and friends, researching the backgrounds of the people in their world. Business applications include employment and tenancy verification, employment screening and credit record checks.

Naveen Jain – Chief Executive Officer

Naveen Jain, CEO -- Naveen Jain is CEO at Intelius, Inc., an information commerce company he founded in January of 2003. Jain brings to Intelius a critical vision of integrating intelligent, predictive information for making important everyday decisions. Intelius’ services include background checks, pre-employment screening, criminal checks and an award-winning identity theft prevention service.

Naveen has a visionary perspective on the future of the Internet, and on the ways the Web and technology can deliver information that can revolutionize the way consumers and businesses make decisions and mitigate risk. Throughout the course of his career, Jain has been recognized numerous times for his vision and business acumen.

He has received the Ernst &Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, was named one of the Top 20 Entrepreneurs by Red Herring, one of the “6 People Who Will Change the Net” by Information Week and was recognized as Albert Einstein Technology Medal Winner.

Jain is actively engaged in philanthropic activities. He is involved in and contributes to an assortment of organizations relating to children, education and solving hunger, including United Way, Children’s Hospital, the University of Washington and CRY India.

Previous to Intelius, Jain launched InfoSpace (March 1996), taking the company public on the Nasdaq National Market and driving 24 acquisitions. Previous to InfoSpace, he served as a senior executive at Microsoft Corporation (June 1989 to March 1996). Jain also holds patents for several innovative technologies related to operating systems and applications.

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