Tim Quast

Founder and President, ModernIR

Tim Quast is an Investor-Relations veteran and founder and President of Modern IR. ModernIR, launched in 2005, pioneered market-structure analytics that quantify the behavior of money behind stock-trading for investor-relations professionals.
 
Previously, Tim served as the first investor relations officer at SureWest Communications (Nasdaq:SURW), and before that, Tim spent six years at retail investor-relations services company Informed Investors, Inc., where he was a co-founder, and President and Chief Operating Officer through its merger with Wilink Plc (PrecisionIR) in 2001.
 
Tim began his capital-markets career in boutique investment banking at QBF Management Co., a private-banking British Virgin Islands firm, after earning a BA at Ambassador University in 1991.
 
A NIRI member since 1995, Tim is a frequent speaker and commentator on modern equity trading. His quotes on modern trading have appeared in leading media including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Financial Times of London, Reuters, Dow Jones, The Denver Post, Traders Magazine, The Securities Technology Monitor, and The New York Times.