Satish Modi is a philanthropist, businessman and author who divides his time between London and New Delhi. He is respected for his entrepreneurial approach to international business. Modi started India’s first private airline (Modiluft, now known as Spice Jet) in 1993 and in 2013 he founded a Football Club in the U.K. known as Modi Town Football Club. He founded and is on the board of India’s first offshore mutual fund, the J.F. India Fund, which is part of J.P. Morgan Chase.Satish Modi and his wife Abha established the International Institute of Fine Arts (www.iifaindia.org) in 2000 and in 2010 Modi also launched Arts for India, a charity to raise funds to support underprivileged, yet talented artists from India (www.artsforindia.org).
