Rajesh Navar
Founder and CEO

Rajesh Navar is the founder and CEO of LiveDeal, one of the fastest-growing online classifieds platforms, to which he brings over 12 years experience building high technology and Internet companies. As an original member of the engineering and management teams at eBay and other Internet companies, Rajesh is one of the pioneers in e-commerce. Prior to founding LiveDeal, Rajesh was the 35 th employee and a senior member of the engineering team at eBay where he founded and built eBay’s search team, helping build eBay into one of the world’s most successful and profitable e-commerce companies.

In his role as CEO at LiveDeal, Rajesh is responsible for directing the company's management, employees and operations. Since founding the company in 2003, Rajesh has helped grow LiveDeal’s listings to more than $1 billion in merchandise value with more than one million unique visitors to the site each month.

In September, 2005, Rajesh was honored among Silicon Valley Business Journal’s chronicle of “40 under 40” people to watch.

Rajesh also draws on previous experience as a senior engineer with Integral Development Corporation in Palo Alto, Calif., a start up company focused on the development of software products that enables financial institutions to conduct web-based transactions in capital markets. He also served as a senior software engineer at Neural Applications Corporation in Coralville, Iowa, a start up involved in the development of Internet applications and software and hardware process control systems.

Rajesh holds a Master’s in Business Management (Sloan Fellow) from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University in Bangalore, India.