Our team of over 100 market professionals, business development associates, technical staff, and administrators are led by a global management group that contributes to daily research, operations, and strategic initiatives.

Shandi J. Modi - Founder

Mr Modi has more than 18 years experience in the financial markets, as advisor to governments, policy makers, hedge funds and proprietary traders. He founded IDEAglobal as well as IDEAcarbon. Mr Modi was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the London School of Economics in recognition of his services to the financial industry.

Dr Jagdish Modi

Jagdish is a founding member of the company, supervising its global operations. He also set up IDEA Research Centre, a platform to work in collaboration with academia. Prior to that he was working at Cambridge University, where he published research papers, books in Parallel Computing, and is an editor of scientific journals. Jagdish received respectively BSc, MSc, and PhD, from Aston, Cambridge, and London Universities.