Mr. Jain brings with him strong skills in engineering, technology, business strategy, leadership, entrepreneurship, negotiation, deal making, financial analysis and client management. His experience includes engineering, technology, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, valuations, raising capital, joint ventures and executive management. He also has experience in technology management, commercialization of technology and in using financial management techniques to fine-tune business strategy.

Prior to SMG, Mr. Jain worked for eight years at The Geneva Companies (a member of CitiGroup and an affiliate of SalomonSmithBarney, later part of Morgan Stanley). He worked in senior level positions in middle-market mergers, acquisitions and valuations. He started a number of different groups, activities and businesses and diversified the company’s activities. As Managing Director of Mergers & Acquisitions, he started and managed Geneva’s buy-side activity for two years. He developed clients in Defense/Aerospace, Technology/IT and Pharmaceuticals/Medical Devices. He also started and managed Geneva’s Internet & Telecommunications group for one year. He started Geneva’s activities in a number of countries in Asia and Latin America. His focus was to develop and implement growth strategies. His activities included mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, technology partnerships, financing, business valuation and strategy consulting. Previously, as Director of Technology group, he managed the Teledyne account for three years. He advised Teledyne, Inc. in mergers, acquisitions, financial planning and growing its operating businesses in defense, aerospace, commercial, industrial and specialty metals industries. Prior to that, he developed techniques for valuing companies, divisions of public companies and developed models for LBOs, financings and special situations.

Prior to The Geneva Companies, Mr. Jain worked for four years as a product manager responsible for advanced products at Dassault Systemes and CADAM, Inc. (at the time, a division of IBM and Lockheed). His responsibilities included evaluating and developing new products/ventures based on new and emerging technologies in engineering, software and data management. He also developed joint ventures, strategic relationships and partnerships with third party companies. Prior to that, he worked for six years in various positions at SDRC (at the time a division of GE, later public, then acquired by EDS and now part of Siemens AG), Battelle Memorial Labs and CADAM. His responsibilities included strategy formulation, product development and commercialization of advanced technologies.

Mr. Jain earned Masters degrees in Business Administration and in Engineering from UCLA Anderson School of Management and The University of Rochester, respectively. He specialized in Finance and Business Strategy for his MBA. He was an Engineering Fellow at The University of Rochester. He earned an undergraduate degree in Engineering from The Indian Institute of Technology.