><Jai Shekhawat
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Co-founder and CEO Jai Shekhawat has more than 20 years of experience with software development, information technology and management consulting. Jai is a two-time Supply & Demand Chain Executive “Pro to Know” and 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 such as Silicon India, Entrepreneur and Chicago Tribune. 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., with development and sales operations worldwide. 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.