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Jai Rawat is a technology entrepreneur, innovator and public figure who has founded several successful technology companies, has authored many patents and is a frequent speaker at technology and entrepreneurial conferences.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=610770&privcapId=114667810 )〕 He is currently the co-founder and CEO of ShopSocially.〔("ShopSocially" )〕 He is also a charter member of TiE〔("The Indus Entrepreneurs" )〕 (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and sits on the advisory boards of several companies. He has received several awards and recognitions for his contributions. == Professional career == Rawat began his professional career at LSI Corporation in 1993 as a software engineer where he helped create some of the most advanced Electronic Design Automation tools. Rawat started his first company, Obongo with Samir Palnitkar in 1999. Obongo was an online identity management service offering single sign-on, eWallet and email spam control. It soon attracted a lot of attention from the top silicon valley investors and was funded by Sequoia Capital. Obongo generated a reach of over 40 million users before getting acquired by AOL in 2001. As a senior executive at AOL, Rawat led the teams driving AOL's online commerce and mobile strategy. In 2003 Rawat co-founded another company, AirTight Networks. AirTight provides secure Wi-Fi solutions and is being used by hundreds of businesses such as Pinkberry, Garden Fresh, John. C. Lincoln Hospitals, and MTA New York City Transit. Rawat then decided to help other startups and became an executive consultant or advisor to many technology companies. These include TheFind.com,〔("TheFind.com" )〕 BuySight〔("BuySight" )〕 (acquired by AOL), Nimble Commerce,〔("Nimble Commerce" )〕 Trackle, Nanolane,〔("Nanolane" )〕 Vividha 〔("Vividha" )〕 and Story Truck.〔("Story Truck" )〕 Rawat then went on to start another company, ShopSocially in 2009 and is currently the CEO of ShopSocially. Rawat has also been very active in several non-profit organizations promoting entrepreneurship and mentoring others. He has been a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) since 2003. He also chairs TiEcon,〔("TiEcon" )〕 which is the largest conference in the world for entrepreneurs. Under his leadership TiEcon was recognized as a top 10 conference in the world on ideas and innovation along with TED and World Economic Forum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.worth.com/index.php/component/content/article/2-make/2911-10-best-conferences-for-ideas-and-entrepreneurship )〕 TiEcon speakers include Marissa Mayer, Vinod Khosla, Sal Khan, Deepak Chopra, Sam Pitroda and Steve Case. Rawat was also the president of IIT Kanpur Alumni Association for a number of years and was also a founding member of Pan IIT organization.〔("Pan IIT" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jai Rawat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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