Photo credit: Shanti Jain

Kamal Jain is a first generation American, born to Indian immigrants.  He was born in Camden, New Jersey and has lived in Massachusetts since he was 8 months old.  He grew up in Framingham and Marlborough.  Jain lived in Worcester and Littleton prior to moving to Lowell where he currently lives in the Acre neigborhood.

Kamal Jain 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 had to meet payrolls, get the job done under budget and ahead of deadline, prune waste and inefficiency, hire and fire, lay off employees – and even lay himself off.

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.

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.

Most importantly, Kamal Jain believes the government has a responsibility to provide the people with easy to understand information about spending.  He believes that with access to the information and the tools to work with it, everyone from a fifth grade student to a great-grandparent can understand government spending and identify waste.

Kamal 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?”