Harada has served as science and technology writer for seventeen years at leading publications such as Asia Pacific Economic Review, Asian Entrepreneurs Network, and Northwest Asian Weekly.
He has been a founding member of several leading Internet and mobile technology companies, and has often served as a director, business development, and communications executive for these companies.
Kenji Harada and Jain met at the introduction of David Pool, then co-founder of Compuserve and board member and Bob Mccausland, then CEO, Freei Networks. He met Jain as a founding member of FreeInternet, one of the largest internet service providers in the U.S. in the late 90s and 2000 with over 3 million subscribers nationally. Naveen was Chairman of the Board and investor. Chris reported to the board on occasion and was head of Asia Pacific operations for FreeInternet.
Harada recently published an article about Jain's career in a local weekly publication in which he was nominated and awarded the 2016 Asian Technology and Innovation Award. This collaboration inspired Naveen and Chris to jointly write this book. In addition to magazines and newspapers, Chris has been published previously by the the U.S. - Japan Foundation and National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
He was Editor/ co-Publisher, and technology reporter for the Asia Pacific Economic Review for ten years in the 1990s. During this time, he reported and published landmark stories as a member of the first official U.S. trade mission after President Clinton normalized trade relations with Viet Nam, post war Cambodia, and the peace treaty negotiated between President Fidel Ramos, Speaker Jose De Venecia, Jr., and Islamic rebel leaders in Mindanao, Philippines. Harada also led technology company trade missions which included meetings with country Presidents and Ministers throughout the Asia Pacific region.
Collectively, Chris drove sales and new business development for mobile and Internet businesses such as Freei Networks Ltd. (FreeInternet.com, now NetZero; see NASDAQ: NZRO), Bluzinger LLC, Media Lead LLC, Media Portal Japan (Softbank/ Toshiba JV subsidiary), eOrbis/ Orbis Online, Handheld Games, and MZinger LLC. He is co-founder of three of these companies.
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Naveen Jain became an Internet billionaire as founder of Infospace, Intellius, Talentwise, Moon Express, and BlueDot/ Viome. He is a contributing writer to Forbes Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and INC. Magazine.
Naveen is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovation. He is the founder of several successful companies including Moon Express, BlueDot, Intelius, Talent Wise and InfoSpace. He also served as Chairman of Freei Networks Ltd. (FreeInternet).
He has been awarded many honors for his entrepreneurial successes and leadership skills including “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year”, “Albert Einstein Technology Medal” for pioneers in technology, “Humanitarian Innovation Award” at the United Nations, “Distinguished Global Thinker Award” by IILM, “Most inspiring Entrepreneur” by Andaaz TV, “Most admired Serial Entrepreneur” by Silicon India, “Top 20 Entrepreneurs” and “Lifetime Achievement Award” for the leadership in the technology industry and support of other entrepreneurs by Red Herring.
Moon Express is the only company to have permission from the US government to leave earth orbit and land on the moon. It has developed a robotic lunar probe and lunar lander to harvest planetary resources on the moon for the benefit of humanity.
Naveen is a trustee of the board and vision circle member at the X PRIZE Foundation where he is focused on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address the global challenges in health, education, poverty, agriculture, and energy. He is on the board of Singularity University, an interdisciplinary university with the mission to educate and inspire leaders to address humanity’s grand challenges through innovative technologies.
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We have completed 1/3 of the book, and we have a new executive/ angel investor from Silicon Valley joining what is now a 3-person authorship. Miten Mehta worked with Naveen Jain during formative periods of his businesses, especially as VP of Business Development at InfoSpace where I met them both. We are meeting up for Q & As at the end of May to offer the personal story of Naveen's life experience in India and his move to the U.S. We plan to add a few other success life stories of immigrants who have contributed greatly to the business success in the U.S.
Finally, due to these additional topics it might warrant a change in title as well.
In any case, thanks for your ongoing support. Onward and upward, Chris Kenji