The Chicago Booth Global Entrepreneurship Network, in association with the student-run Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Group, is pleased to announce the next Entrepreneurial Speaker Event with Jai Shekhawat, Co-founder and CEO of Fieldglass, Inc. Jai is a leading entrepreneur in the Chicagoland area and will share his experiences in making the move from a corporate career to a successful venture backed startup. The event will bring together Chicago Booth alumni and students who are current entrepreneurs, as well as those who are in the process of considering an entrepreneurial career.

Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Group & Chicago Booth Global Entrepreneurship Network

Where

Gleacher Center
Room 600
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, Illinois

Event Details

Jai Shekhawat has more than 20 years of experience with software development, information technology and management consulting. Jai currently serves on the Mayor’s Council of Technology Advisors (MCTA) for the City of Chicago. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences and has been profiled in publications. Under his leadership, Fieldglass received a Stevie Award for “Most Innovative Company in North America” in 2007. Prior to starting Fieldglass, Jai co-founded Quinnox, an IT and Business Process Outsourcing firm located in Naperville, Ill. Previously, he was a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Co. in Chicago where he served clients in various industries in the areas of corporate strategy, sales effectiveness, marketing and cross-border alliances. As head of operations at Syntel, a software services firm, he helped build the company to nearly 700 consultants as well as create an international sales and service delivery organization to provide application management services to the Global 2000. Jai holds a master’s in business administration with specializations in finance and strategy from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.; and a bachelor’s degree in management science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.

Cost

$8

Registration

Register Online

Deadline: 10/29/2009

Questions

Ravi Viswanathan 

rviswana@chicagobooth.edu