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Intelius CEO Naveen Jain mingled with peers at the Kairos Summit gala held at Pier 86 in New York City last April 2009. He joined the likes of Legendary Pictures founder Scott Mednick, AEA Investors managing director Bill Owens, DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman, and Council on Competitiveness President Deborah Wince-Smith in addressing budding collegiate entrepreneurs who converged in New York from all over the country.

Merrymaking aboard the storied USS Intrepid, the veteran entrepreneurs essentially represented over a millennium of professional experience. Former US President Bill Clinton and Microsoft founder Bill Gates even appeared via satellite to deliver opening remarks.

Five hundred college students convened at the historic ship to hear the speakers. Later into the celebration, several students marched to the stage to receive plums and recognitions.

Nonprofit organization Kairos Society put up the summit to stoke up the enterprising spirits of college students. Formed by college students, Kairos Society has assembled some of the exceptionally smart businesspersons from Harvard, Columbia, Tufts, MIT, Stanford, Claremont McKenna, University of Pennsylvania, Duke, NYU, Emory, USC, Furman, Scripps, and colleges and universities. In the same way, the organization is steered by an advisory board of business luminaries including Xoom founder Chris Kitze and McKinsey & Co. managing director Rajat Gupta.

Ankur Jain, son of Naveen Jain, founded Kairos Society in 2007. He is now in his second year at Wharton.

His father built Intelius in 2003 as a provider of public intelligences like background checks, employee screens, people searches, and so forth. One of the fastest-growing businesses of Washington, Intellius has rounded up eight million clients since its founding.

Apart from Naveen Jain, Bill White was also a guest at the summit. He presides over the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, which manages the party’s historic space.