Photo credit: Shanti Jain

Kamal Jain is a Massachusetts native who’s been paying taxes since he was 14 years old. He has performed volunteer disaster relief, community activism, and search and rescue work, worked as an emergency medical technician and security guard. Most of his career, however, has been working in high-tech in a variety of roles, predominantly for start-up companies in technology operations and customer service management roles. As a businessman, he has worked extensively with budgets and the challenges they present.

Jain’s twenty-plus years of business and technology experience in the private sector make him uniquely qualified for the role of State Auditor.  His ability to understand both complex systems and human interactions have allowed him to improve service while reducing costs and eliminating waste — concepts foreign to our state government.

Having grown-up in Framingham and Marlborough, Jain currently lives in the Acre neighborhood of Lowell and works for a small company headquartered in Natick.  In his daily travels he finds two questions that many people have in common, regardless of background or education: One, how much money does our state government actually spend?  And, two, who is the elected official with the responsibility to tell them?

Jain believes we can work together to leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of transparency and accountability.  With no ties to the incumbent political parties or the establishment, his loyalty is to the people of Massachusetts.  As a political outsider he has no allegiances to particular state agencies or special interests, and says it is time for honest answers to questions such as “How much did that actually cost?” and “Who is really benefiting from that spending?”

Kamal Jain believes in TOTAL government transparency and accountability for the people of Massachusetts.  He believes the people have a right to know what their government is doing with the people’s money because ALL government spending is done with the people’s money.