Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get, is a popular saying. And Abhishek Jain, CEO of Washington Technology Partners (WTP), is one such person who has painstakingly cared, monitored and nurtured his career. And the results are for everyone to see - today, he is successfully operating a world-class venture capital firm that focuses on middle and early-stage technology and business process outsourcing investments. Not only this, he is also looking after WTP's portfolio and is a man behind the firm's numerous investments.

A BS-cum-laude from Towson State University and a JD from the University of Maryland School of Law, Jain is credited with founding three companies in the past, two of which were successfully acquired and the other has been turned into a profitable venture. A man with multi-faceted personality, Jain has also served as an attorney with Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, where he primarily focused on the technology sector, from representing start-up companies to venture capitalists. He has been advising major technology corporations in their international market penetration.

Significantly, he has companies like AOL, Intel, Futuretech and Emerging Technology Solutions as his clients. Jain, in the past, has served as the president of Megasoft, a publicly traded software solutions company with over three hundred employees and operations in seven countries. He has also served as a consultant to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in connection with training and preparing a group of Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi technology entrepreneurs for business development in the United States.

For the past few years, Jain has been leveraging his experience as a successful principal investor in the software and business services sectors. In fact, prior to co-founding WTP and becoming its CEO, Jain was a Founding Partner in Jones Jain, which was acquired by Greenberg Traurig, LLP in 2000. He currently sits on the boards of several technology companies and charitable organizations. Known to be discreet, talented and a man of unfailing qualities, Jain is also a Governor-appointed member of the Board of the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park.

In fact, Jain has also served as Counsel to the Embassy of India and as the Executive Director of the India Centre. Belonging to tech savvy lawyer breed, Jain is also the chairman of the American College of Technology Lawyers, and is serving on the Board with the chief legal officers of AOL-Time Warner, Intel, Intelsat, Compaq, Ryder Systems, Schering Plough and Gateway. A co-President of the Indian CEO Council and a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), Jain is a co-Founder of the Indian-American Bar Association, which now is the largest South Asian legal organization outside India. Jain's versatility can be judged from the fact that he has also served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Maryland Law School and has been a member of the editorial advisory board of Euromoney's Privatization Opportunities. If Jain's high office, experience and expertise are any indicator, the man is here to stay, making his mighty presence felt to one and all.