Theodore Modis

Theodore Modis was born in Florina, a small town in northwestern Greece. At the age of eighteen he won a full scholarship to study in the USA. He received a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Physics, both from Columbia University, New York. He carried out research in particle-physics experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory and afterward at CERN in Europe. Later he switched to the industry and worked at Digital Equipment Corporation as the head of a Management Science consultants group. Ten years later he founded his own consulting company, Growth Dynamics, in Geneva. He is author/co-author to over one hundred articles in scientific and business journals and nine books translated into a number of languages. He has on occasion taught at Columbia University, the University of Geneva, the European business schools INSEAD and IMD, and the leadership school DUXX in Monterrey, Mexico. He has delivered many keynote speeches on a wide range of topics always maintaining a Big-Picture perspective. He has gained worldwide reputation for his expertise in S-curves and his vehement criticism of the Singularity concept. He lives in Lugano, Switzerland. For more info visit www.growth-dynamics.com