Our team of over 200 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 Modi, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer.
Shandi has more than 18 years of experience in the financial markets, and has built IDEAglobal from a staff of nine in 1989 to a team of more than 200. Shandi's opinions on international capital flows are sought out by central bankers and hedge funds around the world, and he is a regular presence on CNBC.com and other financial related forums. A graduate of the London School of Economics, Shandi was awarded an honorary doctorate from the same university, which recognizes the firm's strong support.
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.
Mike Gallagher, Senior Partner, Managing Director (London), Director of Research.
Michael has spent 15 years working on high level European policy and market issues. He has worked through the years with many Central Banks and Governments providing guidance on policy and financial market movements. He has also articulated this intelligence and IDEAglobal's cutting edge views to senior figures in the hedge fund and banking communities. Mike is a founding member of the company. Previously, he worked for Money Market Services from 1985 to 1989. He received his MA in economics from Warwick University and his BA in economics from Liverpool University.
John Davitte, Senior Partner, Managing Director (Research).
John has served as the head of emerging markets research since 1994. Prior to joining the company, he worked as an economist for a corporate treasury consultancy. John received an MA in economics from Oxford University.
Dora Vardis, Partner, Vice President of Corporate Finance.
Dora joined IDEAglobal after 10 years in portfolio management, working for American Heritage Management and Thieme Associates as executive vice president, and for Deutsche Bank Capital. She has an MBA from Columbia University and has taught finance at Pace University.
Josh Stiles, Senior Partner, US Fixed Income Product Manager.
Prior to joining IDEAglobal in 1995, Josh was a proprietary bond trader at Nippon Credit Bank. From 1983 to 1989, he was in the same position at Drexel Burnham. Josh served as a long agency trader and government arbitrage trader at Citibank from 1981 to 1983. He began his career in business as a credit analyst at First Fidelity in 1979. Josh received his BA from Amherst College and his MBA in finance from New York University.
