Sumit Jain

Sumit Jain
Sumit Jain, co-founder and CEO of Indian real estate portal Commonfloor.com
Born	13 June 1984
Nationality	Indian
Education	Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Occupation	Co-founder and CEO Commonfloor.com
Home town	Khatauli

Sumit Jain is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur,^[1] He started online real-estate portal commonfloor.com for property seekers in 2007. Prior to that, he used to work with Oracle. As the co-founder and CEO, Sumit is responsible for driving the strategic direction for Commonfloor.com as well as delivering on company goals^[2] His result-oriented approach ensures a constant and relentless focus on end-user satisfaction. Sumit Jain finds solace in a game of billiards. The game not only relaxes him, it also helps him catch up with friends or at times, make new acquaintances.

Early life

Born and brought up in Khatauli, a small town in Uttar Pradesh, India. Sumit's father had a shop where he sold building products, in which he spent most of his time when a child, and sometimes his father left the store under his care for days, telling him not to call him for any reason.^[3]

Career

Sumit graduated as a computer engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 2006. After a short spell with Oracle Server Technologies, he decided to start his own business and in 2007 he started Commonfloor.com with Lalit Mangal and Vikas Malpani.

Awards and recognition

• Fortune 40 Under 40 ^[4]
• Dataquest’s list of the 25 Hot Indian Web 2.0 start-ups^[5]
• Business World Hottest Young Entrepreneurs^[6]
• Listed in Power Profiles in India for the year of 2015.^[7]
• Younger Achiever of the Year 2015' by National Awards for Excellence in Real Estate & Infrastructure ^[8]

See also

• commonfloor.com

References