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The Path to Entrepreneurship - It Isn't Straight, and It Isn't Easy
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Founder and former CEO of Fieldglass, a cloud platform for the management of contingent labor and services. Under his leadership, Fieldglass grew globally with users in 150 countries making it the largest firm worldwide in the Services Procurement Software category. He was Ernst & Young's 2012 Midwest Entrepreneur of the Year. Fieldglass was also recognized as the Illinois Venture Capital Association's 2014 Private Equity Portfolio Company of the Year. The company was acquired by SAP for $1billion. Jai was previously with McKinsey & Company where he served clients in areas of corporate strategy, technology and cross-border alliances. He is a former senior executive at Syntel, a software services firm in Michigan and a co-founder of Quinnox, an application outsourcing firm here in Chicago, Illinois.
Jai is a Trustee and on the Executive Committee of the Field Museum of Chicago, a Trustee of the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, serves on the Boards of P33 Chicago as well as 1871 (Chicago's entrepreneurial hub for digital startups) and is a member of the Commercial Club, the Economic Club of Chicago and a Patron of Indiaspora. He is Chairman of the Technology Advisory Board for Madison Dearborn Partners. He holds an MBA with specializations in finance and strategy from the Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor's degree in management science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India.
If you are interested in private investing or entrepreneurship, or what you do now to set up your future career, you will find this conversation informative. Please join us for lunch and a discussion on the state of investment management, financial markets, and the role of innovation in finance more broadly.
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