About Us

Who We Are

Since 2006, we have built a reputation of an excellent independent data vendor with par excellence product solutions and client services.  We believe in ESG, Responsible, Value-based investing and the synergy yielded in combining investment with social responsibility. IdealRatings Inc. services empower Ethical and Shariah Compliant Fund Managers with web-based intuitive solutions that help them generate the highest alpha available through a tight screening, compliance and purification process. IdealRatings Inc. is proud to serve top-tier investment firms, asset managers, brokerage firms, banks, stock exchanges and asset owners. 

Through its two business lines; ESG & Responsible Investment Solutions and Islamic Finance Solutions, IdealRatings offers the largest universe globally for Equities, Fixed Income, REITs along with custom- built Indexes and purification services. The subscription-based services enable users to access a comprehensive range of data analyzed by our experienced Research Team and based on a proprietary methodology complemented with an intuitive state-of-the-art interface and powerful search capabilities with timely coverage.

Meet the Team

Mohamed Donia

Co-Founder & CEO

Mr. Donia is an entrepreneur, and financial services executive, who Co-Founded IdealRatings in San Francisco in 2006 to become the leading provider serving the Islamic finance industry as well as Social Responsible and ESG investments industry. Today, IdealRatings is known as one of the top global providers serving clients around the world. Prior to IdealRatings Mr. Donia was Co-Founder of Cogency Inc, a silicon valley start-up, where he helped define Cogency solutions for the hedge funds and fund of funds firms to become a leading solution provider with some of the world’s largest hedge funds and fund of funds as clients. Prior to Cogency, Mr. Donia was Vice President of Applications at TenFold corporation, a silicon valley start-up, which IPO’ed on NASDAQ in 1999, where he was responsible for leading customer engagements for Fortune 500 customers in the financial services, banking, insurance, and energy verticals. Mr. Donia held several management positions at PepsiCo, and started his career at Proctor and Gamble. Mr. Donia holds a B.SC in Computer Engineering from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt.

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Magdy Eissa

Vice President – Business Development

Mr. Eissa joined IdealRatings, Inc. in 2010 bringing along extensive knowledge of the financial information industry working closely with global leading investment firms, fund managers, research houses and banks. Prior to IdealRatings, Inc. he was the Regional Manager for ISI Emerging Markets, A Euromoney Institutional Investor Company, responsible for the MENA region. He also spent several years on the product management side while escorting a major expansion for CEIC Macroeconomic databases across the Middle East & African, as well as contributing to the early stages of building IFIS (Islamic Finance Information Service). Magdy holds a BSc. in Business Administration from Egypt along with postgraduate studies in Business Information Technology (BIT) from Middlesex University in London.

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Michael Birks

Director – Europe

Michael joined IdealRatings in 2014 and holds the role of Director – Business Development Europe. Michael has over 30 experience in financial markets as an economist, market analyst and consultant.  He has been involved with IdealRatings as a consultant since the company was founded and has a keen personal and professional interest in responsible and faith-based investing. After an early career in investment banking, he set up and ran the London based financial markets consultancy Adsatis, advising a wide range of clients on sales, data and client strategy. Michael holds an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.

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Abdul-Rahman Hammad

Director – Middle East

Mr. Hammad joined IdealRatings in 2012 and is based in Saudi Arabia. Mr. Hammad has an extensive experience as a Sales Executive severing the financial sector across the Middle East region with a proven track record among top tier institutions. Prior to IdealRatings, Mr. Hammad was a Sales Manager at Advanced Operations Technology, where he was responsible for Identifying and developing new solutions sales and converts them into profitable new business. He also worked for KnowledgeNet as Sales Manager where he was responsible for setting sales strategies to penetrate the market and introducing the company Order Management System for the financial sector in the GCC Region. Abdul-Rahman holds a BSc. in Computer Engineering from Applied Science University in Jordan and MBA from Manchester Business School.

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Mohamed Mokhtar

Vice President – Customer Success

Mr. Mokhtar joined IdealRatings in 2007 and was among the initial team members, employee number 4, of IdealRatings. Mr. Mokhtar has helped build IdealRatings products and client services team to support IdealRatings expansions and support clients around the world. Mr. Mokhtar is currently the global head managing IdealRatings’ clients services division. Mr. Mokhtar has more than 12 years of experience in building financial services solutions and bringing them to the market. Prior to IdealRatings, Mr. Mokhtar worked at ITWorx, a leading solution provider, leading projects to build trading applications and other financial solutions for major financial services institutions. Mr. Mokhtar holds a BSc. in Engineering from Ain Shams University in Egypt and MBA from Maastricht school of management.

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Michael Poisson

Managing Director – North America

Michael Poisson is a Managing Director responsible for IdealRatings’ North American business development based in New York. Prior to joining IdealRatings Mr. Poisson was a Managing Director at Investor Analytics (IA), a Risk Transparency Service for asset managers and asset owners. And, prior to joining IA, Mr. Poisson was Managing Director & Vice President of Sales at Cogency Software a provider of technology solutions to the hedge fund industry, which specialized in accounting for Funds of Hedge Funds. Previously, Mr. Poisson was the Senior Vice President & Managing Director at SunGard Treasury Systems (now Avantgard Treasury), a supplier of internet and intranet treasury and risk management solutions where he was responsible for sales, professional services and client services for North and South America. Mr. Poisson’s additional responsibilities included setting and executing global business strategy and achieving financial objectives. Mr. Poisson is a graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he received a B.S. in Management and was a goalkeeper for the NCAA Division I Champion RPI Engineers hockey team.

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Ariff Sultan

Director – Asia Pacific

Mr. Sultan joined IdealRatings in 2012 and is based in Singapore. He is responsible for the Asian Sales and Operations. Prior to IdealRatings, Ariff was the Regional Director for Russell Indexes and the Business Development Director for Dow Jones Indexes where he developed their conventional and Shariah Index businesses in the Asian markets. He has 17 years of sales experience in financial and banking software where he worked with the leading financial software vendors including Callatay & Wouters, Fair Isaac, London Bridge Group, and Misys Plc. Prior to his sales career, Ariff was a Software Developer and Project Manager for financial software applications with Deloitte and Touché and subsequently with OCBC Bank in Singapore. Ariff was admitted to the degree of Master of Business (IT) with RMIT University in Melbourne and he also attained the Diploma in Islamic Banking and Finance from the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM).

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