Jai Shekhawat
Jai Shekhawat is the Founder and former CEO of Fieldglass, a cloud platform for the management of contingent labor and services. Under his leadership, Fieldglass grew globally with users in 150 countries making it the largest firm worldwide in the Services Procurement Software category. He was Ernst & Young”s 2012 Midwest Entrepreneur of the Year. Fieldglass
was also recognized as the Illinois Venture Capital Associations 2014 Private Equity Portfolio Company of the Year and has received many other awards. The company was acquired by SAP for $1billion. Jai was previously with McKinsey & Company where he served clients in areas of corporate strategy, technology and cross-border alliances. He is also a former senior executive at Syntel, a software services firm in Michigan and a co-founder of Quinnox, an application outsourcing firm in
Chicago, Illinois. Jai is a Trustee and on the Executive Committee of the Field Museum of Chicago, a Trustee of the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, serves on the Board of 1871 (Chicago’s entrepreneurial hub for digital startups) and is a
member of the Commercial Club, the Economic Club of Chicago and a Patron of Indiaspora. He is an adviser to Starvest Partners, Method Capital, Chicago Ventures and Chairs the Technology Advisory Board for Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity firm based in Chicago. He is also a mentor for Duality, the first Quantum Computing Accelerator in the US. He
currently serves on the Boards of FourKites, SomruS and HealthEngine and is a prior board member of Fleet Complete, BlueCat Networks, Utopia, Officeluv, Signal and Highground. He is a founding member of the Firestarter Fund, which mentors and invests in Chicago startups. He has previously served on the Mayor’s Council of Technology Advisers, the
Boards of Tie-Midwest and MetroSquash. He is a frequent speaker onentrepreneurship and strategy at the Kellogg and Booth Business Schools as well as at many industry events. Jai holds an MBA with specializations in finance and strategy from the J.L.
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, and a bachelors degree in management science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India.
